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Teaching reading skills
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- 1Chapter 4: Teaching Reading to young learners.
- 2READINGReading is a set of skills that involves making sense and deriving meaning from the printed word. In order to read, the reader must be able to decode, recognize the symbols that forms the words.
- 3READING FOR PLEASURE/INFORMATIONIn reading for pleasure it is important that the parents read stories for their children, in this way the students are being introduced to the idea that reading can be used as a form of entertainment.
In reading for information it also gives pleasure, you read a text, menu, story, etc that gives you information. - 4VISION PROBLEMS/ CONFIGURATIONIt is important to identify children who have vision problems because it is difficult for their to decipher unclear symbols in English.
The configuration consists in write words with lower case letters, because it is easier to make out the shape of the word than with words write only with Block Letters. - 5THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING SKILLSChildren need to be taught to see reading as a key that will open many doors.
- 6PHONICS-BASED INSTRUCTIONPhonics-based instruction teach students the basic phonics rules so that they can easily decode words and see the correspondence between sounds and letters.
- 7LITERATURE-BSED APPROACHThe literature-based approach is designed to help students develop literacy skills and at the same time develop an appreciation and enjoyment of literature
- 8CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES AND ACTIVITIES* Phonics: this activity consist by introducing sounds and letters that are associated with specific nouns, for example the teacher can use consonants that follor fairly regular spelling patterns such as /m/, /s/, /t/, etc.
* Predictable stories and pattern books: those contains repetitive phrases and illustrations that help to support the word or phrase or sentence that is repeated in the text. It help children to develop phonic skills and an appreciation for literature.
* Sight words: are words that children can recognize on sight suchs as: The, all, an, I, and also the teachers can use names. - 9PRINT-RICH ENVIRONMENTThe print-rich environment encourages students to develop literacy skills, this environmental print contain print that is seen all around as. In order to create a print-rich enviorenmet in the classroom, the print should have meaning for the learners, the teacher can include items such as:
* labels such as desk,door or window.
* a vocabulary list.
*bulletin boards.
As an activity the teacher can create learning centers where children can work alone or in small groups and give environmental print focused on specific topics. - 10LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACHIn this approach learners participate in a group activity and then describe what happened in their own words, the teacher serves as a scribe and write down the words exactly as the children say or make a minor editoral corrections so that grammar is correct, then children read and re-read the text with their teacher. This can also be used as an individual activity.
- 11QUESTIONING TECHNIQUESThe aim of reading is comprehension, the teachers should provide students with instructions on comprehending texts. Questions are used to check comprehension and help children think about what they are reading, but this questions should generate interest and enthusiam for the readers, this type of questions can help children become involved with the text and not make them feel apprehensive about answering correctly.
- 12COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES* Context clues and print conventions: the context is an important tool in comprehension and pictures can give the children clues that help discover the content of the text. Also print conventions, such as the use of capital letters or the use of punctuation, facilitate comprehension.
* Graphic organizers: are tools to help students visually organize the information, the three of the most popular are: KWL charts, semantic maps and Venn diagrams.
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- Flashcards on Teaching reading skills, created by Paula Teseira on 21/06/2021.
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- Paula Teseira · Jun 2021
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