Because...Provides:

•English writing models.

•Vocabulary

•Grammar

•Punctuation

•Construct sentences

•Paragraphs

•Texts

Real + Interest = Balance text

SKIM

SCAN

Principles:

1.- Reading is not a passive skill.

2.- Engage students with the text.

3.- Understand the message.

4.- Prediction.

5.- Match the task to the topic.

6.- Exploit texts.

How do we read?

• We don’t need to PERCEIVE and DECODE letters in order to read words.

We don’t need to understand ALL THE WORDS in order to understand the meaning of text.

Beginning

READING

TYPES OF READING ACTIVITIES

• Interpretative questions.

• Motivating activities before reading: guess the topic.

A task is useful because it may

provide the learners with a purpose in

reading, and because we need to know how well our

learners are reading.

Ideas for reading activities

• Pre-questions• Do-it-yourself

questions.• Provide a title.• Summarize.

• Continue.• Preface.• Grapped text.• Mistakes in the

text.• Comparison.• Responding.• Re-presentation

of context

Improving reading skills• Language.• Content.• Speed.• Attention.• Incomprehensible vocabulary.• Prediction.• Background information.• Motivation.• Purpose.• Strategies.

Advanced

reading

Text

Closely to a mother-tongue

reading

Example:

•Poem

•Letter

Example:

•Discussing the interpretation of the poem

•Write an answer to the letter

Tasks

Longer and multi-

stage activities

Extensive

reading

•Develop word’s recognition

Read material easy to

understand

Built up a library of

suitable books

We need to promote reading

We should encourage

them to report back

on their reading

Intensive reading

Reading purpose

Give the space to

read

Feedback

Work with dictionary