Welcome to this self-paced course on how to support students' reading.
Course overview
In this course you will learn about:
- Factors influencing the reading process
- The importance of background knowledge - about the topic, the purpose of the text (genre knowledge), and the purpose for reading the text"
- Different reading strategies
Learning outcomes
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- identify relevant and necessary background knowledge for reading a text.
- point to how different genres have different purposes and thus require different reading strategies.
- develop relevant reading guides or questions for the students in order to make their reading more focused.
