Today's world needs creativity in action. As a classroom teacher or parent, one must learn the importance of ensuring creativity among learners while learning the lesson.

Here strategies must be varied enough to meet the needs of all learners while learning that correspond to their learning styles. Strategies, particularly in teaching reading, among the young readers must be part of everyday lesson ensuring each child's individuality. This will ensure maximum learning, meaningful and fun engagements with text, author or co-learners.

Following are strategies which could be used in a reading class:

1. Self-questioning

Here a reader makes himself aware of the text and its connection to his own experiences. This means that a reader's encounter with text makes him more aware of himself and his experiences through asking the validity or what of the text in relation to his own knowledge or experience. If he finds the text somewhat difficult for him to comprehend, it only means the text is not within his grasp and should be discarded than waste his precious time reading incomprehensible text.

2. Visualizing

While reading, a reader must have, a sort of, running a movie in his mind. He clearly sees the actions or what of the characters in the story or figures out the ideas through graphical representation inside his mind. Making a reader establish this kind of strategy in reading takes time and patience. This also calls for him to develop wild and wide reading experiences in order to have more stock knowledge about varied ideas under the sun. Thus, the chances of comprehending any kind of texts are closer to capability and enjoyment.

3. Rereading

If the text is hard to comprehend in the first reading, there is a need to reread. Here, absence of the background knowledge about the topic or what in the text is the cause of finding it difficult. Scaffolding from an adult or more experienced reader or what is needed once the second or third reading is still in vain.

4. Predicting

When it comes to reading a narrative text, it needs to have ideas about the author's tools in writing the story or what. Events are sequenced according to its chronological perspective or gradation of importance. To less experienced reader, a teacher must provide simple materials within his own capability, interest and circumstances. He should tell in advance what's gonna happen in the story or else the story is nothing but belongs to expository types which does not have to follow an order like mentioned above.

5. Summarizing

When a reader can figure out easily the chapter summary or series of events, chances are great that he understands the story. Here skills in knowing the protagonist and antagonist/s or what, the setting and events, etc. are a must. He should be familiar with the elements of the story in order to do this.

Above mentioned strategies when taught properly to a reader, would make him have a chance to comprehend text, thus making his reading experience fun and meaningful. When a reader struggles with reading text, he needs to be scaffolded on this by a good reading teacher or parent who knows where to start helping out the child learn to read and read to learn.

The author is a mentor of teachers in elementary grades in the Philippines. Aside from being a grade school teacher, he is also contributing articles to magazines just to make good use of his spare time.