Reading

Reading

1. Reading is one of the four skills. It’s a receptive skill. It has three levels: word level, sentence level and whole-text level.

   • Subskills
     • scanning: Read quickly until finding out some information we need.
     • Skimming: read quickly to getting a general idea of something.
     • Reading for detail: Get the meaning of each word for an instance.
     • Extensive reading: To read long pieces of text. While you read, your attention and interest vary.
     • Intensive reading: To make learners aware of how we use the language.
   • Approaches
     • Phonics: This approach is based on letters and sounds.
     • Whole sentence reading: teacher teaches recognition of whole phrases and sentences which have meaning.
     • Language experiences approach: reading is based on the child's spoken language.
     • Look and say: This approach is based on words and phrases.

2. Starting off

   • Reading a story from a book: Stories that are read aloud by the teacher will become stories that learners read.
   • Reading a class story: They are built up stories about characters given in materials that can be photocopied and colored.
   • Reading text based on the child’s language: is based on a picture, but can be about something which has happened.
   • Reading familiar nursery rhymes or songs

3. Reading aloud

   • is often thought of as reading round the class one by one.

4. Silent reading:

   • Remains through people's lives.
   • As teachers, create a positive attitude to books and reading.