HOW TO TEACH

READING
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WHY TEACH
READING?
1. For your career, for study purposes or pleasure
2. Reading text interesting and engaging =
most successful
3. Models for English writing
4. Opportunities to study language
What kind of reading should students do?
BEGINNERS
• Menus

• Timetables

• Signs

• Advertisements
INTERMEDIATE
• Novels
• Short stories
• Encyclopedia
• Newspaper articles
• Magazine
• Play extracts
ADVANCED
• Business letters
• Newspaper
• Business texts
• Scientific texts
• Reports
• Poems
PRINCIPLES
1. READING IS NOT A PASSIVE SKILL
2. STUDENTS NEED TO BE ENGAGED WITH WHAT THEY
ARE READING
3. STUDENTS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO RESPOND TO
THE CONTENT OF A READING TEXT, NO JUST TO THE
LANGUAGE.
4. PREDICTION IS A MAJOR FACTOR IN READING.
5. MATCH THE TASK TO THE TOPIC.
ELEMENTARY
•Learning the Alphabet
•Learning Sounds
•Learning Sounds of Letter Pairs
•Reading Syllables
•Frecuent Words
•Improve the vocabulary
•Reading Short, Simple Words
•Reading Simple Phrases and Stories
•Fluency
•Short test
Lower intermediate
INTERMEDIATE.
• 1. Scan the text first.
• 2. Look up unfamiliar words.
• 3. Test the students.
• 4. Use worksheets
• 5. Quiz your students
Intermediate to advanced
• English language learners, advanced level will need:
• Vocabulary development.
• Comprehension strategies and skills.
• Summarizing
• Secuencing
• Inferencing
• Comparing and contrasting
• Drawing conclusions
• Self-questioning
• Problem-solving
• Relating backround knowledge
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion.
• Finding the main idea, important facts and supporting details.
• Identify voabulary, easy definitions.
• Model think-alouds: verbalize and reread a confusing
point.
• Hand out equilibrate partners with dominant English
speakers.
• After working, ELLs should practice alone.
“While I was reading, how did I do?”
Skill I used Not very much A little bit Much of the time All of the time

Blending        

Chunking        

Finding meaning of new

       
word

Making mind movies as

       
I read

Rereading        

Reading ahead
Questions for ELLs after reading
•Literal level
•Interpretative level
•Applied level
READING SUGGESTIONS
• Students read an extract from a play or a film, and after ensuring that they understand
it, they have to work on acting it out.