Reading Strategies

Communication and reading go hand in hand. I feel that being able to speak our language clearly will enable a person to become a great reader. Both of these aspects of students build off of each other. This is why I feel that reading strategies are important for a student to become successful. The two strategies that interest me the most are the "KWL" and summarizing. These two strategies are important to the assignments that my students would be doing in the classroom. One of the assignments would be what the students want to do in the future. This includes college, family, living style and things of that nature. I observed a lesson last semester from my teacher where she incorporated these strategies. She used the "KWL" strategy to get the students on track and finding out more about their future careers. Then she used the summarizing strategy, where the students would give a small presentation in what they found. I feel that teaching my students these and many more strategies will help them with assignments like these. I believe these strategies will also help me in my teaching and coaching career.