AVReading March: Reading Strategies
As part of our year long focus on teaching strategies, I am going to focus my attention this month on reading. Of course, it is not an extensive examination of good reading strategies to use in your class. However, they are the strategies that I have more recently been using with students in response to data trends and things that I have noticed within classes. Before getting into the strategies, let me start with some things that reading research has established as good practice. First, engagement and motivation matter with reading. Since we are asking students to do something that is cognitively demanding and rigorous, we have to do what we can to engage them as best we can. There are numerous ways to do this like giving more choice to readings, having really good pre-reading activities, and using powerful and interes...