Reading Aspects

Reading Aspects

1. Creating Reading Tasks for The Students

   • Content issue
   • Task Design
   • Overall design
   • Instructional issues
   • Fundamentals in reading
     • Fluency
     • Alphabetics
     • As a construction process

2. Reading as a Second Language

   • Theories and approaches of reading models
     • Bottom-up approach
     • Interactive approach
     • Top-down approach
   • Applications
     • The schema theory
     • Cognitive development
     • Psycholinguistic Research

3. Can reading be saved?

   • The focus is to reintroduce kids to the richness and creative play of reading
   • Students are reading less for the past decade
   • Technology opens a lot of avenues for teachers to model their kids

4. Shared book reading

   • Strategies
     • Dialogic Reading
     • Through Non-Immediate Talk
     • Print Referencing
   • Factors that affect
     • Types of books
     • Existing knowledge and skills
     • Teachers

5. Motivation to read

   • Intrinsic motivation
   • How to enhance
     • Provide books that are interesting and challenging
     • Diverse activities
     • Combine surprise and novelty elemengts during reading