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Teaching Reading
By Lidiya Ukhno, ESLTIrkliiv Secondary SchoolChornobai District
“In the real world, reading is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It is always a purposeful activity, and our job as teachers is to help students identify these different purposes and to master the strategies best suited to achieve them’’ Ken Hyland
Reading in Teaching a Foreing Language.
Benefits of reading
Educational importance Developing pupils’ intelligence As a means of learning a language As intellectual work Involving different kinds of abilities
Reading as a process&“reading per se” The reader can associate the
graphic system of the language with the phonic system of the language
The reader can find the logical subject and the logical predicate of the sentences
The reader can get information from the text
Two ways of reading.
READING ALOUD
READING ALOUD
Diagnostic reading
Diagnostic reading
Instructive reading
Instructive reading
Control readingControl reading
Two ways of reading
Silent readingSilent
reading
readread graspgrasp reproducereproduce
Helpful strategies
Previewing Predicting Skimming & scanning Guessing from context Paraphrasing
Using strategies
Pre-reading
Set a purpose or decide in advance what to read for
Decide if more linguistic or background knowledge is needed
Determine whether to enter the text from the top down or from the bottom up
While reading
Verify predictions and check for inaccurate guesses
Decide what is not important to understand
Reread to check comprehension Ask for help
Post- reading Evaluate comprehension in a
particular task of area Evaluate overall progress in reading
and in particular types of reading tasks
Decide if the strategies used were appropriate for the purpose and for the task
Modify strategies if necessary
How to work with the text
Grammar and lexical analyses Work with a dictionary Structural-information exercises Semantic-communicative exercises
Reading techniques
Junior stage Read & draw Here are the questions. Find the
answers in the text Find these sentences in the text Correct the following statements Retell the text Read the sentences you find the
most important in the text
Intermediate & senior stage
Answer the questions Tell your classmates what (who,
when, where, why…) Read the words (sentences or
paragraphs) to prove what you say Read the paragraph you like best Write a short summary of the text
Reading as the essence of students’ independent work
Interest Tasks Questions (Why? What for? What
would you do if…) Annotations
Note-making as a way of developing reading skills put "+" on the margins next to the
material which is familiar or correct; put "—" on the margins next to the
material which is absolutely new for them; put "?" on the margins next to the
material which is doubtful, debatable or vague.
put"!" on the margins next to the material which is quite .important.
Note-making as a way of developing reading skills
Pupils colour the important facts in red doubtful information in yellow
familiar data in blue some new facts in green.
How to teach reading successfully The teachers must be well acquainted with the class to
be able to select texts both for the whole class and for individual reading
They must stimulate wide reading through the School Library
They must prepare assignments to direct pupils’ reading The teachers must determine what & how much pupils
should read (obligatory & of their own choice)
GOOD LUCK!
REFERENCES Andeson,J.,B. Durston and M. Poole. 1969. Efficient reading: A practical
guide. New York: McGraw-Hill. Grellet, F. 1981. Developing reading skills. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. James, S. 1984. Reading for academic purposes. London: Edward
Arnold. Mitchel , D.C. 1982. The process of reading. Chichester, NY: John
Wiley. Nuttall, C. 1982. Teaching reading skills in a foreign language. London:
Heinemann. Widdowson, H. 1983. Learning purpose and language use. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. http://en.wikipedia.org http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk http://www.teachersdesk.com