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7/27/2019 Developing Reading Skills Through Text-based Activities
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Jessy Lostaunau de Jimenez
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READING
A linearprocess?
Aninteractiveprocess?
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THE NATURE OF LEARNING TO
READBotton-up
process
Top-down
process
Schema theory
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THE SCHEMA THEORY AND THE READING
PROCESS
Content schemata
Formal schemata
Activating and building schemata
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THE MECHANICS OF READING
Scanning
Skimming
Search for the shape of words or phrases aswell as their meaning. (Details, specific
information).
Ignore unfamiliar words. Search only for
key ideas. (The gist).
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APPLYING SCHEMA THEORY TO L2
READING
Pre-reading activities
Prediction Previewing
Semantic
map
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Pre-reading activities: Prediction
Predict the topic before you begin to read
PUBLIC SCHOOLS PRIVATE SCHOOLS
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Pre-reading activities: Previewing
Jenny talks about her year in a public school
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Pre-reading activities: Semantic Map
Publicschools
mis-behavior
big classes
no tuition
littlehomework
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EFL TEXTBOOKS AND READING
Vocabulary developmentMeaning, form, pronunciation, spelling, grammar, connotation,
appropriateness, relationship, collocation Extensive readingFor pleasure, fluency, confidence, and independence. Promotes
writing skills and vocabulary acquisition
Discourse knowledge
The rhetorical organization of texts Reading rateGood readers read fast
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THREE STAGES IN A READING LESSONPre-reading stage Introduces the theme of the text before students start reading.
Helps students to get an idea of what the text will be about.
Creates interest in the topic.
While reading stage Leads students to think about the meaning of the text.
Guides toward relevant information
Focuses their attention on the main idea or ideas and supportingfacts.
Allows them to follow instructions and perform a taskPost reading stage Offers a chance to evaluate students understanding of the text
Gives a chance to develop other skills.
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SOME IDEAS FOR PRE-READING
ACTIVITIES Get students to describe the illustration of the
text relating it to the title.
Ask students to sit in groups and discuss howmuch they know about the theme of the text.
Write three statements on the board andencourage students to choose the one they think
will be the topic sentence. Invite groups of students to write 5 questions on
things they would like the text to answer.
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SOME IDEAS FOR WHILE READING
ACTIVITIES Tell students to take notes of relevant
information or things they would like to know.
Tell them to write questions about the readingthey would like to ask classmates or teacher.
Ask them to underline the main idea or ideas.
Write some incomplete sentences on the board
and ask them to complete the information whilethey are reading.
Ask them to take notes of the new expressionsand/or words.
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SOME IDEAS FOR POST READING
ACTIVITIESAsk them to continue the story.
Ask them to take the role of any of the charactersin the reading.
Have them summarize the information
Have them tell the story changing the situation.
Ask them to write a report about the text.
Ask them to write the events in chronologicalorder.
Get the students to identify transition signals andhow they work.
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