Teaching reading

strategies – revision
Reading may be a more active process than we think.
Presenter: Anh Đào
 Reasons for reading
- Reading texts for study purposes or simple for pleasure.
- Be useful for language acquisition.
- Reading text can be a good model for writing.
- Introducing interesting topics, stimulate discussion.
- Exciting imaginative responses.
- Providing the springboard for well-rounded, fascinating lesson.
 Different kinds of reading
1, Intensive reading
- Refer to the detailed focus on the construction of reading texts, taking place
usually in classroom.
- Read magazines, poems, internet websites, novels….and other text genres.
- Be usually accompanied by study activities.
2, Extensive reading
- Refer to read for pleasure or joyful reading
- Read novels, web pages, newspapers ….
 Different kinds of reading
1. Reading for learning language
- Be examples of a target language structure or vocabulary in context
(stories, songs in FA, reading texts)
2. Readings for skills development
- Help students improve reading technique
- Prepare for English tests or exams
- Use English to teach another subject like social sciences, math, ….
 Reading skills
1, Scanning skills
- Scan texts for particular bits of information (phone numbers, names or other
details).
- Do not have to read every word and line of a full text.
2, Skimming skills
- Skim the texts for general information or ideas.
3, Reading for detailed comprehension
- Do the best to offer a mixture of materials and activities.
How do you scan?

1, When did King Henry VII first

introduce “Beefeaters?
2, What are the Beefeaters well-
known for?
How do you skim?

1. What is a typical weekday

in his life like?
2. How does he cope with
school and basketball
practice?
 Reading principles
- Encourage students to read as often and as much as possible
- Need to engage learners with what they are reading
- Encourage students to respond to the content of a text
- Prediction is a major factor in reading
- Match the task to the topic when using intensive reading texts
- Good teachers exploit reading text to the full
Teaching reading stages
 Teaching reading stages

Pre-teach Teach Post teach

• Introduce texts • Reading for gist • Read more with

• Prediction • Reading for further activities
specific • Discussion
information
• Practice reading
 Pre teach reading
- Elicit or provide appropriate background knowledge.
- Activate necessary schemata.
- Arouse their interest and help them approach the text in a more meaningful
and purposeful manner.
- Help all students have same reading direction and orientation.
 Introduce reading texts
• Make it personal – share personal experience
• Start with image or video
• Draw or make something
• Activate prior knowledge
• Invite student discussion
• ………………………….
 Example: Make it personal

I collect
these
Example: Use video
What do you know about these idols?
 Example: make things
• A competition of making a card for Ms. Teacher’s birthday in 4 minutes.
• Give students a paper and some colors
• Ask them to work in pairs or groups
• After all, ask students to share what they think about making a card.
 Reading stages – Pre teach reading –
prediction
- From title
- From the illustration
- From the kind of the text
- From the headline
- From scanning or skimming activities
 Pre teaching reading activities
- Discussing author or text type.
- Reviewing vocabulary or grammatical structures.
- Providing opportunities for group or collaborative work and for class discussion
activities.
- Reading over the comprehension questions to focus attention on finding that
information while reading.
- Using the title, subtitles, and divisions within the text to predict content and
organization or sequence of information.
 Pre teaching reading activities
- Looking at pictures, maps, diagrams or graphs and their captions
- Talking about the author’s background, writing style, and usual topics
- Skimming to find the theme or main idea and eliciting related prior
knowledge
- Reading over the comprehension questions to focus attention on finding
that information while reading
- Doing guided practice with guessing meaning from context or checking
 Example: class discussion activities

- Have students work

in groups
- Tell them to order
the picture
- Guide them to
explain why that
order is.
- Ask them to listen
and check.
Example: discussion
 Example: discussion or survey or quiz
- Ask students to What do you know What do you think What do you want to
work in groups about Black Pink? you know about know about them?
- Together answer them?
the questions.
- - -
- Tell them that
- - -
they are going to
- - -
check if you
know well or
self-answer their
questions atter
reading the text.
Quizzes:
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f4c9fb963ec72001b40f1e6/blackpink
What do you know about these idols?
 While teaching
- Help students develop reading strategies.
- Improve their control of the foreign language.
- Decode problematic text passages.
- Strengthen students’ language (vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation).
- Help students be more confident in the other skills.
 While teaching reading stages - reading for
Gist
- Focus on more general aspects of the text, such as genre, target audience,
intention of the writer, context, main points.
- Require learners to read the text only once.
- Do not require students to focus on specific pieces of information or words.
- Note: drive students far away from new words.
 While teaching reading stages - reading for
Gist - tips
- Ask students to choose the best title for a text.
- Ask students to identify the authors’ attitude or opinion.
- Ask students to identify the text genre.
- Find the main ideas from the text by the different reading activities.
 Reading for specific information

- Use both skimming and scanning skills to find the information

- Read the text quickly focusing only on the targeted information
 Practice reading activities
- Controlled reading activities
- Practice reading activities
- Self reading activities
 Controlled reading activities
- Listen to the recording or teachers’
voice
- Listen and repeat
- Read out the text
- Reading with different tasks: read
with feelings, read with actions…
 Controlled reading Activities
- Order the text
- Gap-fill reading text
- Disappearing paragraph
- Jigsaw Gap- fill
- Teach each other
- Text around the room with questions
- Find mistakes
……………………………
Example: jigsaw gap-filling
Example: matching
 Practice reading activities
- Comprehension
- True or false – how true or how false
- Text quiz
- Summarize
- Information transfer
- Classify the information
- Order the information
- What’s the question
 Example: classify information
• Read and complete the table
Tony Emily Mark

Age 9

Collection

Number

Where

Other Give friends some

Example of information transfer

Ask a student to read text out then the teams

draw the directions
 Post reading stage
- Help students understand texts further.
- Help readers summarize, reflect or question what
they’ve just read.
- Build reading comprehension skill.
- Increase vocabulary range, grammar use and
pronunciation.
- Develop learner’s critical thinking.
- Develop other skills.
 Post reading activities
- Creative discussion about content, context, teaching and learning process
or valuable lesson.
- Solve the problem or question in pre-teaching task.
- Finding the related news.
 Post reading activities
• Role play
• Retell
• Vocabulary review
• Discussion
• Further questions
• Valuable lesson
• Feedback both from teachers and students
Example: role play, retell, value
Example: review language target

Revise all the language target

with “hotseat game”
 Teaching reading problems
• Control time
• Care a lot of new words
• Correct information
• Check a lot of linguistic mistakes
• Don’t believe or over believe on student’s abilities.
• …………………..
 References
• https://busyteacher.org/teaching_ideas_and_techniques-worksheets/
• https://www.britishcouncil.vn/
• Teaching methodology course books from HANU and ULIS Universities
• Others
• Thank you for paying attention!