Learning Strategies

Learning to summarize text paragraphs is one of the most useful reading skills a student can develop, because it forces

Context clue strategies are methods readers use to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word by looking at the

Inferencing strategies are the methods readers use to work out meaning that an author implies but does not state directly.

Reading comprehension monitoring is the ongoing process of checking, while you read, whether the text actually makes sense to you.

Morphology based vocabulary is a way of learning words by studying their meaningful parts, such as roots, prefixes and suffixes,

Vocabulary retrieval practice is the habit of pulling a word and its meaning out of memory without looking it up

Language learning spaced review is a method of revisiting words, grammar and phrases at gradually increasing intervals instead of cramming

Practice with sentence stems means repeating partial sentences that give students a ready structure for explaining ideas. Teachers use them

Using diagrams effectively means choosing a visual when it clarifies an idea, then building that visual so it shows relationships

Studying multiple representations means learning an idea through more than one form, such as a written explanation, a diagram, a