No matter what level your students are at, they will likely be exposed to reading instructional or complex texts in the workplace. We can help students navigate these texts by breaking the text down into chunks and focusing on difficult vocabulary, phrases and concepts and providing meaningful activities to assist them with comprehension.
Here are a number of strategies you can put in place to scaffold reading:
Pre-reading activities such as discussing the topic, key concepts and vocabularyEncouraging active reading strategies including:Highlighting important words using skimming and scanningAnnotating textReading with purpose (identifying questions to answer)Model SQ3R strateg (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)True/False questions Gap fillsComprehensive questionsMultiple choice quizzesWord/phrase matching activities>Student or teacher generated glossariesSummarise/paraphrase textProvide questions to guide reading
See a practical example, below, of a reading activity that uses a H5P Column content type and a number of these reading strategies.