Matter Part II

Teachers must present students with reading tasks regularly. In my meetings with teachers in the Science Department, I'm often shown vocabulary exercises and comprehension tasks based on YouTube texts. This is good but students are rarely required to process an extended chunk of scientific text. An obvious reason for this is the lexical density of science texts. Using our list of comprehension skills, scanning, predicting, clarifying and summarising we can help student improve their comprehension skills when reading a science text. Feedback must be given for summary tasks so students can focus on those skills which need strengthening.