When students start reading a piece of text they immediately want to take action. If it is a mathematics word problem, most students want to start doing some calculation with the numbers in the problem. If it is a a story in the language arts classroom, a lot of students start making connections to their own lives and books they have previously read. A great low preparation strategy to support our English Learns across all content ares is Scan the Text. Scan the Text is a strategy that takes place BEFORE students read the text. Students put their finger on the last word of the piece of text and they they move their finger back and up to the start of piece of text. As they are tracking with their finger they are reading each word and listing the words that are unfamiliar or unknown. Once they have their list of words, students take a moment to take another look at those words and figure out how to read them. They can read the words and think back to where they might have seen the word before this occasion or look on a class word wall. They can analyze the words to see if maybe they are cognates. If the words are proper nouns, they can change it to another proper noun that is easier to read or just use the initial. After they have spent time getting familiar with the words they listed, THEN they can start reading the text to make meaning. Why go backwards? If students scan the text from top to bottom, they are most likely to start trying to make meaning and get frustrated when they encounter unfamiliar words. Scan the Text, gives students the opportunity to come up with a game plan for unfamiliar words and that will allow them read with more ease.
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