explicit teachingThink aloud making thinking strategies transparent. This way teachers help students to set reading goals. This approach involves using prompts of what, why, how and when during reading.
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reciprocal TeachingTeachers give demonstration on how predicting, questioning, summarising and clarifying can be used to understand text.
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Text structure
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''The approaches to teaching text structure have exhibited substantial variability beginning with general attempts to sensitise students to structural element, extending to hierarchical summaries of key ideas and to visual representation of key ideas, such as conceptual maps, semantic networks, charts and graph''(Duke &Pearson, 2002, p. 217). This involves developing understanding of following elements of the text.
· Chronological(time order)
· Cause and effect
· Compare and contrast
· Problem and solution
· Sequence/process
· Spatial/descriptive
· Chronological(time order)
· Cause and effect
· Compare and contrast
· Problem and solution
· Sequence/process
· Spatial/descriptive