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Principles for Teaching Reading

Principles for Teaching Reading. Exploit the reader ’ s background knowledge Build a strong vocabulary base Teach for comprehension Work on increasing reading rate Teach reading strategies Encourage reader ’ s to transform strategies into skills

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Principles for Teaching Reading

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  1. Principles for Teaching Reading • Exploit the reader’s background knowledge • Build a strong vocabulary base • Teach for comprehension • Work on increasing reading rate • Teach reading strategies • Encourage reader’s to transform strategies into skills • Build assessment and evaluation into your teaching • Strive for continuous improvement as a reading teacher

  2. A – C – T – I – V – E • Activate prior knowledge • Cultivate vocabulary • Teach for comprehension • Increase reading rate • Verify reading strategies • Evaluate progress

  3. Reading Route Map (P) Warm-up questions (P) Vocabulary work (P) Predictions (D) Main ideas (D) Details (D) Section summaries (D) Graphic organizer (P) Comprehension and discussion questions (P) Vocabulary review (P) Extension activity/project

  4. Prereading Activities • Discuss warm-up questions or brainstorm about the topic • Use pictures, video, realia • Preview the text (title, section headings, pictures, etc.) • Make predictions • Set a purpose • Explore key vocabulary and expressions • Start filling out a graphic organizer (e.g. K-W-L) • Do an experiential activity

  5. During Reading Activities • Underline, highlight, and/or take notes • Identify main idea(s) and details (discern relationships) • Ask and answer questions (to clarify understanding) • Pause to recall, reflect on, and organize new information • Make connections • Summarize sections (to confirm comprehension) • Look for prereading activity answers • Fill out a graphic organizer • Use context clues (vocabulary) • Infer and draw conclusions • Reread (important parts and difficult passages)

  6. Postreading Activities • Check comprehension (questions, T/F, rank or list, etc.) • Discuss with others (share ideas, express opinions) • Address any confusion or questions about the text • Review vocabulary and expressions • Complete a graphic organizer • Summarize, paraphrase, retell or order (scramble) • Synthesize information (combine new and existing) • Analyze ideas in text and apply to broader context • Review notes and evaluate understanding • Reflect on strategies that help the most and least and why • Extension activities (projects)

  7. Comprehension Questions • Literal comprehension (understand the meaning) • Reorganization (combine information from different parts) • Inference (identify what is not explicitly stated) • Prediction (try to determine what might happen next) • Evaluation (give a global or comprehensive judgment) • Personal response (reader responds with his/her feelings) • Yes/No questions • Alternative questions (or) • True/False questions • Wh- and how questions • Multiple choice questions

  8. Extensive Reading Framework • The reading material is easy. • Variety of reading material on wide range of topics is available. • Learners choose what they want to read. • Learners read as much as possible. • Reading speed is usually faster than slower. • Reading purpose is for pleasure, information, understanding. • Reading is individual and silent. • Reading is its own reward. • The teacher orients and guides the students. • The teacher is a role model of a reader.

  9. Extensive Reading Benefits • Provides “comprehensible input” • Can improves learners’ general language competence • Can enhance students’ general knowledge • Motivates learners to read • Consolidates and increases vocabulary knowledge • Can lead to improvements in writing (to include grammar) • Can develop autonomous learning

  10. Intensive Reading • Underlining • Annotating • Summarizing • Scanning • Skimming • Context clues

  11. Newspapers • Collecting (plan in advance and build a stash) • Choosing (interesting and appropriate level) • Organizing (sections, themes and topics, language skills) • Making accessible (pre, during, and post activities) • Features (headlines, articles, pictures, ads, weather, comics) • Importance (educational, never-ending supply, current) • *Activity (“Three-minute Warning”)

  12. Graphic Organizers • Cause and Effect Contraption • Follow the Clues • Story Board • KWL • Comparing Characters • Character Chart • What’s the Main Idea

  13. Literature Circles • Discussion Director • Artful Adventurer and Character Specialist • Literary Luminary • Connector • Vocabulary and Comprehension Master

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