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Clean and simple infographic on reading comprehension strategies. Could be good to post in your classrooms or print out for students.

strategy for error correction

Students can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.

Excellent ideas for helping students retain vocabulary. Some are content specific (i.e., scientific words) and yes, I think adult students are past coloring :-), but there are other options in here which would work with adult students.

Very interesting ideas involving teaching reading comprehensive / strategies through physical activities (not just sitting silently at desks and reading). All look adaptable for adult learners.

Assessment alternatives to quizzes/tests

Excellent article with in-class strategies and suggestions about developing strong student/teacher relationships, and the positive effects of such relationships.

Study is on ESL high school students but believe some of the findings could be applied to our more challenged readers as well

Free to register; lots of lesson plans about teaching various reading comprehension strategies. More explicit than Pathways in teaching skills.

Rethinking homework approaches & strategies for today's learners

Not much revolutionary here, but points 3 & 4 are good reminders of the importance of connecting English to real world uses and of the value of fomulative assessments like exit slips, etc.

Ideas for getting students up and moving around while still working...3 hours is a long time to sit!

Ideas for getting students up and moving around while still working...3 hours is a long time to sit!

Simple summarizing activity

Really interesting website for teachers and students. From their "About" section: "This site aims to provide students and teachers with information and ideas to assist them apply the Habits of Mind. Each of the sixteen habits is presented along with information on when to use each habit and strategies to make the process easy. Each page includes a short video that demonstrates the Habit of Mind and could be used as a starting point for discussion."

Written for K-12, most points are even more salient for adult learners, especially regarding tying content into real life applications. How many of our students ask "why am I learning to write a persuasive essay? I'm studying computer engineering".

This is worth the time it takes to do it...I found it eye opening how dumb I felt while reading it AND how few of the traditional reading strategies we teach I actually used.

perfect timing!

Some different approaches using pictures to help teach inferencing skills