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Reading - Coggle Diagram
Reading
Ideas for reading tasks
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Act out the dialogue, story, episode, etc.
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Before you read the text, make notes about what you already know about the subject.
Discuss interpretations of, reactions to, feeling about the text.
Look at the title and the illustrations - but not the text! Predict which of the following list of words you will find in the text.
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Extensive reading
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the more you read, the more you pick up items of vocabulary or grammar from the text
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readers
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as far as possible, let students read, enjoy and move on
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Top-down reading
Pre-text
- Introduction and lead in, eg get the learners interested in the topic, initial discussion of key themes, make an explicit link between the text and the students' own lives, focus on important lg that will come in the text
- First task (pre-reading), predict from some extracted information (illustration, key words, headlines) read questions about the text, students compose their own questions
Text
- Tasks to focus on fast reading or gist (skimming), eg check text against predictions made beforehand, guess the title from a choice of three options, put events in the correct order
- Tasks to focus on fast reading to locate specific information (scanning)
- Tasks to focus on meaning(general points), eg answer questions about meaning, make use of information in the text to do something (fill out a form, make a sketch etc), discuss issues, summarise arguments, compare viewpoints
- task to focus on meaning (finer points of detail, more intensive comprehensive understanding)
- Tasks to focus on individual lg items, eg vocab or grammar exercises, use of dictionaries, work out meaning of words from context
Post-text
- Closing: draw a lesson to a conclusion, tie up loose ends, review what has been studied and what has been learned.
- Follow-on task, e.g. role play, debate, writing task (write e letter in reply), personalisation (Have you ever had an experience like this one?))
it's important to raise our students' awareness that they don't need to understand every single word of the text
sometimes it's more useful to teach them how to read fast and to not worry about not understanding everything - they can still achieve a specific goal
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Skimming and scanning
Skimming: Read quickly to get the gist of passage (to discover key topics, main ideas, overall theme ecc.)
Scanning: Move eyes quickly over the text to locate a specific piece of information without reading the whole text
Reading for detail
reading texts closely and carefully with the intention of gaining an understanding of as much detail as possible
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