Techniques in

Teaching
Reading
Jump to first page

Theory and Teaching Practice in

Reading to Young Learners
1.1. What do people read?
1.2. Why do people read?
1.3. How do they read?
2. Practice.
2.1. Useful techniques in teaching reading.
2.2. Activities
2.3. The analysis of the textbooks:
Magic English 4,
3. Conclusion
Jump to first page

1. Theory. The students success depends on

learning to read with a purpose, predict, skim, scan,
extract detailed information, read and recognize
functions, deduce meaning from context.
But reading in a foreign language creates barriers
for the learner in using reading skills.
It is the teachers job to re-activate these skills by
making students less anxious or frustrated and thus
removing some of the barriers.
Jump to first page

A reading lesson might reflect this

process in a variety of ways. There are a lot
of classroom procedures that activate and
encourage pupils to realize that reading can
be fun.
Mostly this happens while integrating
reading with writing, listening and speaking.

Jump to first page

1. Theory and Practice in Teaching Reading

1.1. What do people read?

Activity 1. Web Map. Put everything you can
remember reading the previous day( all types
even reading labels, shopping list, address book,
road signs, posters, articles, books, etc., .

What I read?

Jump to first page

1.2. Why do people read ? There are some main

reasons for reading
Reading for survival - a matter of life or death:
immediate needs or wishes, signs instructions,etc.,
Activity 3. Write and read as many signs and
instructions you meet on your way to work.

Example: No smoking! Push!

Jump to first page

Reading for information - goal oriented

Reading to extend the general knowledge

of the world
Reading for information
Reading to remind ourselves about halfknown
Jump to first page

 Reading for information - goal oriented

Reading to extend the general knowledge of

the world
Reading for information
Reading to remind ourselves about halfknown

Jump to first page

 Reading for specific purposes - for a very

particular purpose
To give instructions

To describe situations
To report events
To generalize
Jump to first page

 Reading for pleasure - for its own

sake.
Thrillers
Romantic fiction
The classics
Contemporary fiction.
Activity 1. Classify your reading
under the four types of reading.
Jump to first page

1.3. How do people read? The main types of

reading are as follows:
Skimming: quickly running ones eyes over a text
to get the gist of it.
Scanning: quickly going through a text to find a
particular information.
Extensive reading: reading longer texts
Intensive reading: reading shorter texts to extract
information.

Jump to first page

2. Practice. Useful reading techniques

A reading lesson might reflect this process
in a variety of ways. There are a lot of
classroom procedures that activate and
encourage pupils to realize that reading can
be fun.

Jump to first page

All reading techniques are classified

according to three main types of
classroom procedures:
pre-reading
while-reading
post-reading

Jump to first page

2.2. Pre-reading- activities that precede the

reading of the text:

web maps, brainstorming, warming -ups,

describing pictures, puzzles, questions,
questionnaires, making lists, memory games,
anticipation, predicting, etc.,
Activity 1. Read the puzzle. Can you spell
these words?

Jump to first page

Activity 1. Read the puzzle. Can you spell

these words?
ACTIVITY 2. Anticipation.

What do you know about robots? Read and

complete the chart.

Jump to first page

2.2. While-reading activities are designed

to:
scan, skim, reassemble jumbled sentences
and texts,think of a suitable title, jig-saw
reading, locate a key sentence/paragraph,
complete a chart, examine punctuation and
grammar, etc.,

Jump to first page

Activity1. Unjumble Sues letter to Paula

Activity 2. Linking words. Choose the best

word.
Activity 3 Read the texts and match the
headings to the appropriate paragraph.
Activity 4. Put the following bits together to
make the end of Jills story.
Jump to first page

2.3. Post-reading that traditionally consisted of

questions now:
answer the questions, multiple-choice questions, put
the instructions in order, deducing information, read
and write a report/ a letter / a project, etc.,

Jump to first page

Activity 1. Read the letters and answer the

questions. Write an excuse.
Activity 2. Read the two texts and complete
the family trees.
Activity 3. Read the text and write about the
typical food of your country or region

Jump to first page

2.4. Reading for pleasure:

romantic fiction, thrillers, quizzes, jokes,

mysteries, matching, etc.,
Activity 1.Strange messages.
Activity 2. Reading jokes.
Activity 3. Sleeping cartoons.
Jump to first page

4. Conclusion.
These techniques remind readers of what
they do in fact know and think, encourage
them to be active and reflective, realize that
reading can be enjoyable and fun.

Jump to first page