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Strategies for struggling readers

1. 5 Strategies In Middle School FOR STRUGGLING READERS Rizalina C. Labanda

2. Why Do Students Struggle with Reading? If you have students who are struggling to read, go back to the basics of SOR: fluency, vocabulary , and comprehension . In middle school, you probably notice struggles with fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Reading is way more than being able to sound out letters on a page. STRATEGY

3. How to Help Struggling Readers in the Classroom

4. students summarizing has one of the biggest effects on comprehension requires students to consider all the information they’ve read and identify the most important points It also can’t be done without solid comprehension of what you’ve read #1 Utilize Summarization Research Tells Us that - Reading Comprehension Strategies After reading, have students summarize what they read, focusing on the main points. Explicitly teaching summarization by modeling the process for students and  using mentor texts .

5. #1 Utilize Summarization Brown and company reasoned that summarization requires six basic steps: Reading Comprehension Strategies Delete trivial information Delete redundant information Substitute superordinate terms for lists Substitute superordinate terms for series of events Select a topic sentence Invent a topic sentence (if the text doesn’t include one)

6. ‘You can see some small things with your eyes. With a microscope, however, you can see much smaller details. Think of a butterfly’s wing. You can see it with your eyes. But a microscope can show you small parts of the wing called scales’ Identify the big idea.

7. ‘ You can see some small things with your eyes. With a microscope, however, you can see much smaller details. Think of a butterfly’s wing. You can see it with your eyes. But a microscope can show you small parts of the wing called scales’ Identify the big idea. Get rid of the information that is not very important to remember.

8. ‘ You can see some small things with your eyes. With a microscope, however, you can see much smaller details. Think of a butterfly’s wing. You can see it with your eyes. But a microscope can show you small parts of the wing called scales’ Identify the big idea. Get rid of the information that is not very important to remember.

9. ‘ You can see some small things with your eyes. With a microscope, however, you can see much smaller details. Identify the big idea. Get rid of the information that is not very important to remember. Turn these sentences into a single sentence on your own.

10. ‘Microscope let you see things so small that you can’t see them with just your eyes.’ Identify the big idea. Get rid of the information that is not very important to remember. Turn these sentences into a single sentence on your own.

11. ‘You can see some small things with your eyes. With a microscope, however, you can see much smaller details. Think of a butterfly’s wing. You can see it with your eyes. But a microscope can show you small parts of the wing called scales’ ‘Microscope let you see things so small that you can’t see them with just your eyes.’

12. #1 Utilize Summarization Another tool you can use is the SWBST: Reading Comprehension Strategies S – Somebody (Character) W – Wanted (Goal) B – But (Problem) S – So (Facing the obstacle) T – Then (How the story resolved) It’s very concrete and manageable for them to find or infer the relevant information, and then use it to write one sentence summary.

13. The pigs WANTED to build their homes and live in peace, BUT the wolf was trying to eat them and destroyed 2 of their houses in the process, SO the pigs all piled into their sibling’s sturdy brick house, THEN they captured the wolf in a pot of boiling water and were never disturbed again.’

14. being explicit makes learning more accessible and promotes higher-level thinking because it creates a really solid foundation for students learning. If you have students struggling in your classroom, take it way back to the basics and teach them explicitly #2 Get Explicit Research tells us that - This can be done through scaffolding learning into bite-sized chunks, modeling the process, providing feedback on learning, and more. It also involved a gradual release, so students slowly take on more challenging tasks. Reading Comprehension Strategies

15.  This isn’t a natural skill for students, but you can model it by stopping and asking questions during whole class readings or even small group reading . #3 Implement Self Monitoring The students check in on themselves, and they stop to ask questions. It’s a lot easier to course correct when a student finds themselves lost a few paragraphs in rather than after they’ve read a whole chapter.  STRATEGY Reading Comprehension Strategies

16. teach vocabulary using word parts and context clues. Explicitly teach students how to use context clues. For example, stop while reading and model the process for students. Take time to talk about roots, prefixes, and suffixes. #4 Teach Word Parts and Context Clues No more drill-and-kill vocabulary. Students don’t learn by memorizing words or writing them down on a sheet of paper. So, if you want to improve comprehension, you need solid vocabulary strategies. Research says - Reading Comprehension Strategies

17. This is a well-researched strategy for building comprehension based on students’ prior knowledge. #5 Make Connections For struggling readers, being able to connect not only shows that they comprehend what they’ve read but also deepens their understanding. This is the foundation of being able to synthesize, which is where students move into critical thinking. STRATEGY Reading Comprehension Strategies

18. Overview of Assessment at the Secondary Level

19. Conducting Assessments Allows Teachers to: Identify students who need additional support or intervention. Determine an instructional focus for each student. Determine how to group students appropriately for instruction. Plan instruction according to student strengths and needs on an ongoing basis. Monitor student progress toward goals. Evaluate the outcomes of instruction. Reading Comprehension Strategies

20. Guide to Reading Assessment for Secondary Assessment Administering beginning of the year (BOY) assessments, consisting of screening measures and diagnostic assessments. Use diagnostic assessments to group students and determine an instructional focus.

21. Set short-term goals with students. Adapt instructional content, activities, materials and delivery of instruction when needed. Conduct middle and end of the year (MOY) (EOY). Assessment. Monitor progress of each student receiving intervention to determine any needed changes to grouping or any instructional focus.

22. Why do students Struggle with Comprehension Lack of effective strategies to help them understand, organize, and remember information. Lack of adequate knowledge of word meaning. Lacks the ability to read fluently enough to understand and remember what they are reading. Lacks the ability to accurately decode the words. Lack of interest or motivation to read. Reading Comprehension Strategies

23. The Sequence of Assessment

24. Elementary Sequence of Assessment Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Word Reading/Decoding Phonemic Awareness

25. Secondary Sequence of Assessment Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Word Reading/Decoding

26. 5 Strategies In Middle School FOR STRUGGLING READERS Rizalina C. Labanda Thank You!