PRACTICAL LESSON # 11 Reading as a skill. Teaching scanning, skimming and skipping reading
Questions for discussion:
1. Texts for Reading
One can name more than 50 texts types people read in real life. They are:
Novels, short stories, tales: other literary texts and passages(e.g. essays, diaries, anecdotes, biographies)
Plays
Poems, limericks, nursery rhymes
Letters, postcards, telegrammes, notes
Newspaper and magazines (headlines, articles, editorials, letters to the editor, stop press, classified ads., weather forecast, radio/TV/theatre programmes)
Specialized articles, reports, review, essays, business letters, summaries, precis, accounts, pamphlets (political and other)
Handbooks, textbooks, guidebooks
Recipes
Advertisements, travel brochures, catalogues
Puzzles, problems, rules for games
Instructions (e.g. warnings), directions (e.g. How to use...), notices, rules and regulations, posters, signs (e.g. road signs), forms (e.g. application forms, landing cards) graffiti menus, price lists, tickets
Comic strips, cartoons and caricatures, legends (of maps, pictures)
Statistics, diagrams, flow/pie charts, time-tables, maps
Telephone directories, dictionaries, phrasebooks
Activity 1
Please, read the list and pick the text types that pupils read at school.
Teacher’s question: How many items have you got? What are these text types? Is there any great difference between these two lists? Can you see here any problems? Should we give our students the texts of all types?
Purpose for Reading
Here we come to the questions:
What do we read for in real life? and
What is the aim of learning reading and teaching reading at school?
Activity 2. Working in groups of four define the purposes of reading in real life.
In real life people read for:
pleasure
information
surviving
In general we read because we want to get the message from the writing: it might be facts, ideas, enjoyment, feelings, etc.
So, reading is communication or interaction through conveying a message.
Different people understand the meaning of one and the same message differently. Understanding depends on attitudes, values shared by people brought up in the same society. Understanding also depends on what we have experienced and how our minds have organized the knowledge we have got from our experiences.
We all get something different from a text. Whose understanding is better, closer to the writer’s message?
Understanding a written text means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible.
Activity 3. Working in the groups of four state the aims of teaching reading at school.
The aim of teaching reading at school is: to enable students to read without help unfamiliar texts at appropriate speed silently with adequate understanding.
Activity 4. Working in a group of four compare the aims and explain the difference. Share your ideas with the whole group. If our students reach that aim they become competent readers.
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