Transcript Teaching Reading - ed

Teaching Reading
By Lidiya Ukhno, ESLT
Irkliiv Secondary School
Chornobai District
“In the real world, reading is a means to
an end and not an end in itself. It is
always a purposeful activity, and our job
as teachers is to help students identify
these different purposes and to master
the strategies best suited to achieve
them’’
Ken Hyland
Reading in Teaching
a Foreing Language.
Benefits of reading
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Educational importance
Developing pupils’ intelligence
As a means of learning a language
As intellectual work
Involving different kinds of abilities
Reading as a process
&“reading per se”
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The reader can associate the graphic
system of the language with the phonic
system of the language
The reader can find the logical subject
and the logical predicate of the
sentences
The reader can get information from
the text
Two ways of reading.
READING
ALOUD
Diagnostic
reading
Instructive
reading
Control
reading
Two ways of reading
Silent
reading
read
grasp
reproduce
Helpful strategies
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Previewing
Predicting
Skimming & scanning
Guessing from context
Paraphrasing
Using strategies
Pre-reading
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Set a purpose or decide in advance
what to read for
Decide if more linguistic or background
knowledge is needed
Determine whether to enter the text
from the top down or from the bottom
up
While reading
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Verify predictions and check for
inaccurate guesses
Decide what is not important to
understand
Reread to check comprehension
Ask for help
Post- reading
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Evaluate comprehension in a particular
task of area
Evaluate overall progress in reading and
in particular types of reading tasks
Decide if the strategies used were
appropriate for the purpose and for the
task
Modify strategies if necessary
How to work with the text
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Grammar and lexical analyses
Work with a dictionary
Structural-information exercises
Semantic-communicative exercises
Reading techniques
Junior stage
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Read & draw
Here are the questions. Find the
answers in the text
Find these sentences in the text
Correct the following statements
Retell the text
Read the sentences you find the most
important in the text
Intermediate & senior stage
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Answer the questions
Tell your classmates what (who, when,
where, why…)
Read the words (sentences or
paragraphs) to prove what you say
Read the paragraph you like best
Write a short summary of the text
Reading as the essence of
students’ independent work
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Interest
Tasks
Questions (Why? What for? What would
you do if…)
Annotations
Note-making as a way of
developing reading skills
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put "+" on the margins next to the material
which is familiar or correct;
put "—" on the margins next to the material
which is absolutely new for them;
put "?" on the margins next to the material
which is doubtful, debatable or vague.
put"!" on the margins next to the material
which is quite .important.
Note-making as a way of
developing reading skills
Pupils colour
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red
doubtful information in yellow
familiar data in blue
some new facts in green.
the important facts in
How to teach
reading successfully
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The teachers must be well acquainted with
the class to be able to select texts both for
the whole class and for individual reading
They must stimulate wide reading through
the School Library
They must prepare assignments to direct
pupils’ reading
The teachers must determine what & how
much pupils should read (obligatory & of their
own choice)
GOOD LUCK!
REFERENCES
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Andeson,J.,B. Durston and M. Poole. 1969. Efficient reading: A practical guide.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Grellet, F. 1981. Developing reading skills. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
James, S. 1984. Reading for academic purposes. London: Edward Arnold.
Mitchel , D.C. 1982. The process of reading. Chichester, NY: John Wiley.
Nuttall, C. 1982. Teaching reading skills in a foreign language. London:
Heinemann.
Widdowson, H. 1983. Learning purpose and language use. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
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