Reading Instruction Essentials

Reading Instruction Essentials

1. What is Reading and How should it be taught

   • A complex and purposeful process in which reader simultaneously use their knowledge of spoken and written language, their knowledge of the topic of the text, and their knowledge of their culture to construct meaning from text.
   • understand the sound of letters(phonics), the meanings of words (vocabulary), the various word parts (grammatical markers), and how to make meaning from both individual words and groups of words (overall meaning or semantics)
   • workbooks or worksheets with practice exercise
   • whole-language approach
   • Literacy approach

2. Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Teaching Reading

   • High interest books
   • Debate and discussion
   • Teacher must have a strong knowledge of both the characteristics of their students and multiple methods of teaching reading

3. Learning to read

   • Understand the letter form words, meaning, written words
   • Recognize symbols and pattern of symbols
   • developed language skills and knowledge about reading
   • early exposure to language
   • the connection between letters, words, and print

4. Reading fluency

5. Reading Comprehension

6. Making Connections

   • Text-to-Self Connections
   • Text-to-Text Connections
   • Text-to-World Connections

7. Determining Importance

8. Questioning

9. Visualizing

10. Making inferences

11. Summarizing and synthesizing

12. Metacognition