A Short Course in Teaching Reading

Practical Techniques for Building Reading Power

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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This revision of the classical practical handbook A Short Course in Teaching Reading Skills combines reading theory with practical classroom application. An invaluable resource to the reading teacher, teacher-in-training, or administrator who wants to stress quality reading comprehension instruction, the principles apply to teenage through adult learnerers who already have basic decoding skills.

Features

Part I defines the reading process, reviews recent research, and models an ESL/EFL reading course.

Part II outlines why and how to set up an extensive reading program.

Part III describes and models how to teach effective reading skills.

Part III also includes intensive reading lessons that enable students to strategically apply reading skills.

Appendices include high frequency word lists and common collocations in academic texts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-06-30
Mått210 x 276 x 15 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
Upplaga2
FörlagPearson Education
ISBN9780131363854

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Introduction and BackgroundPART I: Reading and Literacy: Some ConnectionsWhat Is Reading?What Is Literacy?How Are Language, Culture, and Literacy Connected?What Do Educational Researchers Recommend?What Do ESL/EFL Students Need?PART II: Extensive ReadingWhat Is Extensive Reading?Why Is Extensive Reading Important?What Should Students Read for Extensive Reading?When Should Students Read Extensively?How Can a Teacher Implement an Extensive Reading Component?Why Is Extensive Reading So Successful?PART III: Teaching Reading SkillsA. Rationale and Methodology1. What Are Reading Skills?2. Focusing on Specific Skills3. Teaching Interactive, Skill-Focused Lessons4. Applying the Skills in Intensive Reading Lessons5. Notes About the Sample Exercises6. Scheduling Activities in Your Reading ClassB: Activating Background Knowledge and Conceptual Frameworks1. Previewing2. Predicting3. SkimmingC. Developing Reading Fluency: Learning Not to Read Every Word1. Cloze Exercises2. Scanning3. Reading FasterD. Improving Bottom-up Processing1. Perceptual Skills: Recognizing English Letters and Words2. Automatic Decoding3. Linguistic Features and Bottom-up Processing4. Lexical Items That Signal Textual Cohesion5. Lexical Items That Signal Textual OrganizationE. Vocabulary Building1. Sources of Words for Vocabulary Teaching and Learning2. Direct Instruction of Selected Vocabulary3. Strategies for Vocabulary BuildingF. Text Structure and Comprehension: Topics and Main Ideas1. Understanding Sentences2. Topics and Main IdeasG. Text Structure and Comprehension: Patterns of Organization1. Frequently Used Patterns in English2. Four of the Easiest Patterns to Learn3. Practice in Identifying the Four Patterns4. Two More Difficult Patterns to LearnH. Strategic Reading and Study Skills1. Reading Longer Passages2. Summarizing3. Study Reading4. Critical ReadingAppendix I — Further discussion of selected topics mentioned in the bookAppendix II — Phonemes and their spellingAppendix III - High frequency word listsAppendix IV: Table of common collocations in academic textsAppendix V — Answer key for selected skills exercisesBibliography