Reading Comprehension Strategies

Strategies: How to write your own strategy for embedding measurement into your programme

Mar 27, 2017

—

by

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Measurement, Measuring, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

If you are going to focus on measurement, it makes sense to combine this with a focus on number as well. For example, many learners need to strengthen their knowledge of our number system and how place value works if they have to use metric measurement and related calculations in their trade. In other words,…

Strategies: How to write your own strategy for embedding number skills into your programme

Mar 27, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Numeracy, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

Time to do some work It’s your turn again. Design your own numeracy strategy by choosing from the options below. Download the worksheet to record your ideas. As always, you can skip ahead to the Assessment template and get started on this part right away. For your assessment, you only need to focus on one…

Strategies: How do you write a numeracy strategy?

Mar 27, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

If you know what you’re going to write for your numeracy strategy, feel free to skip ahead to the assessment template and get started. If you want to walk through the process again for numeracy, please read on. As with your literacy strategy, there should be three parts. The process is the same as before.…

Strategy: Thinking more deeply about your literacy strategy

Mar 25, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

In order for your literacy strategy to be effective, you need to consider your answers to the following questions. These are all on the worksheets and are the same as what you’ll find in your assessment template. Here’s a list of the questions below. Then we’ll work through each one. If you know what to…

Strategy: How to write your own strategy for embedding writing

Mar 25, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Uncategorized

This time you need to create your own strategy for embedding writing into your programme. You can download it here if you need it. Choose one or two items from the box and then add your own context below. Write out a final draft summarising your strategy. If you need to, make any changes to…

Strategies: How to write your own strategy for embedding reading

Mar 25, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

Time to do some work It’s your turn. Design your own literacy strategy by choosing from the options below. Download our worksheet to record your ideas if you want to. Alternatively, you can skip ahead to the Assessment template and get started on this part right away. Have a play with the ideas here, but keep…

Strategies: What are some examples of literacy strategies?

Mar 24, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

Here are some examples of literacy strategies developed by tutors for embedding literacy into their programmes. These are one sentence summaries. You’ll need to write something similar. Teach my learners how to read with understanding with a focus on technical vocabulary and comprehension strategies in the context of my fitness and sports science programme. Teach…

Strategies: How do you write a literacy strategy?

Mar 24, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

A good programme-level strategy should feel broad in scope. It should be broad enough that you can apply the strategy to your programme over time. But it should also set some more specific direction in terms of what kinds of skills you’re hoping to develop. We think there should be three parts to your strategy.…

Strategies: What are your broad strategies for literacy and numeracy?

Mar 24, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Strategy, Uncategorized

You’ve had some time to think about your own context for teaching, and to look at what opportunities and constraints you’re facing. Now you need to design at least two broad strategies that you intend to use for embedding literacy and numeracy into your programme. These should be “big picture”, high-level strategies that apply across…

Strategies: What are your opportunities & constraints?

Mar 24, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Context, Contextualised, Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, New Zealand Context, NZ Context, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Strategies, Uncategorized

In order to develop some working strategies for embedding literacy and numeracy, you need to do an analysis of opportunities and constraints. This means looking at the opportunities that might be in front of you for embedding, but also what the potential roadblocks or barriers are as well. As part of this, we need you…

Category: Reading Comprehension Strategies