Developing Reading

Comprehension
Nguyen Thi Huong Lan,
PhD
Hanoi, 8/2023
Tiếng Anh 10
Global Success
 Reading stages
Handout 1: Identify Task types in each READING stage

Q&A, MCQ, GAP/BLANK FILL, T/F, IDENTIFY (multiple OPTIONS), …

 06 Comprehension Habits
Match the comprehension habits with “How well a reader …”
1. Understanding and remembering word meanings
2. Connecting to background knowledge
3. Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing
4. Making inferences and predictions
5. Generating and answering questions
6. Monitoring one’s own comprehension
 Understanding and remembering word meanings
Using context clues with text signals

Explanation or definition
Synonym or restatement
Antonym or contrast
Cause and effect
Examples of the word
Explanation or definition
 Practice

Read the passages from Tieng Anh 10 Global success and

find at least 5 sample sentences giving explanation or
definition.
Explanation or definition
(Unit 9, p.103)
Explanation or definition
Unit 6 (p.69)
Synonym or restatement
 Practice

Read the passages from Tieng Anh 10 Global success and

find at least 5 sample sentences using synonym or
restatement.
Synonym or restatement
(Unit 6 p.69)
Antonym or contrast
 Practice

Read the passages from Tieng Anh 10 Global success and

find at least 5 sample sentences using antonym or
contrast.
Antonym or contrast
Unit 3 (p.31)
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
 Practice

Read the passages from Tieng Anh 10 Global success and

find at least 5 sample sentences “cause-effect”
 Cause and effect
Unit 2 (p.21), review 1 (p.40)
Examples of the word
 Practice

Read the passages from Tieng Anh 10 Global success and

find at least 5 sample sentences using examples of the
word.
Examples of the word
Review 2 (p.64)
Understanding and remembering word meanings
Using context without signals

• Pictorial context: Pictures

• Syntactic context: Using the location of the word in a sentence
to figure out its grammar role, which helps us figure out its
meaning

Note: Verbs and nouns tend to be more important than adjectives

and adverbs in most texts.
 Connecting to background knowledge

• Text structure graphic organizers

 Text structure graphic organizers

This activity trains students

to recognize the common
forms of text structure.

Note: a text may contain

more than one (or even all)
the types of text structures
that follow.
Text structure graphic organizers
 Organizing text information by sculpting the
main idea and summarizing

• Categorization
• Classification
Categorization
Classification
Main idea formula
Main idea formula
Matrices
Main-ideas-first Webbing
 Table/sentence completion

• Quickly look for words and phrases in the passage which

mean the same as words and phrases in the table/sentence
(for example: not many – few; well-known – famous),
then read around those words carefully.
• Copy the words from the passage into the table exactly as
you see them.
 Table/sentence completion

Practice: Unit 9
Short-answer questions
 Short-answer questions

Practice Unit 1
True/False/Not given
 True/False/Not given

Practice Unit 6
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