Teaching Reading

Teaching Reading

1. Reading strategies

   • skimming
     • It’s a reading technique that consists of performing a "quick reading" or one that allows inferring the most important points of this
   • Scanning
     • It’s a reading technique that readers use when they want to search for specific information
   • Intensive reading
     • Is a detail reading activity
   • Extensive reading
     • It's a global activity

2. Stages of reading

   • Pre-reading
     • The teacher is in charge of motivating his students to read, to do so he asks introductory questions to the students about the subject at hand.
   • Reading
     • The educator provides the reading, explains vocabulary and implements interactive activities for a better understanding of the subject.
   • Post reading
     • Evaluative questions are asked to the students to determine if there was a good understanding of the reading.

3. Skills

   • Global comprehension
     • Is the ability to understand the central idea of the text.
   • Local comprehension
     • Consists of understanding the general points of the reading, or specific aspects of it.
   • Referential comprehension
     • In this skill it is sought that the reader can obtain factual information from the text.
   • Inferential comprehension
     • Is the ability to infer parts of the text according to what has been read so far.
   • Evaluative comprehension
     • The reader must be able to adequately judge and criticize the claims of the author of the text.