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How to teach Reading Designed by Hue Vu How to teach reading Lead in Should reading be taught? If yes, what should be taught about reading? How to teach reading Reading types Intensive reading:students read the text slowly and concentrate hard on the meaning, words or sentence structures used in the text Extensive reading: students read long texts rapidly often for pleasure with emphasis on general meaning How to teach reading Reading types Strategic reading: the ability of the reader to use a wide variety of reading strategies to accomplish a purpose of reading Fluent reading: the ability to read at an appropriate rate with adequate comprehension How to teach reading Reading skills Scanning Skimming Predicting Reading for detailed information Guessing Using a dictionary Inferring How to teach reading Principles of teaching reading Reading is not a passive skill Students need to be engaged with what they are reading Students should be encouraged to respond to the content of the text, not just the language Prediction is a major factor of reading Match the task to the topic Good teachers exploit the reading text to the full How to teach reading Stages of a reading lesson Pre-reading stage The pre-reading should be implemented to activate and build knowledge of learners or motivate students to read as well as let them be familiar with some of the language needed in coping with the text giving them a context and by pre-teaching some of the most difficult language stimulating interest by setting the scene encouraging them to make predictions about the contents of the text from the title giving students a clear and authentic purpose for reading the text asking them one/two guiding questions How to teach reading While-reading stage The while-reading stage intends to help students to understand the specific content and the rhetorical structure of the text Teachers use questions and tasks to practice appropriate skills and to make students aware of those skills Teachers might - allow students to read silently, using different skills and strategies - encourage speed in reading, give a time limit - allow students to co-operate and help each other - check students’ reading comprehension by using different questions/tasks/activities (True/false, matching, multiple choice …) - ask students to guess the meaning of the new words How to teach reading The last stage is post reading which aims reviewing the content, work on bottom-up concerns such as grammar, vocabulary and discourse feature and consolidate what has been read relating the information from the text to the students’ knowledge, interests and opinions Teachers consolidate the language materials having been taught by a variety of writing/speaking/ listening activities or tasks .. .How to teach reading Lead in Should reading be taught? If yes, what should be taught about reading? How to teach reading Reading types Intensive reading: students read... wide variety of reading strategies to accomplish a purpose of reading Fluent reading: the ability to read at an appropriate rate with adequate comprehension How to teach reading Reading skills... topic Good teachers exploit the reading text to the full How to teach reading Stages of a reading lesson Pre -reading stage The pre -reading should be implemented to activate and build knowledge