How to teach reading

How to teach reading

1. Why teach reading?

   • Study purposes
   • Pleasure
   • To improve language students
   • English writing
   • Vocabulary
   • Grammar
   • Punctuation
   • To construct sentences

2. What kind of reading should students do?

   • Real English
     • Magazine articles
     • Letters
     • Stories
     • Tales
     • Poems
     • Advertisements
     • Reports
     • Recipes
     • Timetables
     • Instructions
     • Referenced material

3. What reading skills should students acquire?

   • Scanning
     • Reading rapidly in order to get a general overview of the material
   • Skimming
     • Reading rapidly in order to find specific facts

4. What are the principles in teaching reading?

   • Reading is not a passive skill
   • Students should be encouraged to respond to the content of a reading text, not just to the language
   • Students need to be engaged with what they're reading
   • Prediction is a major factor in reading
   • Match the task to the topic
   • Good teachers exploit reading texts to the full

5. What do reading sequences look like?

   • Elementary
     • Engaged activities to generate atraction for the texts.
   • Lower intermediate
     • General understanding
   • Intermediate to advanced
     • Meaning and construction
     • Study and Activation
   • Intermediate
     • Engaged students with discussions