Training Reading

Skills for Overall

Comprehension
EMI Resource Center, NCCU
Contents

Take a closer look at where

Proficiency Levels your student’s current reading
level and how you can help
them jump to the next stage.
An essential strategy to
Skill Integration conquer overall
comprehension.

Discussion on making
Growing Active materials more effectively and
Readers giving students an active role.

An activity that will assist your

Practical Teaching learners to feel enthusiastic
Idea for Class about reading.
 Reading Proficiency Levels
Where are you are this scale?

➔ Four illustrative scales can be

derived from an overall reading
comprehension scale
➔ Scan QR code for each individual
branch

Source: Common European Framework Reference for Languages (CEFR)

 Skill Integration 1
Point Evidence/Explanation
Example (PEE)

➔ PEE helps students to understand

that a paragraph is made up of
different parts
➔ Divide paragraphs up to simplify
loading

Source: Common European Framework Reference for Languages (CEFR)

PEE Example

➔ Where are the

point, evidence,
example(s)?

Source: Pathways 4. National Geographic

 Skill Integration 1
PEE - A Graphic Organizer

Read the paragraph and look for these, highlight the Write the answers in the
point in yellow, the evidence or explanation in green, table below.
and the examples in blue

P Point
What is the point/main idea of the paragraph?

E Evidence or explanation
How does the writer support the point?

E Example
What examples does the weiter give?
 PEE Example 2

Source: The Official IELTS Guide

Growing Active Readers

Scaffolding
1. Pre-reading activities
Vestibulum
2. Speed reading
congue
3. Longer, more
complex texts

Reading
in class
Motivation
Text exploitation
1.Collaboration
1.Teaching structures
2.Pre-reading
Vestibulum
and lexis
congue Vestibulum congue
discussion
2.Reflection activities
questions
and discussions
3. Skills
integration
 Using Materials Effectively on Read & Write
from Cambridge
➔ Choose your
reading level
➔ Search by topic
➔ Harvest real articles
corresponding to
your reading level
➔ Write a summary of
the text
➔ Practice hard!

Source:
https://readandimprove.englishlanguageitutor
ing.com/search
 Read & Write Tools

➔ Word Information
and word cloud

Source:
https://readandimprove.englishlanguageitutor
ing.com/search
 Read & Write Tools

➔ Comprehension
Test

Source:
https://readandimprove.englishlangua
geitutoring.com/search
 Practical Activity
Hold Reading Circles
➔ Select an appropriate text for your target audience (e.g., article, magazine,
academic book chapter)
➔ Give each learner one of the following roles:
◆ Chair — manages the discussion, ensures everyone can speak and
encourages each participant. Chair comes up with 2 discussion questions
based on the text.
◆ Summarizer — summarizes the text in ____ words
◆ Word Wizard — Help the group understand key terms in the text.
◆ Connector — Relate the text to the wider world. Consider how the text
reminds you of, shed new light on the experiences, people, news, outside
events etc.
◆ Illustrator — Draw some kind of picture or mind map related to the text
 Conclusion
How can we help our students?
Expose
students to
a variety of
real-life
texts

Ask for
Work on
evidence
and
language
justification
precision

Get
students to
use a
variety of
reading
strategies
 Skill Integration 2 (probably will not use)
KWL Tables

➔ It is very important that students read an academic text

with a purpose. They should ask themselves “Why am I
reading this text”, “What do I want to know?”
➔ What I KNOW
➔ What I WANT to know ➔ It is important that student need to do something with
➔ What I LEARNED it: make a group presentation, have a discussion, reflect
on it, use the summary to write a reflection.