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Teaching Reading Comprehension

Teaching Reading Comprehension. Processes involved in reading comprehension: Bottom –up models : text-driven Top-down models : reader-driven Native language reader models differ from SLA reading. Intensive reading Extensive reading Grellet: Skimming Scanning Intensive Extensive.

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Teaching Reading Comprehension

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  1. Teaching Reading Comprehension • Processes involved in reading comprehension: • Bottom –up models : text-driven • Top-down models : reader-driven • Native language reader models differ from SLA reading

  2. Intensive reading • Extensive reading • Grellet: • Skimming • Scanning • Intensive • Extensive

  3. Reading Tasks • Novice/intermediate • Anticipation/prediction • Pre-reading • Skimming • Gisting • Detecting functions of texts • Scanning

  4. Extracting specific information • Contextual guessing • Simple cloze (multiple choice) • Filling out forms • Comprehension checks • Clue searching • Making inferences • Scrambled stories

  5. Resume • Passage completion • Identifying sociolinguistic features • Identifying discourse structure • Identifying link words/referents

  6. Techniques for Teaching reading Skills • Pre-teaching • Brainstorming to generate ideas • Looking at visuals • Predicting or hypothesizing

  7. Skimming/Scanning • Getting the gist • Identifying main ideas • Selecting the best paraphrase • Filing in chartts or forms with key concepts • Creating titles • Making global judgements

  8. Other stages • Decoding or intensive reading • Comprehension Stage • Transferable/integrating skills

  9. Sources for Reading Activities • Textbooks vs. realia • Newspapers, magazines and other sources • Photographs (sequence of pictures) • Web-based materials.

  10. Activities • Analyze Pre-reading activity in p.210 • Skimming activity in page 215. • Extracting specific information p.216

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