TEACHING
READING

BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN PROCESSING

Bottom-up processing the readers have
to recognize some linguistic signals and use
them

Data-processing requires a specific knowledge
of the language, readers select signals and
make sense

Top-down or conceptually drive processing
readers express their own intelligence and experience
to understand the text

SCHEMA THEORY AND BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

THE ROLE OF AFFECT AND CULTURE

THE POWER OF EXTENSIVE READING

ADULT LOTERANCY TRAINING

Non-fiction (reports, essay, article)

Fiction (Novels, poetry)

Letters

Newspaper

Academic Writing

Billd (Financial Statemebt)

Permanence

Processing Time

Readers can read in their own rhythm

Distance

Readers have to interpretate
the language

Orthography

Readers must perceive every
single things and
"Read between the lines"

Complexity

Readers must return to adjust their
cognitive perceptions to select the
useful information.

Vocabulary

Some meanings could be
predicted by the context

Formality

Related to elaborate texts

Identify the purpose in reading

Use graphemic rules
(Beginning level)

Use efficent silent reading techniques
(Intermediate to advanced)

Skim the text (Main ideas)

Scan the text
(Specific Information)

Use semantic mapping or clustering

Guess (Meaning, grammatical,
cultural reference)

Analyze Vocabulary

Literal and Implied meanings

Capitalize on discourse markers
to process relationships

Using Newspaper

Following Intructions

Poetry

Predicting from words
and pictures

Differente Responses

Encourage students to read whenever possible

Students must engage with the readings

Encourage students to respond to
the content of a text

get an idea of the topic of the text

Relate the readings with activities

Depending on the level it is possible
to offer a specific text for every learner

The most useful is to read Authentic texts

Study purpose

Simply for pleasure

Useful for language acquisition

Positive effect in vocabulary
knowledge and spelling

Provide good models

The learners are related with
reading to motivate it is for
acquiring information and
enjoying the reading

Be a part of the community
of readers

Oral and silent reading

-Chek pronuntiation
-Is not an authentic language activiy

Intensive and extensive reading

INTENSIVE
there are some activities that
focus in the linguistics or in semantic details

EXTENSIVE
Is performed to achieve a general
understanding of a longer text than usual