A few ideas for develop reading skills of older students.

1. Strategies to Develop Reading and Writing Skills:
Making Teaching Explicit and Systematic
Are these strategies familiar to all your staff? How often are they being used to achieve your literacy
outcomes and develop content/skills in your subjects? Ratings: Consistently, Often, Sometimes, Rarely
Column 1 – I use it Column 2 – teachers in my faculty use it Use U if the strategy is unfamiliar
Strategy COSR COSR
Structured overview
Cloze passages
Dictagloss
Previewing text
Prior knowledge
- Predicting
- Anticipation guide
Skimming and scanning text
Reading for gist
Grammar analysis in context
Scaffolding
Graphic organisers
- PMT, KWL, Venn diagrams
- mind/concept map, word
- web/wheel, think, pair share
Presentation of data in graphical form
- maps, tables, charts,
Building technical vocabulary
- word/spelling lists
- grids comparing everyday/technical
Round robin/carousel activities
- pass the paragraph
Retelling
Text reconstruction
- sequencing
Note-making
Text types with scaffolds
Writing process - checklists
- Proofreading (CUPS)
Jigsaw
Problem solving/finding
Three level guide
Rubrics and marking guides
CUPS – capitalisation, U – grammar Usage, P – punctuation, S – spelling
ACE – Answer the question, Cite evidence, Extend and explain
Are you interested in using acronyms of this kind?
What strategies do good readers/writers use?
Reviewed February 2010