Developing Reading Skills across the Curriculum

Re-imagining Comprehensions Old style comprehensions have their place in developing reading skills , often requiring students to search for information or ideas.

Comprehending the next generation

It is all about identifying different ways for the students to interact with texts.

Reading Visual TextsVisual and moving-image texts can be subjected to the same level of active, engaged reading and questioning. In doing so we can develop the skills of the student still further.

Decoding difficult wordsGuessing: What might that word mean? Accepting partial understa: What do you think is the gist? Leave that bit and come back to it. Testing out: Have a guess at that bit and see if it goes on to make sense. Re-reading: Go back, read that bit again carefully. Visualising: Can you picture…? What might a _________ look like? Referring to prior knowledge: What do you know about…? Where have you come across the word…? Reading aloud: If you try reading that sentence aloud, what’s the most important word? Translating: What is another word for __________? Referring to examples: If you think of … then does that help you to…?

Release the text slowlyEffective for securing attention, encouraging questioning and predictions.

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Instead of researching what the media do to the audience, this approach studies what the audience does with the media. This approach also takes account of people’s personalities and personalneeds.

Text SequencingGood for focusing on chronology, on procedure or on structure.