Teaching Reading

Teaching Reading

1. Reasons for Reading

   • For language acquisition
   • For vocabulary knowledge
   • Provide good models for writing

2. Kinds of Reading

   • Extensive reading (Reading for pleasure)
   • Intensive reading (Detailed focus on the construction of reading texts)

3. Reading Skills

   • Scanning
   • Skimming

4. Reading Principles

   • Read as often and as much as possible
   • Engage with what are reading
   • Respond to the content of a text
   • Prediction / Expectations in reading
   • Match task to the topic
   • Exploits reading texts to the full

5. Factors which contribute to the success of extensive reading

   • Library
   • Choice
   • Feedback
   • Time