3. Teaching reading A reading lesson consists of three parts: pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading. Pre-reading can create confidence in learners and draw their attention. During this step the activities must be light and interesting. For example:
-learners look at the cover of the book and the pictures and make predictions about the content of the book or a story
-teacher introduces the new vocabulary
-teacher tells a story almost similar to the one in the book
-teacher brings in realia and acts out part of a story. Students make guesses
At the while-reading stage :
-the teacher reuses the vocabulary map, teaching learners to use words in different contexts,
-students list one sequence after another, making a story chain
-students identify grammar items
At the post-readingstage students can draw, imagine, do pole-play.. Reading involves various sub-skills similar to the ones in listening:
-reading for detail (intensive reading)
-reading for gist (skimming)
-reading for special information (scanning)
-predicting content
-inferring meaning from content and context
Some typical techniques are:
a table,
a chart or a picture.
2) Read and correct – The Ss correct mistakes in a text.
3) Read and draw – the Ss read a text and draw what is described.
4) Read and guess – the Ss read a text and guess what is described./Some riddles were read/
5) Read and match – The Ss match the information in a text with other reading texts or pictures.
6) Read and reorder – The Ss read a text in muddled order and number the sentences or paragraphs in the correct order. Or they physically reorder sentences on separate stripes of paper.
7) Read and sort –Two texts mixed together. The Ss have to sort them out.
The main stage of each activity has six basic steps:
-Put up the text.
-Set the skimming or scanning task.
-Set the read and respond task.
-Give the Ss time to read the text individually
-Let the Ss compare their answers in pairs.
-Go to the answers with the whole class and discuss them.
Many of the follow-up activities are aimed at extending the Ss’ vocabulary. Some ideas are:
-Wall poster- Ss own work displayed on the wall /projects/
-Reading cards – short texts+ activities –a kind of lending library