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Lam Thao lower secondary

school

By: Trieu Hong Quan

Coordinator: Tran Ngoc Duong

Slideshow by Mr Hai

How to teach reading

Teaching reading

• Please give principles for teaching reading

I Principles for teaching reading:

1 When teaching a reading text, it’s beneficial to state a purpose for reading the given text , tell students why they are reading the text

2 Prepare the sts to read by introducing the topic of the

passage (discussion)

3 Before reading the text, have sts read questions about it beforehand

to help them focus on the meaning.

4 Do not pre- teach vocabulary unless necessary (sts can guess the meaning of unknown words).

5 Have sts read silently without whispering the words or moving their lips.

6 Discuss difficult vocabulary after reading the text , if necessary

7 When discussing the answers to comprehension questions, be sure to refer back to the text This will help the sts practice finding the answers themselves.

8 .Finally, remember to focus on developing the skills of the readers.

teaching reading

–II Stages of teaching reading:

* How many stages are there in a teaching reading lesson?

- Pre-reading

- While-reading

- Post-reading

teaching reading

1 In Pre-reading:

What activities do you have before teaching reading ?

1.1 Pre-reading activities/ situation setting/ setting a context:

1.1.1 Introduce the text: Lead sts to the topic/text they are going to read (Pictures,Questioning,Discussing,Brainstorming;real objects…)

Eg: Unit 15 - G6

You can turn

right

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•Eg: English 6 - Unit 8 - C: Road signs

You can’t park here

* Questioning: eg: Unit 1: Read (G7)

- Do you remember Hoa ?

-Is she a new student ?

P

You can park here

Bamboo

1.1.2 Pre- teaching difficult key words and phrases:

What techniques do you often use when presenting vocabulary ?

1.1.2.1 Techniques for teaching vocabulary:

* Pictures

* Guessing from the situation/ the context/ stems and affixes: - Eg: unhappy

sociable

reserved

kind

Techniques for checking vocabulary:

•Give the techniques for checking vocabulary?

•What and where.

customer

* Games

* Slap the board

* Guess the picture

-Teacher : Describe the picture to your students

- Students : Say what number it is.

notice

like 1 x o don…t fancy 2 X O o x interested (not be) O X

in

3 o x

X O

can…t stand 4 o x hate 5 X O o x love 6 X O x o

X O

prefer7 o enjoy8O X o don…t mind9O X o

City centre countryside

* Rub out and remember :

humid owner

customer

uniform

notice

clothes notice

* Bingo

III.Pre- Questions:

What activities do you often have?

•True- False prediction.

1 Nga, Ba, Nam are students in class 7A

2 They like sports very much.

3 Nga s favorite pastime is jogging.’

4 Ba likes collecting stamps.

5 Nam plays soccer every afternoon.

6 Nam usually watches TV.

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•2.1.While - Reading:

•Give activities in while-reading stage.

* Comprehension questions:

• Answer True- False ( True False statements)

Unit 6: After school G7–

1 What is Nga s theater group doing?’

2 How does Ba get American stamps?

3 When does the stamp collector s club meet?’

4 How often does Nam play games?

4 How often does Nam play games?

• Matching the questions to the answers:

teaching reading

• Answer given:

• Grid: True- false repetition:

• Find the word/ sentence that means…

• Answer given:

• Grid: * True- false repetition:

• Find the word/ sentence that means…

• Choose the correct answer

teaching reading

2.2 Post- Reading:

Give activities in post-reading stage.

• Summarize the text.

• Arrange the events in order.

• Give comments, opinions on the characters in the text

• Rewrite the stories from jumbled sentences/ words / visual cues

• Role - play basing on the text

• Develop an other story basing on the text

• Tell a similar event on…

•

Your Beliefs about Teaching

1 It is important to pre-teach all new

vocabulary before students read

the text

2 Students should only read good

literature in English Comics and

newspapers are bad for them in

school

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading

Dis-agree

Don’t know

3 My students don’t have the

opportunity to read outside school

so it is my responsibility to choose

suitable texts for them in school

4 Students need to read for a

purpose, not to read so that they

can just answer multiple choice

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading

Dis-agree

Don’t know

5 I don’t think students learn a lot

from reading things like

timetables, indexes, recipes,

directories

6 Using graded comprehension

questions is the only real way of

checking that students have

understood the text

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading

Dis-agree

Don’t know

7 The teacher’s job is to help

students learn to read by

themselves S/he cannot do the

reading for them

8 English newspapers are too

difficult for my students Students

should concentrate on reading

simplified texts from their

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading

Dis-agree

Don’t know

9 Getting students to read aloud is a

useful way of making them

understand what they are reading

10 The real purpose of reading is for

students to learn more about

grammar and how the written

language is constructed

11 If I don’t translate the text for my

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading

Dis-agree

Don’t know

12 Students don’t need to be aware of

the reading sub-skills like 'skimming'

and 'scanning' - that’s information

only the teacher needs to know

13 If I get my students to think about the

topic before they start reading, and try

to predict what the text is about , they

find the text easier to understand

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading comments

1 In Grammar-Translation, all new words are taught

/ translated, but it is better to pre-teach only a

few key words and teach students how to guess

the rest from context.

2 All kinds of reading materials should be

encouraged because different reading skills are

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading comments

3 It is unrealistic to think students will read on their

own - mostly because of lack of habit and lack of material.

4 However, a lot of 'schooling' and testing just

encourages a culture of 'right answers' instead of teaching the skill, the process of reading.

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading comments

6 This is the traditional way but not the only way

This module will present teachers with many

alternatives.

7 Reading is an individual skill Also, reading skills

cannot be developed through reading in groups.

Your Beliefs about Teaching

Reading comments

8 It is not so much about level of difficulty but about

reproducing authentic materials for large classes,

and finding time to use such material in an already

overcrowded time-table

9 This is the traditional approach for teaching

pronunciation, but reading aloud does not facilitate

comprehension, nor does it help students develop

like 1 x o don…t fancy 2 X O o x interested (not be) O X

in

3 o x

X O

can…t stand 4 o x hate 5 X O o x love 6 X O x o

X O

prefer7 o enjoy8O X o don…t mind9O X o

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• Eg: Unit 6: C1 (P.68 )

• Well (Picture)

• House (Picture) In front of # behind