Teaching Reading with the Change Agent

​Teaching reading: strategies & methods

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• Read aloud to students.

• Provide opportunities for students to read, write and talk about texts.

• Read texts repeatedly to support fluency.

• Teach the tools to figure out words they don’t know.

• Provide time for studying spoken language, including vocabulary and spelling.

• Use prior knowledge to make connections.

• Predict

• Visualize

• Summarize

• Teach critical thinking skills

​The Change Agent - a reading tool

​the website

username - pittcc

password - pittcc

Open Ended

After perusing the website, write what you can do next week to improve your teaching of reading.

Poll

The Change Agent is

• a game changer for me and my students.

• a great tool for my students to read every class.

• not for me.

• easy to use and will help my students read.