Teaching Reading

Have you tried cloze technique to build reading comprehension?  The idea is simple: Efficient readers actually don’t read every word in a passage.  They make predictions and then check their expectations against the text that is actually there.  The more effective the predictions, the less frequently the reader needs to stop and actually decode the [...]

Here’s a teaching method that can be a life-saver for teachers working with struggling students, limited resources, or unmotivated pupils.  Language Experience is a broad term that basically means that each student’s own language is used as a basis for teaching reading and language arts skills.
The basic idea is this: If a student can put [...]