ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a number of possible lesson goals and sample activities for all stages of the intensive reading process. It discusses how to apply the information in crafting an intensive reading lesson plan. The teacher can measure student progress in various strategies taught as part of intensive reading instruction, such as the ability to analyze vocabulary in context, use graphic organizers to identify key points and details, and annotate texts while reading. Surveying a text involves looking over it prior to reading it in methodical, strategic ways to get a sense of the text’s features, including its length, sections and divisions, main ideas, and any extratextual information that might aid comprehension, such as pictures, graphs, glosses of key or difficult vocabulary, and sidebars or text boxes. Research on and suggestions for strategy instruction and lists of strategies utilized by successful readers abound in the literature, and reading strategy training can occur at all stages of the intensive reading process.
