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Online Reading Strategies for the Classroom
Reading, be it print or digital, requires a number of complex skills to work in concert in one efficient and automatized operation. There are substantial three differences between reading in print and reading online which also can be considered as the challenge in teaching reading. First, the Internet offers a vast volume of information. Second, a great deal of information online is not fact-checked or is published by a source that may not be reliable. Finally, online reading is generally nonlinear. Strategy training and practice helps learners overcome the challenges of reading online and become digitally literate—able to read with sufficient accuracy, fluency, and ease. Strategy training should begin with instructor modeling so that students understand both how to implement the strategy and why it is useful. Strategy-training activities should be scaffolded, with guidance from the instructor at the beginning but gradually allowing students more and more autonomy.
The ultimate goal is for students to be able to choose which strategies will be useful to them for any given online reading task and to implement the strategies effectively. Students are both more adept at and more enthusiastic. Discourse structure graphic organizers (DSGOs) are excellent tools for guiding students through the use of online reading strategies. DSGOs help readers understand both text content and structure and are particularly important with digital texts because online reading is nonlinear.
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