Module 6: Readings

Supporting Beginning Readers In Reading to Learn: A Comprehension Strategy: 

This article was very interesting to read I like how it explained the five steps to strategize reading comprehension.

• Activating background knowledge.
• Questioning
• Analyzing text structure
• Visualization
• Summarizing

Children’s reading comprehension fails because either the writing is boring, the story isn’t engaging, they just simply aren’t interested in the text, the text is beyond their understanding, or they simply just lose energy and don’t give the effort to understand.

I liked how the article gave out strategies to teach comprehension effectively. I took out some important points from the article so when I become a teacher I can use these strategies to help my students who are struggling with comprehension.

The Roles Of Photography For Developing Literacy Across The Disciplines:  

I have always been a visual learner, I think it is important for a teacher to incorporate visuals in all lessons for students to understand it better. I believe that photography is one of the most effective ways to develop literacy and get students to really appreciate it.  Visual learning strategies help students better understand and retain information.

With visual learning, new concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood when they are linked to prior knowledge. Students can use diagrams and plots to display large amounts of information in ways that are easy to understand and help reveal relationships and patterns.

This was one of my favorite articles. I really enjoyed reading it because I could relate to it, and I also have a few younger cousins who need those visuals to comprehend words or to understand certain lessons better.

Text Structure Strategies For Improving Expository Reading Comprehension:  

I really liked the strategies that were pointed out about expository reading comprehension in this article. Most expository texts are structured to facilitate the study process for prospective readers.

Expository text examples include new articles, informational books, instruction manuals, or text books. Text structure/ Text frames