Research has shown that reading comprehension is not passive and for students to become effective readers appropriate reading strategies need to be taught. Winch, 2010 pg93 has presented Block and Parris (2008) nine successful strategies for teaching effective reading comprehension.
Block and Parris nine successful strategies:
1. Apply general world knowledge, knowledge of other texts and personal experiences
2. Size up the text in advance by looking at titles, text features such as layout or print, pictures and captions.
3. Decode and derive meaning from words, phrases and sentences.
4. Stop to reread when the meaning is unclear
5. Reflect on the text before, during and after reading to adjust and correct the meaning
6. Construct meanings by generating mental pictures where relevant
7. Approach the text with attention to genre (text-type). Consider setting, characters, story and othr features of fiction and poetry.
8. Give attention to various features of non-fiction text types and how they affect meaning
9. Find main ideas, summarise, and draw conclusions.
Reading comprehension strategies are 'thinking processes that can be used before, during and after reading' (Hill, 2012) and you can teach more then one strategy at a time!
Block and Parris nine successful strategies:
1. Apply general world knowledge, knowledge of other texts and personal experiences
2. Size up the text in advance by looking at titles, text features such as layout or print, pictures and captions.
3. Decode and derive meaning from words, phrases and sentences.
4. Stop to reread when the meaning is unclear
5. Reflect on the text before, during and after reading to adjust and correct the meaning
6. Construct meanings by generating mental pictures where relevant
7. Approach the text with attention to genre (text-type). Consider setting, characters, story and othr features of fiction and poetry.
8. Give attention to various features of non-fiction text types and how they affect meaning
9. Find main ideas, summarise, and draw conclusions.
Reading comprehension strategies are 'thinking processes that can be used before, during and after reading' (Hill, 2012) and you can teach more then one strategy at a time!