No matter what text we assign, kids need to be taught how to read it.Remember how many hours you spent trying to decipher the materials for your toughest college course. Think about what strategies you employed to get the work done. Did you reread? Take notes? Highlight? Write in the margins? Research sections you didn't understand? Someone taught you how to do all of those things, so now it's time to teach your students, no matter what your subject. The list below should remind us that our students are novice readers, and they need our support. It is the work of Cris Tovani, author of several excellent books about teaching reading, including I Read It But I Don't Get It and Do I Really Need to Teach Reading?. The pdf below digs deeper into specific, concrete strategies you can use to help students monitor their reading. We are all reading teachers!
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