Reading -Teach it not just test it

Barrie Roberts - IH Seville

•Lots of extensive practice

•Ss select own materials

•Lots of level-1 books

1) Reading for pleasure

•Greater vocabulary

•Read faster = understand more

•Notice language receptively

•More confident with the language

1) Reading for pleasure

Benefits:

2)Previewing

•Title

•Pictures

•First paragraph

•First line of other paragraphs

•Last sentence of last paragraph

•Names, dates & numbers

2)Previewing

2)Previewing

•Place text in context

•Judge level of difficulty

•Extract info without reading every

word

•Timed

•Help improve reading rate

2)Previewing

3)Predicting

•Find specific information

•Question in mind, looking for answer

•Should be timed

•Don’t have to understand every word

4) Scanning

4) Scanning

5) Guessing word meanings

•What kind of word is missing?

•Parts of speech, singular/plural,

negative/positive, affixes

•Give the words

•Limit the options

•Root words

5) Guessing word meanings

6) Topics

7) Patterns of organisation

7) Patterns of organisation4 common text patterns

7) Patterns of organisation

Time OrderListing

8) Reference wordsPronouns

They people

This Boston marathon

It Boston marathon

They runners….

9) Hyponyms: Specific to General

•Focus on the process not the answer

•Communicative

•Enjoyable! - Game-like activities

10) ...and finally!

•Reading Power - Beatrice S. Mikulecky

•More Reading Power - Beatrice S. Mikulecky /

Linda Jefferies

•Advanced Reading Power - Beatrice S. Mikulecky

/ Linda Jefferies

•Teaching Reading Skills as a Foreign Language -

Christine Nutall

Recommended books & notes

Reading -Teach it not just test it

Barrie Roberts - IH Seville

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