Reading strategies for efl learners 2018
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This document discusses research-supported reading strategies for English language learners. It describes pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading strategies that teachers can use. Some example pre-reading strategies include predicting, brainstorming, and connecting text to students' lives. Example during-reading strategies include predicting, peer summaries, and creating questions. Post-reading strategies help students master vocabulary, reinforce comprehension, and include summarizing, reviewing, and questioning. The document provides examples of specific strategies teachers can implement at each stage of the reading process.
Reading strategies for efl learners 2018
- 1. Reading Strategies for EFL Learners RESEARCH-SUPPORTED READING STRATEGIES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
- 2. Welcome back! Thank you for patience, sending homework, posting on Google Classroom! Work today and tomorrow with sending comments and detailed feedback If you were not able to email me homework, please give me homework today or tomorrow. Let me know if you need me to print or email any documents. Changes to class plan
- 3. Today… (and a little bit tomorrow) Quickly review the Reading Strategies PPT Share ideas for activities related to sample reading “Running Around the World” Peer teaching and reflection
- 4. Help language learners connect new language functions and vocabulary to existing knowledge. Help language learners improve comprehension by using selective attention Help language learner organize, synthesize, and produce language based on their reading.
- 5. Reading Strategies A good reading lesson will use pre-reading, during- reading, and post-reading activities to maximize engagement, comprehension, and retention of language and information.
- 6. Pre-Reading Strategies Pre-reading strategies prepare learners for reading by activating prior knowledge and vocabulary and language functions related to a topic. Pre-reading strategies motivate students. Pre-reading strategies can relate content to students’ lives.
- 7. Pre-Reading Strategies A few pre-reading strategies for language learners in the elementary grades include: • Predicting • Brainstorming • Connecting to their own lives
- 8. Pre-Reading Strategies •Predicting what the text is about using the external text features: the picture, the title in bold, the subtitle, the type of the text •Use pictures in the text to make guesses about information in the text •Use a picture related to the topic to brainstorm as many words as possible related to the text •Ask Ss to connect the topic to personal lives and provide examples •Use a KWL Chart: (See next slide) •Use a word web to have students think of words related to a key character, subject, or aspect of the reading •Have a whole class discussion about a topic
- 9. Students fill in the column of what they "KNOW," and what they "WANT" to know about a topic. They fill in what they “LEARNED” after they have read the text.
- 10. Word Web
- 11. example
- 12. Your turn What pre-reading strategies would you use to teach this reading? What pre-reading vocabulary strategies would you use to teach this reading?
- 13. Peer Teaching: Pre-reading strategy Does the activity….? Activate prior knowledge and vocabulary Motivate students Relate content to students’ lives
- 14. During-Reading Strategies During –reading strategies maximize student comprehension of material by actively engaging the reader with the material, questioning, evaluating, summarizing.
- 15. During-Reading Strategies A few during-reading strategies are: •Predicting •Peer summaries •Creating questions Can you think of some others?
- 16. During Reading Strategies Inventory of vocabulary Have students circle or note unknown words, always using context to make a guess about meaning that they’ll check with the teacher or a dictionary after reading.
- 17. During Reading Strategies Directed-reading-thinking activity (DRTA): •In pairs, students make a prediction for the first paragraph based on the title. •After reading that paragraph aloud, they should evaluate whether their prediction was right or wrong. Then, they should try to predict what will happen next, writing down their prediction. •After that paragraph, they evaluate their prediction and make another for the subsequent paragraph. Summarizing with a partner: Have students read in pairs and summarize each paragraph for each other, ensuring that both understand.
- 18. During Reading Strategies Self-monitoring: Ask students to summarize each paragraph as the read, writing a short note to themselves. Ask them to evaluate their own comprehension or reaction to each paragraph with symbols such as: (I know this) ! (interesting) ? (unclear) C (connection)
- 19. During Reading Strategies Weather Recreation Holidays Winter Spring Summer Fall Semantic Map/Graphic Organizer: Ask students to take notes using a semantic map or graphic organizer
- 21. Venn Diagram
- 23. Review
- 24. During Reading Strategies What during reading strategies would you use to teach this reading? What during reading vocabulary strategies would you use to teach this reading?
- 25. Peer Teaching: During reading strategy Does the activity…? Maximize student comprehension of material Actively engage the reader with the material Incorporate activities such as questioning, evaluating, and summarizing
- 26. Post-Reading Strategies Post-reading strategies help students to master vocabulary, reinforce and increase comprehension, and build productive language related to the reading.
- 27. Post-Reading Strategies A few post-reading strategies are: Summarizing Reviewing Questioning What others can you think of?
- 28. Post-Reading Strategies Visual summary Ask students to make a story board using pictures to summarize what they read. KWL Chart: Ask students to fill in the “L” column of the KWL and then share class-wide Review Ask students to review predictions, new vocabulary, clicks and clunks, and key questions raised by the reading. Review graphic organizers.
- 29. Post-Reading Strategies Design questions/quiz show: Have students develop questions to pose to another team about the reading. Role play Have students role play what they’ve read Art show Ask students to draw pictures of the main character or main point and then explain their pictures to the class or in a group.
- 30. Trivia Show
- 31. Post Reading Strategies What post-reading strategies would you use to teach this reading? What post-reading vocabulary strategies would you use to teach this reading?
- 32. Peer Teaching: Post-reading strategy Does the activity…? Help students to master vocabulary Reinforce and increase comprehension Build productive language related to the reading
- 34. Homework Think of a reading activity you would do for your class: What pre-reading, during reading, and post- reading strategies would you use for that class? Write them down in your notebook; be ready to share in class!
Editor's Notes
- #7: Show clips of tribes, people, etc.