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Teaching Reading - Coggle Diagram
Teaching Reading
Reasons for reading
- Useful for language acquisition 2. Positive effect on students' vocabulary knowledge, spelling & writing 3. Good models for English writing 4. Introduce interesting topics & fascinating lessons 5. Demonstrate the construction of sentences, paragraphs & whole text
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Reading levels
- Read authentic texts 2. Lower levels can face problems 3. Beginner students can understand some authentic written material 4. Longer prose provides text written for their level 5. Lower level students should use graded readers
Reading skills
- Scan the text for bits of information 2. Skim a text to get the general idea 3. Reading for detailed comprehension
Reading principles
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- Respond to the message & meaning of the text 2. Show the feelings about the topic
- Prediction before reading 2. Clues such as book-covers, photographs, headlines, web-page banners etc
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Integrate the reading text into lesson sequences, discussion, activities, tasks
Reading sequences
Example 1: Sun-screen
- Study language in the text 2. Comprehension work on the reading text
Example 3: Web-quest
- A search for information 2. Web-quest is concerned with activation 3. Introduction, task section, process stage and evaluation stage 4. Collect opinions, download images
Example 2: Campaigns
- Look at the reading text 2. Role-play 3. Prediction of what they are going to read
More reading suggestions
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Follow instructions such as recipes, instruction manuals
Reading newspaper (sections of articles, letters, advertisements)
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