Teaching Reading with the Change Agent

​Teaching reading: strategies & methods

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• Read aloud to students.

• Provide opportunities for students to read, write and talk about texts.

• Read texts repeatedly to support fluency.

• Teach the tools to figure out words they don’t know.

• Provide time for studying spoken language, including vocabulary and spelling.

• Use prior knowledge to make connections.

• Predict

• Visualize

• Summarize

• Teach critical thinking skills