Kathy Perez
Based on 200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading
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Kathy Perez
Kathy Perez, EdD, is a professor emerita at Saint Mary’s College of California. She has extensive teaching experience as a general and special educator, literacy/ESL coach, administrator, and curriculum/staff-development coordinator.
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Literacy is NOT a Spectator Sport: Hands-On, Minds-On Active Reading Strategies
Categories: Literacy
This blog post is based on the book 200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading.
Whether we teach six- or sixteen-year-olds, we need to awaken the students’ brains to make meaning out of text and boost comprehension. What do good readers do? Our brains are actively predicting, visualizing, contextualizing, questioning, critiquing, summarizing, synthesizing, and applying how to use this information as we are reading.
As teachers, we need to unpack these skills for our students by providing opportunities to engage with texts that utilize these skills. The message is clear: awaken their brains for hands-on and minds-on reading. Read more