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Tips and Tricks - Scaffolding Reading

  • Benjamin Waller
  • 2 November 2021
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    Technology Enhanced Learning
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No matter what level your students are at, they will likely be exposed to reading instructional or complex texts in the workplace. We can help students navigate these texts by breaking the text down into chunks and focusing on difficult vocabulary, phrases and concepts and providing meaningful activities to assist them with comprehension.
Here are a number of strategies you can put in place to scaffold reading:

  • Pre-reading activities such as discussing the topic, key concepts and vocabulary
  • Encouraging active reading strategies including:
  • Highlighting important words using skimming and scanning
  • Annotating text
  • Reading with purpose (identifying questions to answer)
  • Model SQ3R strateg (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)
  • True/False questions 
  • Gap fills
  • Comprehensive questions
  • Multiple choice quizzes
  • Word/phrase matching activities>
  • Student or teacher generated glossaries
  • Summarise/paraphrase text
  • Provide questions to guide reading
    See a practical example, below, of a reading activity that uses a H5P Column content type and a number of these reading strategies.
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