READING SKILL

READING SKILL

1. Approaches to reading

   • Whole sentence reading
     • Phrases and sentences recognition. Meaning encouragment
   • Look and say
     • Repetition exercises in which students relate pictures to words (meaning) in order to set a context.
   • Phonics
     • Starting point. Teaching letters and sounds.
   • Language experience approach
     • Focused on children spoken language. Sets a clear context for students' understanding.

2. Which method to use?

   • Despite meaning is the key point on acquiring reading skills. Bare in mind common needs in order to get the reading accuracy,

3. Five to seven years old

   • This is the most difficult range of ages to teach reading, since they are just acquiring it.
   • L1 reading acquisition influences on L2 reading learning.
   • Decoding reading. Make use of images to give meaning input
   • Sentence, paragraphing and grammar is hard for this ages.

4. Reading Aloud

   • Despite it seems to be fun for students, it doesn't give much benefit because:
     • decreases interest
     • Encourages stumbling and mistakes
     • Disrupt silent reading in others
     • Not aqcurate for saving time on the lesson
   • However it can be possitve when using it carefully
     • Done individually or in small groups for begginers
     • Used for training, rhythm or pronunciation
     • Used for checking work and cooperative help

5. Silent reading

   • Long term purpose, it is what paople do most of the time
     • Building up confidence
       • Combine reading with discussion in L1
       • Build silent reading confidence by means of stories students know
       • 8 to 10 years old students can be more involved in silent reading.

6. Reading materials

   • Reading cards
   • Books for native speakers
   • Homemade books
   • Easy readers for EFL
   • Picture dictionaries
   • Books with tapes

7. Introducing new books

   • When introducing books, follow these steps
     • Show the book
     • Raise interest by looking at the cover
     • Read with amuse and interest

8. Book reviews

   • Check students thoughts and understanding. It helps as assessment because
     • it helps to check book suitability
     • Track on students' progress
     • Gives students an idea on what to read.
     • Develops critical thinking
     • Demonstrates teachers' interest

9. Eight to ten year old begginers

   • Starting off
     • Reading a story from a book
       • This are important stories since they become part of the students lives
         • Suitable for small groups. Make a relation between what is said and written. At the end talk about the story with the children.
     • Reading a class story
       • Instead of using a book story, create your own based on the class
         • Look for interesting facts inside the classroom, it might be a bear or any toy.
     • Reading texts based on child's language
       • Stories based on children lives and language. suitable for L1.
         • However, it can be work in L2 by means of pictures. Make yes no qquestions when vocabulary turns hard for students
     • Reading familiar nursery rhymes or songs
       • Children tend to learn nursery rhymes without getting the complete meaning of it.
         • Suitable for building confidence in students, since they already know what they are reading.

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