Teaching Reading
Reasons for reading?
*Students be able to read texts in Englishfor study or pleasureb *Reading is useful for languageacquisition.
*Positive effects in vocabulary, spelling, writing. *Good models for English writing
* Can introduce topics,stimulate discussion, promote imaginative responses.
Microskills for reading comprehension
Identify the purpose in reading
Use graphemic rules and patterns
Use efficient silent reading techniques
Skim the text for main ideas
Scan the text for main information
Use semantic mapping or clustering
Guess when you aren't certain
Analyze vocabulary
Distinguish betwen literal and implied meanings
Capitalize on discourse makers to process relationships
Kinds of Reading
Extensive
Refers to reading do often could be novels, web pages, newspaper and magazines. Is usually called reading for pleasure
Materials
provide books which either by chance, or because they have been specially written.
Setting up a library
teacher and students make libraries in classroom or school
Role of the teacher
promote the reading as a valid occupation and persuade studentsof its benefits
Reading tasks
their own likes and interests
Intensive
Is usually called study activities in which students will tease out for details and gramatically also use of vocabulary
Organiser
give them clear instructions about how to achieve it
Observer
obser their progress and make feedback
Feedback Organiser
lead feedback session to check thathey have completed it successfully
Prompter
we can prompt them to notice language features within it.
Research on Reading
Bottom-up and top down processing
in bottom-up processing, readers must first recognize a multiplicity of linguistic signals and use previous knowledge to impose order in this signals
top down draw in our own intelligence and experience to understand the text
Schema therory and background knowledge
Reader bring information, knowledge, emotion, experience, and culture to the printed word.
The role of affect and culture
Love of reading propelled many a learner to succesul adquisition of reading skills.
The power of extensive reading
Students will learn to read better in a laissez-faire
Studies suggest that teachers teach in extensive reading because its components are strengthens
Adult literacy training
specialized field of research and practice that derives insights.
