Download - Module three language skill
How To Teach Reading
Linsay Doncel
Lina Carvajal
What is reading?
2
Why do we read? Information Information/pleasure Pure pleasure Exams !!!
3
What do we read? Books Newspapers, Magazines Photocopies, articles Notices Correspondence Forms, Signs Computer screens Multi-media carriers
4
What is the content? Fiction (long and short) Songs Plays Current events, feature articles and essays Academic articles, reports, reviews Warnings, directions Letters, postcards and notes Business letters, solicitations T-shirt messages, bumper stickers Raw data
5
What is the content?
Poetry (Auto)biography Schedules Maps Menus Advertisements Announcements Comics Workbook exercises Bibliographic information
6
What is the text structure? Charts, graphs, illustrations Isolated lines of text Free form Interlinear notes Point and click images Narrative Headings, subheadings
7
Comprehension skills Recalling word meanings Drawing inferences about a meaning of a
word from context Finding answers to questions answered
explicitly or merely in paraphrase Weaving together ideas from content Drawing inferences from content Recognizing a writer’s purpose,
attitude, tone, and mood Identifying a writer’s technique Following the structure of a passage.
8
What skills do we use? Skimming Scanning Extraction of specific information In-depth (extensive) reading Met cognition.
9
1: Extensive reading
Refer to the reading which students often away from the classroom.
They may read: novel Webpage newspaper magazine
20시 52분10
20시 52분11
Class library12
13
2: Graded readers
The aim of graded reading
14
• To recycle important and useful wordsand grammar and to aid acquisition
• To provide continuous reading practice• To build reading speed• To be enjoyable• To encourage reading for pleasure• To build DEPTH of knowledge
Literary fiction
15
Movies16
17
Non-fiction
18
Reading at the right level
Students MUST read at their comfortable reading level so they:• can read quickly • can read fluently• can read a lot• can read with very high levels of understanding• can enjoy the reading • can get the reading habit.
If students read something too difficult:• the reading becomes slow• they can’t read much• the students get tired easily• it becomes a form of ‘study’
Reading comics and cartoons
19
Integrated reading
All four skills Pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading Graded tasks Critical thinking Problem-solving
Active English Discussion
20
Online newspapers21
Blogs
22
Encourage students to extensively
There are 4 factors which contribute to the success of kind of extensive reading:
Library Choice Feedback Time.
20시 53분23