Jessy Lostaunau de Jimenez

READING
An interactive process?

A linear process?

THE NATURE OF LEARNING TO READ

Botton-up process Top-down process

Schema theory

THE SCHEMA THEORY AND THE READING PROCESS

Content schemata

Formal schemata

Activating and building schemata

THE MECHANICS OF READING

Scanning
Search for the shape of words or phrases as well as their meaning. (Details, specific information).

Skimming

Ignore unfamiliar words. Search only for key ideas. (The gist).

APPLYING SCHEMA THEORY TO L2 READING

Pre-reading activities
Semantic map

Prediction Previewing

Pre-reading activities: Prediction

Predict the topic before you begin to read

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Pre-reading activities: Previewing

Jenny talks about her year in a public school

Pre-reading activities: Semantic Map

misbehavior

little homework

Public schools

big classes

no tuition

EFL TEXTBOOKS AND READING

Vocabulary development
Meaning, form, pronunciation, spelling, grammar, connotation, appropriateness, relationship, collocation

Extensive reading
For pleasure, fluency, confidence, and independence. Promotes writing skills and vocabulary acquisition

Discourse knowledge
The rhetorical organization of texts

Reading rate
Good readers read fast

THREE STAGES IN A READING LESSON

Pre-reading stage
Introduces the theme of the text before students start reading. Helps students to get an idea of what the text will be about. Creates interest in the topic.

While reading stage

Leads students to think about the meaning of the text. Guides toward relevant information Focuses their attention on the main idea or ideas and supporting

facts. Allows them to follow instructions and perform a task

Post reading stage

Offers a chance to evaluate students understanding of the text Gives a chance to develop other skills.

SOME IDEAS FOR PRE-READING ACTIVITIES

Get students to describe the illustration of the

text relating it to the title. Ask students to sit in groups and discuss how much they know about the theme of the text. Write three statements on the board and encourage students to choose the one they think will be the topic sentence. Invite groups of students to write 5 questions on things they would like the text to answer.

SOME IDEAS FOR WHILE READING ACTIVITIES

Tell students to take notes of relevant

information or things they would like to know. Tell them to write questions about the reading they would like to ask classmates or teacher. Ask them to underline the main idea or ideas. Write some incomplete sentences on the board and ask them to complete the information while they are reading. Ask them to take notes of the new expressions and/or words.

SOME IDEAS FOR POST READING ACTIVITIES

Ask them to continue the story. Ask them to take the role of any of the characters

in the reading. Have them summarize the information Have them tell the story changing the situation. Ask them to write a report about the text. Ask them to write the events in chronological order. Get the students to identify transition signals and how they work.

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