How to teach Reading

How to teach Reading

1. Why teach reading? - To expose students to the target language. - To provide good models for English writing. -To study the target language

2. What kind of reading should students do? - Real English and students interests.

3. What reading skills should students acquire? - Scan - Skim - Reading for detail comprenhension

4. What are the principles behind the teaching of reading? - Reading is not a passive skill. - Students need to be engaged with that they are reading. -Students should be encouraged to respond to the content of a reading text, not just to the language. -Prediction is a major factor in reading. -Match the task to the topic. -Good teachers exploit readings texts to the full.

5. What do reading sequences look like? -Example: Engaging activities,active excercises, follow-up activities.