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Crash Course in 3 Key Reading Strategies
Class experience
US Grade 9 - 12
What can students do when they must read an unfamiliar text with new vocabulary? How can students find a way "in" to a text that seems boring or technical at first, or that was written in a different time period? Strong readers have a set of tools they can apply to a variety of situations to help them not only "get" the text, but engage with it. In this one-time class, I teach students three key reading strategies: - Questioning - Monitoring Understanding - Making Inferences. These are key...
Students will learn and practise the following reading strategies: - Questioning - Monitoring Understanding - Making Inferences
I have been teaching English, Social Science, and Special Education in a large public school district for 15 years. The three reading skills I teach here are part of a larger set of reading strategies that reading specialists consider essential for cross-curricular literacy. I recommend the following resource to parents who are interested in learning more: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? 3rd edition. by Vicki Urquhart and Dana Frazee.
It's a good idea for students to have pen or pencil and paper handy to write down any words they don't understand as we read the story together.
Content warning: The story we will read in class is "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. In this story, the protagonist learns that her husband has suddenly died. Please also note that the message of the story is critical of marriage as it existed in 19th-century America.
The Course image is called "Reading List", is by KJGarbutt, and is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Sharing stories helps the world go 'round! I am a Certified Secondary School Teacher with 15 years of classroom teaching experience in English, Social Science, and Special Education. I have a particular passion for engaging with students about...
Group Class
$18
per classMeets once
60 min
Completed by 3 learners
Live video meetings
Ages 14-18
3-8 learners per class