| Objective A: Learners will set personal goals
for reading. |
- Choose texts based on specific goals and interests.
Note: goals and interests may change during instructional
period, especially when there is an increase in reading proficiency.
- Relate texts to their own lives and experiences.
- Develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and
cultural dimensions the texts represent.
- Identify various types of reading materials that correspond to
reading purposes such as reading to learn and reading to perform for
home, work, community, personal affairs, and pleasure.
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| Objective B: Learners will use pre-reading
strategies. |
- Use pictures, sub-headings, differences in print types, and
reading questions.
- Scan texts for familiar and unfamiliar words and concepts.
- Generate guiding questions to prepare to understand meaning.
- Anticipate and predict content such as guessing the message of a
newspaper article by reading the headline.
- Determine organization of text.
- Choose pages to read by consulting index or table of contents.
- Develop an appropriate reading rate.
NOTE: Most ABE students need to increase reading rates, but some
students read too quickly and must decrease reading rates.
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