Struggling+Readers+-+Group+6

There are certain strategies that each teacher can use in his or her content area to help struggling readers. Some of these strategies include: Read aloud sessions - an effective way for students to acquire academic language. The way books are written differ from teacher or student conversations in class. There is typically more academic language in books. Comprehend aloud sessions - This strategy includhas having short pauses during reading to allow students to reflect upon what they have read. These pauses may include small group discussion with prompts from the teacher. Improv read aloud - This is, more or less, a way of allowing students to visualize the text by acting out the story as they read. Students may become the characters in the text, or read with an interesting accent. The possibilities are limitless. Lyric summaries - peers or groups read a text and then create a summary that goes to a common tune. It works best to choose the tune and then to build a summary from there.

Specific reasons that students might struggle with reading or reading comprehension:  History (Brett) - Within history texts there is a lot of academic language and geographical locations that students might no be familiar with. This can make comprehension difficult. Spanish (Josiah) - Students are absolutely unfamiliar with the vocab in my texts. They have no idea how to pronounce them, and comprehension is minimal.