Teaching different Styles OF

READING MATERIALS
tYPES OF READING MATERIALS
 mAGAZINES
These can be found in newsstands or digital
formats.
 COMICS
These reading material allows the students to be hooked on
reading. It is a great strategy to teach the students about
reading dialogues.
 Manuals
This builds up their vocabulary competence and there
materials are even visible at home.
 NEWSPAPERS
This teaches the students to know what’s going on in
society.
 Poetry
This is a creative way to teach students love reading. Having
them write their poems is a good skill to promote both
reading and writing.
 Travel Brochures
They can learn about a place, culture, and people.
 EncyclopedIas
With the vast general knowledge contained in encyclopedias,
students can just choose their subject or topic of interest to
readers.
 sports program
Allowing the students to read about their favorite sports as
well as the athletes they admire gives them the motivation
to look for information by reading programs or sports
articles.
 Catalogs
Allowing the students to read about their favorite sports as
well as the athletes they admire gives them the motivation
to look for information by reading programs or sports
articles.
 RECIPES
These reading materials are very applicable to students.
 DICTIONARIES
Asking the students learn new words a day resort them to
read dictionaries.
 PLAY SCRIPTS
Making the students feel about being a stage performer
brings out their artistic side.
 AtLASES
These provide wealthy reference information about places.
 PublIC SIGNS
Being aware of the language around them by reading signs
on the road, school, and everywhere is a good start for them
to read.
 Books They WRITE
Reading their writing is a very powerful tool for students.
Asking them to read their essays, poems, stories, and
paragraphs encourages them to read and write.
TEACHERS SHOULD INTEGRATE THE
SEVEN COGNITIVE STRATEGIES OF
EFFECTIVE READERS.

MCEWAN, 2007
 aCTIVATING

When prior knowledge is activated, their reading

process becomes relevant.
 INferrIng

This strategy teaches the student to decipher

explicit and implicit information on the materials they
are reading. Combining both written and unwritten
information in the reading text helps them to
process ideas easily.
 MONITORING-CLARIFYING

Telling the students that they are free to speak and

ask questions about the material that they read is a
good strategy. This makes them think about how
and what they read. Clarifying something makes
them comprehend the text better.
 QUESTIONING

Asking questions, making questions, and answering

questions is an effective strategy to make the
students at ease by sharing ideas with others.
 SEARCHING-SELECTING

Refers to searching for more sources to get

appropriate information that leads to answering
questions, defining terminologies, clarifying concepts,
and gathering more information.
 vISUALIZING-ORGANIZING

Thinking of a mental image while reading a text

makes the students construct meaning and extract
information more clearly than just simply reading the
text.