Teaching Reading

Teaching Reading

1. Bottom-Up Processing

   • Linguistic-Data processing mechanisms
   • Linguistic Signals

2. Top-Down Processing

   • Intelligence
   • Experience

3. Interactive Reading

   • Combine
     • Bottom-Up
     • Top-Down

4. Schema Theory

   • Reader gives meaning to a text

5. Teaching Strategic Reading

   • Extensive Reading
     • Less emphasis on conscious strategic intervention
   • Reading fluency
     • Comprehension
     • Reading Rate

6. Vocabulary

   • Enhances reading ability

7. Literacy

   • Ability to read written language

8. Genres of Written Language

   • nonfiction, fiction, journals, memos, academic writing, recipes, menus, comic strips, etc.