Reading techniques

 Reading techniques

1. Scanning: A reading skill that obtains info that is necessary or of interest to the reader only.

2. Skimming: A reading skill that obtains info that is of personal interest. 

3. Skipping. Leaving parts out. Jumping to the outstanding part only.

4. Decoding is a foundational reading skill that uses phonetics to understand meaning. Students begin by pronouncing words without having seen how it's spelled. Building phonological awareness facilitates the use of rhyming, sounds, and songs, which can in turn help students use decoding strategies.

5. Building vocabulary is a key for learners as they build their comprehension skills. Practice new words with students to increase their vocabulary. Learners advanced or beginners even mothertoung speakers gain confidence in their reading abilities when they learn how to pronounce and spell unfamiliar words.

6. Reading fluency. The greatest obstacle to fluency is word recognition. It can take several tries before a student recognizes a word and knows its meaning. Read books often to build reading fluency. Putting words together to write a cohesive sentence remains a top skill. Frequent lessons in sentence structure and grammar reinforce reading and writing skills.

7. Memory and focused attention. Helps improve memory and attention through games and activities. Memory games. Vocabulary research. Vocab studies. If you love educational games, you're likely to progress much faster. Underline the words you don´t know while reading and then come back to find the meaning and study them. Don´t do this while you are reading but underline with a pencil. Some students like to underline in different colors to classify the words in groups. (Word families, Semantic fields,etc.)

8. Past experiences and prior knowledge are great building blocks in helping to get the gist of a word or phrase. Build knowledge through reading, learning more about art, watching TV shows, and having meaningful conversations.

9. Reading out loud even when on your own alone at home can improve phonology (Intonation, Pronunciation, Emphasis, Tone, Phonetics, Phonemics, and Pace).

10. Reading along. Many books are available in spoken e.g. at https://librivox.org/ you may want to listen while you are reading along. This is good practice for those you want to improve "Reading".