What are benefits of teaching reading?
Good model for language production
Helps increase vocabulary
Punctuation & tonality
Grammatically correct English is used
Allow students to work at their own pace
What are challenges of teaching reading?
- Reading is normally something something we do alone
- Tough for students to concentrate
- Difficult to keep students quiet for long period of time
- May have wide range of skills in one class
What are the stages of pre-reading? (In context of a lesson)
Warmer
Presentation
Prediction
What is tested while reading?
Skimming
Scanning
Comprehension
What are the post reading components? (In the context of a lesson plan)
Inference
Production activities
Wrap up
What is the sequence of reading task?
- Prediction
- Skimming
- Read entire text
- Scanning
- Comprehension
- Inference and interpretation
What is skimming?
Looking for the main idea of the text
What is scanning?
Looking for specific information in the story
Dates, names, places, one word answer
What is comprehension?
Synthesizing facts to understand what’s going on in the text
What are the two questions for skimming?
- What is your main idea?
- Was your prediction correct?
