Teaching reading
- 1. Hi there, are you ok? I’m Teaching Reading teaching reading; and there are many reasons why wetting students to read English texts is an important part of the teacher’s job. I’m OK, I agree, many students want to be able t o read text in English for study purposes or simply for pleasure.
- 2. Reading is useful for language acquisition, I think so. Reading also has a positive effect on students’ vocabulary knowledge, on their spelling and their writing.
- 3. Good Reading texts can introduce interesting topics, stimulate discussion, excite imaginative responses and provide fascinating lessons. We can encourage students to focus on vocabulary, grammar or punctuation.
- 4. We need to encourage students to read as often and as much as possible; it is a good idea to discuss this principle whit students. Our students need to be engaged whit what they are Reading; that is, we should try to help them get as much pleasure from it as possible.
- 5. My angle is: prediction is a major factor in Reading such as: photographs and headlines hint at what articles are about; we can identify reports from their appearance before we read a single word. We need to integrate the Reading tex tinto interesting lesson sequences, using the topic for discussion and use a range of activities to bring the text to life.
- 6. Reading suggestions Jigsaw Reading Using Reading puzzles newspapers Students read We can give We can do all a short text them texts kinds of which sets up which have matching a problem been chopped exercises, such and then, in up so that as ones where three groups, each students have they read paragraph is to match three on a different articles whit different piece of paper. their headlines texts, all of or whit which are relevant about the pictures. same thing such as: different aspects of behavior, different reports on a problem.