Understanding a text is only half the challenge — students also need ways to capture meaning and the resilience to keep reading when it feels difficult. This lesson focuses on two essential skills:
- Teaching note-taking – guiding students to record key ideas in their own words, with clear purpose, instead of guessing what the teacher wants or copying sentences word-for-word.
- Building stamina – helping learners stay with a text, maintain flow, and trust themselves to keep going, even without knowing every word.
Together, these skills give learners the independence and confidence to engage with longer and more complex texts. Note-taking makes reading useful; stamina makes it sustainable.
