How to teach reading (lớp 12)

FACILITATING READING TASKS Nguoi huong dan :Nguyen Thi Lien BEFORE-YOU-READ  Activate students’ previous knowledge  Unit 1 – Home Life: Talk about students’ own home life  Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity: Wedding Puzzle  Unit 13 – Seagames: Seagames Fact Quiz  Build students’ knowledge of the topic  Unit 2 - Cultural Diversity: What is cultural diversity?  Unit 3 – Ways of Socializing: What is socializing? What is verbal communication? What is non-verbal behavior?  Unit 14 – International Organizations: What are these organizations? BEFORE-YOU-READ  Get students familiar with some key vocabulary  Unit 3 – Ways of socializing: Act out the verbs  Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary) before reading  Motivate students to read  Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate the words (key vocab.)  Make them curious by asking questions  they can find the answers in the reading. BEFORE-YOU-READ  Help students understand the tasks  Get students read the questions first  Help students with difficult expressions in the questions  Check to make sure students understand the questions WHILE-YOU-READ  Reduce the load  Break the passage into smaller parts  Unit 7 - Economic Reforms: Before Doi Moi – Government’s actions – After Doi Moi  Vocabulary-in-context tasks: help students locate the words; provide examples; provide other contexts;etc.  Change the task: Unit 2 – Task 1  Matching; MCQ… WHILE-YOU-READ  Help students to understand the text before get them to answer the questions  Timeline  Table/Chart  Map  Visuals WHILE-YOU-READ  Check students’ understanding  Ask for evidence  Check on understanding of contents: Elaborate on the answers  Check on understanding of language contents WHILE-YOU-READ  Develop skills  Skimming: Which sentence = most important  Vocab-in-context: How you arrive at the meaning is more important than the meaning itself  Scanning: Find the information  read around  Etc. AFTER-YOU-READ  Adapt tasks  Life in the future: robots  travel/ work  Higher education: Talking about subjects  Summarize the reading contents FINAL NOTES  Careful pre-teaching  better understanding  Understand the text first, answer questions later  Being able to relate to the reading contents  students more interested  Answering the questions correctly # comprehending . the verbs  Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary) before reading  Motivate students to read  Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate the words. Summarize the reading contents FINAL NOTES  Careful pre-teaching  better understanding  Understand the text first, answer questions later  Being able to relate