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- Strategic instruction in reading is an educational approach aimed at providing rules or guidelines to help individuals approach reading tasks more effectively, efficiently and independently.
- A strategy is an individual's approach to a task. It includes how a person thinks and acts when planning, executing, and evaluating the performance of a task and its outcomes.
- Most learners employ strategies for a wide variety of tasks in their daily lives, including reading comprehension.
- Reading comprehension strategies are procedures that help readers gain meaning from different texts, for different reasons, while experiencing varying degrees of difficulty.
- In order for a technique to meet the criteria of a strategy, it has to be effective for the student, constitute an efficient use of the student's time and energy, and be in the student's control, meaning that the student can use it independently.
- Knowledge is information you have; a skill is something you can do; a strategy is a deliberate attempt to use knowledge and skills wisely.
- Goal-specific strategies are the techniques readers use to process specific material.
- Students use monitoring strategies to help decide if they are understanding what they are reading and whether or not they should continue, discontinue, or modify the strategy being used to achieve a desired outcome.
- Higher-order sequencing strategies are the super organizers that help the user integrate the use of goal-specific strategies with monitoring strategies to create a total strategic approach to reading comprehension.
- Metacognition enables us to deploy suitable strategies to deal effectively with the demands of the task at hand by subjecting our own thoughts to scrutiny.
- There are three major components involving metacognition in strategy acquisition and use: metacognitive knowledge, self-regulation and motivation.
- Good readers coordinate metacognitive knowledge and put it to work with self-regulation.
- The function of self-regulation is to analyze a reading task in order to select an approach, monitor the course of reading, and, if necessary, adjust or revise the strategic approach.
- Students who have language difficulties may have trouble learning and using specific reading strategies, especially those with high language demands.
- Often teachers assess how well students comprehend material by asking questions about what they've read but neglect to teach them how to comprehend more effectively by using strategies.
- Although strategic instruction in reading comprehension is important for all students, it is absolutely essential for students with learning disabilities.
- The teacher's role in strategic instruction falls into three main categories: engineering the environment, teaching strategies as part of the curriculum, and employing effective teaching tactics.
- Conditions must be constructed in the classroom to facilitate and enhance strategic learning and performance, regardless of the teacher's specific grade level or subject expertise.
- A goal of any curriculum should be to develop thoughtful readers who plan selectively, monitor comprehension while reading, and reflect on process and content after reading.
- If you are unsure about how much structure or intensity to provide, err on the side of too much, rather than not enough.
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