Principles for Teaching Reading Exploit the reader’s background knowledge

Build a strong vocabulary base

Teach for comprehension

Work on increasing reading rate

Teach reading strategies

Encourage reader’s to transform strategies into skills

Build assessment and evaluation into your teaching

Strive for continuous improvement as a reading teacher

A – C – T – I – V – E Activate prior knowledge

Cultivate vocabulary

Teach for comprehension

Increase reading rate

Verify reading strategies

Evaluate progress

Reading Route Map1. (P) Warm-up questions

2. (P) Vocabulary work

3. (P) Predictions

4. (D) Main ideas

5. (D) Details

6. (D) Section summaries

7. (D) Graphic organizer

8. (P) Comprehension and discussion questions

9. (P) Vocabulary review

10.(P) Extension activity/project

Prereading Activities Discuss warm-up questions or brainstorm about the topic

Use pictures, video, realia

Preview the text (title, section headings, pictures, etc.)

Make predictions

Set a purpose

Explore key vocabulary and expressions

Start filling out a graphic organizer (e.g. K-W-L)

Do an experiential activity

During Reading Activities Underline, highlight, and/or take notes

Identify main idea(s) and details (discern relationships)

Ask and answer questions (to clarify understanding)

Pause to recall, reflect on, and organize new information

Make connections

Summarize sections (to confirm comprehension)

Look for prereading activity answers

Fill out a graphic organizer

Use context clues (vocabulary)

Infer and draw conclusions

Reread (important parts and difficult passages)

Postreading Activities Check comprehension (questions, T/F, rank or list, etc.)

Discuss with others (share ideas, express opinions)

Address any confusion or questions about the text

Review vocabulary and expressions

Complete a graphic organizer

Summarize, paraphrase, retell or order (scramble)

Synthesize information (combine new and existing)

Analyze ideas in text and apply to broader context

Review notes and evaluate understanding

Reflect on strategies that help the most and least and why

Extension activities (projects)

Comprehension Questions Literal comprehension (understand the

meaning)

Reorganization (combine information from different parts)

Inference (identify what is not explicitly stated)

Prediction (try to determine what might happen next)

Evaluation (give a global or comprehensive judgment)

Personal response (reader responds with his/her feelings)

Yes/No questions

Alternative questions (or)

True/False questions

Wh- and how questions

Multiple choice questions

Extensive Reading Framework The reading material is easy.

Variety of reading material on wide range of topics is available. Learners choose what they want to read. Learners read as much as possible. Reading speed is usually faster than slower. Reading purpose is for pleasure, information, understanding. Reading is individual and silent. Reading is its own reward. The teacher orients and guides the students. The teacher is a role model of a reader.

Extensive Reading Benefits Provides “comprehensible input”

Can improves learners’ general language competence Can enhance students’ general knowledge Motivates learners to read Consolidates and increases vocabulary knowledge Can lead to improvements in writing (to include grammar) Can develop autonomous learning

Intensive Reading Underlining Annotating Summarizing Scanning Skimming Context clues

Newspapers Collecting (plan in advance and build a stash)

Choosing (interesting and appropriate level)

Organizing (sections, themes and topics, language skills)

Making accessible (pre, during, and post activities)

Features (headlines, articles, pictures, ads, weather, comics)

Importance (educational, never-ending supply, current)

*Activity (“Three-minute Warning”)

Graphic Organizers

Cause and Effect Contraption Follow the Clues Story Board KWL Comparing Characters Character Chart What’s the Main Idea

Literature Circles Discussion Director

Artful Adventurer and Character Specialist

Literary Luminary

Connector

Vocabulary and Comprehension Master