Reading+Strategies

R eading S trategies

Once again, students are not born being able to read. While some students will learn to read no matter what we do as educators, many will not. This is where we as teachers can help. I would highly suggest you create a reading guide for parents so they can support you at home. Here is one we created for reading.

Assuming that an EAL/ELL/ESOL student can already read/write in their mother tongue is a big assumption. Many of our students do not have a strong foundation in English, or their mother tongue - especially with reading and writing. So what do we do?

I would suggest we work on these areas
 * 1) vocabulary
 * 2) making connections between vocabulary words/concepts
 * 3) model reading skills
 * 4) provide reading strategies
 * 5) give students ample time to read and talk about what they are reading . L  ots of student-student time reading/discussing reading.

Reading Strategies Here is an amazing site that has many strategies listed by: before, during, and after reading. []

Another site with reading strategies []