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Related: Dyslexia and difficulties with Reading • Teaching PracticesTeach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers By: Elaine K. McEwan To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and visualizing-organizing. This article includes definitions of the seven strategies and a lesson-plan template for teaching each one. To assume that one can simply have students memorize and routinely execute a set of strategies is to misconceive the nature of strategic processing or executive control. Such rote applications of these procedures represents, in essence, a true oxymoron-non-strategic strategic processing.— Alexander and Murphy (1998, p. 33)
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What Is Dyslexia? As with other learning disabilities, dyslexia is a lifelong challenge that people are born with. This language processing disorder can hinder reading, writing, spelling and sometimes even speaking. Dyslexia is not a sign of poor intelligence or laziness. It is also not the result of impaired vision. Children and adults with dyslexia simply have a neurological disorder that causes their brains to process and interpret information differently. What Every Teen with a Learning Disability Should Know Most teenagers struggle with their self-image. Teens with learning disabilities have more concerns because they know they have more learning difficulty than others. Feelings of embarrassment, failure, low-self esteem, and worry about the future are common. While teens and parents may avoid talking about learning disabilities at all, many teens benefit from learning more about their learning differences. Here are some quick facts you should teach your child about his learning disability.
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List-Group-Label strategy from Reading Rockets encourages students to think about words and work cooperatively to organize and understand new vocabulary. Reading Rockets has many versatile strategies for ELLs that include videos of lessons and downloads. by c.williams Jul 22
This website has quite a lot of strategies for comprehension. The thing that I like about this site is that the strategies are divided by: before reading, during reading, and after reading. This division is very helpful for teacher looking for strategies to implement in their classrooms. by mlopezflores Mar 10
Each strategy in the library includes: instructions on how to use the strategy, downloadable templates, examples, recommended children's books to use with the strategy; differentiation for second-language learners, students of varying reading skill, students with learning disabilities, and younger learners; supporting research. The chart lists all of the strategies currently in the library, with guidance on when to use each strategy. by mcussen Feb 24