Name at least 5 things that teachers should keep in mind when teaching reading and study skills to adolescents. Explain why you think these methods and strategies are unique to adolescents
What will be an ideal response?
5. *Build on student strengths while simultaneously working to lessen the weaknesses
*Material should be interesting and at instructional level
*Use direct and functional reading approaches
*Use of reading skills in real-life tasks
*Integrate content instruction with the teaching of reading skills that are essential or acquiring the content
*Teachers need to be aware that older students need to develop study skills and increase reading rate in addition to increasing decoding and comprehension skills
*Use instructional time efficiently
*Remediate early, strategically, and often
*Teach less but do so more thoroughly
*Teach reading strategies explicitly
*Use a balance of teacher-directed and student-centered activities
*Evaluate progress frequently to determine the effectiveness of instruction
[Students' responses will vary as to why they think these methods and strategies are unique to adolescents.]
You might also like to view...
Refer to Exhibit 10-9. Students falling below the 10th percentile on a reading achievement test later receive higher scores on a similar test; students above the 90th percentile receive lower scores on the second test administration
a. experimental mortality b. reactive effect of testing c. statistical regression d. maturation e. instrumentation
Indexes that describe the dispersion of measures in a group are known as measures of
a. central location. b. variability. c. correlation. d. interaction. e. individual location.
The difficulty level at which a learner reads comfortably without teacher help is the:
a. instructional reading level. b. independent reading level. c. frustration reading level. d. None of the above.
. A first semester Research Methods student believes that males have faster reaction times because they play more video games. This is an example of a(n) ______?
a. heuristic b. hypothesis c. schema d. error