How To Teach Reading

Linsay Doncel

Lina Carvajal

What is reading?

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Why do we read? Information Information/pleasure Pure pleasure Exams !!!

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What do we read? Books Newspapers, Magazines Photocopies, articles Notices Correspondence Forms, Signs Computer screens Multi-media carriers

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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

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What is the content?

Poetry (Auto)biography Schedules Maps Menus Advertisements Announcements Comics Workbook exercises Bibliographic information

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What is the text structure? Charts, graphs, illustrations Isolated lines of text Free form Interlinear notes Point and click images Narrative Headings, subheadings

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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.

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What skills do we use? Skimming Scanning Extraction of specific information In-depth (extensive) reading Met cognition.

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1: Extensive reading

Refer to the reading which students often away from the classroom.

They may read: novel Webpage newspaper magazine

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2: Graded readers

The aim of graded reading

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• 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

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Movies16

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Non-fiction

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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

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Integrated reading

All four skills Pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading Graded tasks Critical thinking Problem-solving

Active English Discussion

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Online newspapers21

Blogs

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Encourage students to extensively

There are 4 factors which contribute to the success of kind of extensive reading:

Library Choice Feedback Time.

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