Incorporating Strategy Training into Reading Instruction

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The reading strategies employed by proficient readers during a reading process have long been under the scrutiny of researchers .They have come to this realization that reading ability will greatly be enhanced when learners adopt a wide range of reading strategies. Besides being invaluable tools for the learners, strategies are quite insightful as they can reveal to the teacher whether the students have deeply understood the new lesson or not. In order to help those readers who experience less success in their reading ability, teachers should implement appropriate reading strategies through various tasks. This paper discusses how strategy training can be employed in the classrooms and enumerates different strategy training activities based on a learner-centered approach, which can help learners gain fluency in the reading skill and become successful independent readers. It also emphasizes the significant role of teachers. If they do not explain, model or reinforce the strategies, the students do not learn to identify, practice, evaluate and transfer strategies to a new learning context and may not become aware that they are using strategies at all

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