Read, Cover, Remember, Retell strategy

Read, cover, remember, retell is an
instructional strategy that is used to help students stop after reading small
portions of the text and retell what the section was mostly about. Many
learners will continue reading a selection even if they don't understand what
they have just read. This process supports both understanding of text and
summarizing by stopping readers frequently to think about the meaning
before moving on to the next section of the text. After students become
adept at using this strategy to orally retell portions of the text, the teacher can
encourage students to write a summary sentence of each section and then
use these sentences to write an overall summary of the selection (Hoyt,
1999).