Learning Outcomes: Teachers should be able to

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• Use student-centric strategies to teach Reading Comprehension.

• Use Barrett’s Taxonomy to develop/design reading comprehension questions to help ALL students interact with the text to create and construct meaning.

• Use Barrett’s Taxonomy to assess students orally.

• Use Barret’s Taxonomy to guide setting of comprehension exam questions.

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Content to be Covered

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• Introduction to 5 Levels of Barrett’s Taxonomy for Reading Comprehension.

• Student interaction strategies and management tips to ensure active participation.

• Strategies for teaching Reading Comprehension :

  • DART  

  • ReQuest and Pick & Check

  • Checking accuracy for literal, reorganisation and inferential type of questions.

• Hands-on practice in creating different types of questions.