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Reading strategies activated in experimental research

the Interglossary method using the Double-Entry Diary helps teachers to enhance pupils' level of reading literacy systematically without studying the theory extensively. The regular implementation of this method into the learning process makes it a useful tool for pupils' reading literacy development. The research findings led me to suggest recommendations to implement the teaching of reading strategies into reading lessons, particularly asking questions before, during, and after reading, the strategies of comparing, explaining, reasoning, agreeing, disagreeing, predicting, generalizing, summarising, inferring and deducing, assessing, evaluating, linking, and modelling, and to use them as variously as possible. The research showed that the Double-Entry Diary method enhances the success rate of testing reading skills of searching information, drawing conclusions, text evaluation, but in particular the text interpretation and integration.

According to the international surveys (PISA 2009), these were the areas, in which Czech pupils were lagging

behind. The findings led me to the following recommendations for teachers involved in teaching reading literacy:

1) Draw pupils' attention and create a silent learning environment

2) Develop a broad vocabulary

3) Offer pupils the widest possible range of texts

4) Provide motivating texts and context

5) Teach reading strategies

6) Allow for discussions and conduct them

7) Link reading and writing

8) Continuously monitor and evaluate progress

9) Individualise reading tasks

Reading literacy is a comprehensive competence requiring active thinking while reading. Without that reading is doomed to be ineffective.