Overview of Strategies 50-minute PRESENTATION
Target audiences: professors, high school teachers, students, or parents.
Purpose: to introduce key strategies that can make an immediate positive difference in reading academic texts well.
Description: TIME: 50-60 minutes. CONTENT: value of Layered Reading; six essential strategies–two Before reading strategies, two During reading strategies, and two After reading strategies. MATERIALS: a two-page handout, a passage we provide. METHOD: overview, explanation with brief demonstration, a few minutes to try several, debriefing the experiences, and application discussion geared to audience’s needs, Q&A.