Teaching Reading

By Lidiya Ukhno, ESLTIrkliiv Secondary SchoolChornobai District

“In the real world, reading is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It is always a purposeful activity, and our job as teachers is to help students identify these different purposes and to master the strategies best suited to achieve them’’ Ken Hyland

Reading in Teaching a Foreing Language.

Benefits of reading

Educational importance Developing pupils’ intelligence As a means of learning a language As intellectual work Involving different kinds of abilities

Reading as a process&“reading per se” The reader can associate the

graphic system of the language with the phonic system of the language

The reader can find the logical subject and the logical predicate of the sentences

The reader can get information from the text

Two ways of reading.

READING ALOUD

READING ALOUD

Diagnostic reading

Diagnostic reading

Instructive reading

Instructive reading

Control readingControl reading

Two ways of reading

Silent readingSilent

reading

readread graspgrasp reproducereproduce

Helpful strategies

Previewing Predicting Skimming & scanning Guessing from context Paraphrasing

Using strategies

Pre-reading

Set a purpose or decide in advance what to read for

Decide if more linguistic or background knowledge is needed

Determine whether to enter the text from the top down or from the bottom up

While reading

Verify predictions and check for inaccurate guesses

Decide what is not important to understand

Reread to check comprehension Ask for help

Post- reading Evaluate comprehension in a

particular task of area Evaluate overall progress in reading

and in particular types of reading tasks

Decide if the strategies used were appropriate for the purpose and for the task

Modify strategies if necessary

How to work with the text

Grammar and lexical analyses Work with a dictionary Structural-information exercises Semantic-communicative exercises

Reading techniques

Junior stage Read & draw Here are the questions. Find the

answers in the text Find these sentences in the text Correct the following statements Retell the text Read the sentences you find the

most important in the text

Intermediate & senior stage

Answer the questions Tell your classmates what (who,

when, where, why…) Read the words (sentences or

paragraphs) to prove what you say Read the paragraph you like best Write a short summary of the text

Reading as the essence of students’ independent work

Interest Tasks Questions (Why? What for? What

would you do if…) Annotations

Note-making as a way of developing reading skills put "+" on the margins next to the

material which is familiar or correct; put "—" on the margins next to the

material which is absolutely new for them; put "?" on the margins next to the

material which is doubtful, debatable or vague.

put"!" on the margins next to the material which is quite .important.

Note-making as a way of developing reading skills

Pupils colour the important facts in red doubtful information in yellow

familiar data in blue some new facts in green.

How to teach reading successfully The teachers must be well acquainted with the class to

be able to select texts both for the whole class and for individual reading

They must stimulate wide reading through the School Library

They must prepare assignments to direct pupils’ reading The teachers must determine what & how much pupils

should read (obligatory & of their own choice)

GOOD LUCK!

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