Teaching Strategies to Increase Your Student's Listening Skills

Topic Sentences: Each paragraph stands for one main idea. Students are asked to find the topic sentence and explain how it describes the whole reading passage and the given paragraph.
Guessings: Read the text (skimming the text for general information) to see if the guessings and predictions are met.
Scanning: Students look for specific information from the text. Learners may be also asked to write comprehension questions for their peers.

3.Post-reading activities These activities mainly aim at integrating the target material into the real-life and personalized practice in order to keep the authentic use of the language, make the learners feel that whatever they learn they turn into real-life experience in terms of language use.

Discussions: Learners are divided into groups and are given a set of text-related questions to discuss. Questions may be about some characters, their behaviour, how the text has interested the students, what they have learned from it, etc.

Story Continuation: Students may be given some time to think and come up with the continuation of the story. They may change some traits of the main characters and imagine how the text would proceed to take into account those changes.

Statements: Students are given statements about the reading topic, they work in pairs and discuss them.

12. In order to select reading material with appropriate contents, it is necessary to take the students' interests and needs into account. This can be done by asking the students to make a list of topics that they will study in their specific fields or that they would like to read for fun.
Reading materials for the classroom
1Influences on selecting Reading programs, materials
2.Strategies for Assessing Reading materials
3Selecting Grade-Appropriate Texts
4Measuring Text complexity
5Choosing Culturally Diverse Texts for the classroom
6Teaching students to select diverse texts

13. 6 Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension

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   Have them read aloud.This encourages them to go slower, which gives them more time to process what they read and in turn improves reading comprehension. Plus, they're not only seeing the words — they're hearing them, too! You can also take turns 
   
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   Provide books at the right level. Make sure your school-aged reader gets lots of practice reading books that aren't too hard. They should recognize at least 90 percent of the words without any help. Stopping any more often than that to figure out a word makes it tough for kids to focus on the overall meaning of the story.
   
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   Reread to build fluency. To gain meaning from text and encourage reading comprehension, your child needs to read quickly and smoothly — a skill known as fluency. By the beginning of 3rd grade, for example, your child should be able to read 90 words a minute
   
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   Talk to the teacher. If your child is struggling with reading comprehension, they may need more help with building their vocabulary or practicing phonics skills. (This Pokémon Phonics Boxed Set and this Pete the Cat Phonics Box Set are fun ways to help your child build necessary phonics skills.) A teacher can weigh in on the best next steps to take.
   
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   Supplement their class reading. If your child's class is studying a particular theme, look for easy-to-read books or magazines on the topic. Some prior knowledge will help them make their way through tougher classroom texts and promote reading comprehension.
   
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   Talk about what they're reading. This "verbal processing" helps them remember and think through the themes of the book. Ask questions before, during, and after a session to encourage reading comprehension.
   

14. It is believed that authentic materials provide learners with exposure to more natural English and more discourse features than are presented in an average textbook and will expose learners to content that will help prepare them for upper-level and seminar coursework. Authentic materials provide real-life examples of language used in everyday situations. They can be used to add more interest for the learner. They can serve as a reminder to learners that there is an entire population who use the target language in their everyday lives. Authentic material is any material written in English that was not created for intentional use in the English language classroom. Using this content to teach the English language can make the learning process even more engaging, imaginative and motivating for students

15. Invite students to socialize around reading. Set up book clubs, reading groups, literature circles. Many students need to interact with each other around texts. It greatly enhances their comprehension and makes literacy in the classroom so much more enjoyable.