In this section:

• Effective Instruction
• Enhanced Instruction

Teaching Reading Strategies

Providing effective instruction in reading strategies follows the same sequence found in models of effective instruction, such as:

• Basing initial instruction on more than one piece of evidence of need.
• Providing direct instruction of sufficient length and duration to provide opportunities for developing competence and automaticity.
• Appropriate modeling of the skill or strategy.
• Providing opportunities for guided and independent practice.
• Providing positive feedback as students produce closer approximations to the desired behavior.
• Opportunities to employ the newly learned skills.
• Providing periodic reviews and extensions.
  

In addition, strategy instruction is also enhanced when students are:

• Shown how the strategies can be combined, for example; how previewing the text can help students set a purpose and select a pace for reading
• Given opportunities to practice strategies with a variety of text
• Shown how strategies can be used for in and out-of-school reading