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Date: 2025.05.31. Chapter 1: Teaching Reading.

3. Reading Skills and Sub-skills. 1. Objectives. 6. Lesson Planning for Reading Lessons.

5. Teaching Principles. Discuss key principles for teaching reading..

Example task strategy: Using knowledge of typical interaction patterns (like ordering a taxi) to understand spoken text..

Example identified as a Bottom-Up strategy in a task: Listening carefully to find a specific word..

Combined Interactive Approach. Includes aspects of both intensive and extensive reading..

Often how students process texts like novel chapters or magazine articles in classrooms, using true/false or other comprehension questions..

Extensive Reading. Motivation is key; students should read interesting and enjoyable materials..

Identified as a top-down skill.. Purpose: Discover key topics, main ideas, overall theme, basic structure..

Move eyes quickly over text to locate a specific piece of information..

Background knowledge significantly influences comprehension..

3. 5. 4. Vocabulary Considerations. 2. 1. Consider: What vocabulary is needed? How will they learn? How best to test?.

Students focus on engaging with meaning and developing ideas, not just retrieving information..

Over-emphasis on accuracy can impede fluency.. Content Analysis.

There is no single set of strategies that guarantees success; strategic reading involves knowing what strategy to use, how to use it, and integrating a range of strategies..

Readers play an active role in strategic reading..

Necessary for a coherent lesson structure.. Why Stages (Pre-While-Post)?.

Aims: Generate interest, build confidence, facilitate comprehension..

Pre-reading Stage. Example Activities: • Speed chatting (short Q&A on topic, timed pair work). • Discussion (agree/disagree with opinions, discuss reasons). • Brainstorming (ideas on topic, organize ideas, share). • Pictures (groups connect pictures to guess topic). • The title (groups pool knowledge based on title). •Story telling (teacher tells a short, personalized story related to topic). • Short conversations (pair work, limited words per turn, about a sentence from text). • Pictionary (drawing key words for teams to guess). • Purpose (give students discussion questions before reading to guide their focus). • Videos (watch short video on topic, discuss with partner). • Introduction & lead-in: Get learners interested, initial discussion, link topic to students' lives, focus on important language. • First task: Predict from extracted info (illustration, keywords, headlines), read questions about text, students compose questions..

Pre-reading Stage. Example Activities: • Discuss relevant experiences. • Associate vocabulary with the topic. •Predict information about the topic. •Write questions about the topic. •Mind map (brainstorm related words). •Slide show (discuss images related to topic). •KWL Chart (What they Know, Want to know, will learn). •Words on the board (make sentences with key words). •Discussion questions (discuss pre-set questions on topic). •Gap fill (complete sentences related to topic with own ideas). •Questions (generate questions about topic using question words). •Exploring pictures (describe/react to pictures of gardens). •Recalling a dream (teacher tells related dream, elicits vocabulary/reactions)..

Speed-reading should be timed.. Learners should read silently at a fairly good speed..

Example Activities: •Answering gist questions. •Answering more detailed questions (true/false, multiple choice). •Tasks focusing on fast reading for gist (skimming): Check text against predictions, guess the title, put events/illustrations in order. •Tasks focusing on fast reading to locate specific information (scanning). •Tasks focusing on meaning (general points): Answer questions, use text info to do something (sketch, fill form, identify picture), discuss issues, summarise, compare viewpoints. •Tasks focusing on meaning (finer points of detail, more intensive comprehension). •Gather the gist of the topic. •Identify supportive details about the topic. •Answer questions. •Complete sentences. •Complete a chart, map, graph, note page, etc..

Example Activities: •Summarize. •Retell. •Role-play a part of the story. •Ask questions. •Extend to another reading. •Complete an Exit Slip. •Identifying differences (teacher reads text with changes, students find differences). •TV reporters (groups sum up highlights). •Main ideas list (students list main ideas, e.g., in order of importance). •Debate (students take sides on an issue). •Summarizing (identify main ideas, purpose, distinguish relevant/irrelevant info, note evidence, follow pattern). Students share/discuss summaries. •Teacher-absent student (one student explains lesson to another). Helps students decide important aspects. •Interactive dictation (Running/Walking Dictation) – students dictate/write text sections in groups, then correct based on original. •Follow-on task: Role play, debate, writing task (e.g., letter), personalization (e.g., linking text to own experience). •Closing: Conclude lesson, tie up loose ends, review. •Give opinions. •Relate similar experiences. •Role-play a similar interaction. •Write a brief report. •Write similar text. •Debate the topic..

Lesson planning is involved in helping improve students' reading skills..

Lesson planning is involved in helping improve students' reading skills..