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TEACHING READING - Coggle Diagram
TEACHING READING
Reading difficulties
Language level is too high
Vocabulary is too dense
Overload - too much to read in too short a period of time
Anxiety
Lack of motivation
Lack of interest in topic
Hungarian interference
Low levels of concentration
Lack of practice
Overcoming reading difficulties (teacher strategies)
Give guidance and motivation
Start from outside the text
Relate to personal experience or knowledge
Getting students to ask their own questions before they read
Extensive reading
Longer texts
Picking up vocabulary and grammar
Need for encouraging students to read
Books specifically made for certain level students (bigger chance that they will understand it and learn from them)
Let students enjoy certain texts instead of doing many exercises
Reading activities
Jump in the middle of the reading and predict what happened
Use a key section of the story as a dictation
Students draw a picture of a scene, then discuss their interpretations
Map the story, map out the relationships
Keep a character's diary
Types of reading
Intensive reading
: reading shorter texts to extract specific information
Extensive reading
: reading longer texts, often for pleasure; gaining global understanding
Skimming
: running your eyes quickly over a text to get the main ideas; gist reading
Scanning
: reading through a text quickly to identify a particular point or word
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Reading tasks ideas
Paragraph ordering
Matching or giving headlines
Discussing interpretations, feelings about the text
Reading aloud round
Alternatives
You read
You read narratives, students read dialogues
Students read in small groups
Students silently speed-read the chapter, then discuss
What?
novels, comics, websites, interviews, film subtitles, blogs, poems, recipes, advertisements, short stories, leaflets, manuals, emails
Reading = receptive skill