Question: What are the
effects of teaching students reading strategies?
Answer/Quote: “Comprehension
difficulties are often related to readers’ failure to participate actively in
the reading process. Teaching students to become more strategic when they read
increases their understanding of important textual information, as well as
their motivation.” P. 132.
Comment: Students feel as if they are more in control
of what they are doing when they have strategies for preparing themselves for
reading, as in the FLIP strategy (Friendliness, Language, Interest, and Prior
Knowledge) for assessing the difficulty of a reading assignment in a content
area (Schumm and Mangrum), for dealing with difficult material, for helping to
remember key vocabulary words, etc. A strategy is not a skill; It’s a method
for dealing with a situation in reading or writing or spelling, etc. RayS.
Title:
“Self-Questioning and Prediction: Combining Metacognitive Strategies.” TE
Nolan. Journal of Reading (October 1991), 132-138.
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