READING PRINCIPLES

READING PRINCIPLES

1. Students need to be engaged with what they are reading

   • They should engage in fun reading.
   • Teachers must ensure that
     • students are committed to the topic of the text.
     • students are carry out the activities.

2. Encourage students to read as much as possible

   • The more students read, the better.
   • Everything we do should encourage them to read.

3. Encourage students to respond to the content of a text, not just focus on its construction

   • The message of the text is very important.
   • Student are allowed to show their feelings on the subject, thus eliciting a personal commitment to it and the language.

4. Prediction is an important factor in reading

   • Book covers , photographs, headlines, etc give us a clue as to what is in the book.
   • In class,teachers should give students'hints'so that they also haveachance to predict what is coming.

5. Match the task to the topic when using intensive reading texts

   • We need to choose good reading tasks the right kind of questions,appropriate activities before during and after reading.
   • The most useful and interesting text can be undermined by boring and inappropriate tasks.

6. Good teachers exploit reading texts to the full

   • Good teachers integrate the reading text into interesting lesson sequences,using the topic for discussion and further tasks.
   • When students have been doing extensive reading,we should use whatever opportunities present themselves to provoke useful feedback.

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