• Students need to be able to engage with complicated texts at the high school level.

• Not all students are good readers.

• All content areas at the secondary level incorporate literacy in the curriculum.

• Students must be able to read and comprehend what they read to be successful.  

1. Helps students to read for understanding.

2. Helps students to begin talking about what they have read with their peers and their teacher.

1. Helps students to read a text more closely.

2. Helps students to identify important key information in a text.

3. Mimics skills that expert readers do when they read.

Students need reading strategies to learn how to manage higher level texts.  Reading strategies support the reader while allowing them to move to independence.  Students of all ages and level benefit from reading strategies.  

Students also need to be exposed to a variety of texts thoughout their educational career.  Teachers need to plan to have students read a variety of texts in different settings to allow them to practice the reading strategies, so they will know how to approach a text at the independent level.  

Locate the Reading Strategies section in your Zombie Survival Guide and complete the following entry. 

How could you incorporate more reading strategies into your lessons to help support your struggling readers?