Interviewer Guide for Reading Strategies[1]

(Reading text ………………………………………………………………………..)

☺ Interviewer: Try to observe and listen to your partner as s/he thinks-aloud[2]

 

General Reading Behavior (circle 1)

 

Rarely translates                              Translates

guesses contextually                           guesses noncontextually

 

Translates                                     Translates

guesses contextually                            rarely guesses

 

Circle the strategies mentioned              Comments (e.g. frequency)

1. Skims and scans.                                   ______________________________

2. Skips unknown words (guesses contextually)        ______________________________

3. Uses context in preceding and succeeding

    sentences and paragraphs.                         ______________________________

4. Identifies the grammatical category of words.        _____________________________

5. Evaluates guesses.                                  _____________________________

6. Reads title, subheadings (makes

inferences)                                         _____________________________     

7. Continues if unsuccessful.                           _____________________________

8. Recognizes cognates.                                ____________________________

9. Uses knowledge of the world.                        ____________________________

10. Analyzes unknown words.                            ____________________________

11. Reads to identify meaning rather than words.          ____________________________

12. Uses illustrations.                                    ____________________________

13. Takes chances in order to identify meaning.           ____________________________

14. Uses illustrations.                                    ____________________________

15. Uses side-gloss.                                     ____________________________

16. Uses glossary as last resort.                          ___________________________

17. Looks up words correctly.                            ____________________________

18. Ask others.                                           ___________________________

19. Analyze and reason                                   ___________________________

20. Summarize the text                                   ___________________________

21. Make notes, highlight                                 ___________________________

22. Create mental images                                 ___________________________

23. Make an effort to lower anxiety                        __________________________

23. Use a variety of context clues.                         __________________________   

 

Now try to identify the strategies that were employed BEFORE (preparation), DURING (self-monitoring), and AFTER (self-reflection) the reading task.       

 

 

BEFORE

 

 

 

 

DURING

 

 

 

 

AFTER                                          


[1] Strategy……

a carefully devised plan of action to achieve a goal, or to solve a problem that inhibits achieving the goal. (Here we are primarily interested in the use of strategies that would be within the student’s sphere of consciousness.)

[2] Think-aloud…..

  to report verbally the thoughts that flow in a stream-of-consciousness fashion without any deliberate control