Content reading and writing

Strategies to promote reading comprehension are grouped into three categories. They are prereading, during reading, and post reading. However, I will only be discussing prereading and during reading strategies.

Prereading strategies build a purpose and background for reading. Some techniques are simplying telling students why they are reading a particular text and what they will do with the information later. Building background through films, movies, video clips, newpaper articles, and field trips help students organize schema for the upcoming lesson. Students can also plays games or simulate situations at have real life implications.

During reading strategies building questions from the subheadings and headings and making sure that students read these. Doing this well help students create a purpose for reading.Clustering is an example where synonyms can be placed outside a main word and then students have to guess what word is in the middle and the word in the middle can come from the text. This can helps students generate meaning in context. Jigsawing activities and learning logs area also during reading activities for monitoring comprehension. Learning logs require students to formulate questions about what they think or puzzling over. This helps students assess their learning and also helps them get help. If many students are formulating similar questions than the teacher can discuss it to the entire class.