Teaching Reading

Question 1

Principles of Reading (Process of Reading)

Answer 1

Bottom-up 
-graded reader approach
-phonics approach : letter / sound relationship
Top-down
-literature-based approach
-whole language approach
-meaning-based approach
Schema Theory : the reader brings schemata to printed word
-formal schema : lgg, discourse featues
-content chema : content, world, culture

Question 2

Types of Reading

Answer 2

Intensive reading : accuracy, linguistic components
Extensive reading : fluency, incidental learning
Repeated reading :automaticity, sight words, word recognition
Critical reading : language awareness, active, skeptical
Strategic reading : brainstorming, predicting, skimming, scaning, etc

Question 3

Reading activities (1) : Reconstruction

Answer 3

-the original text is given Ss either in segments or as blocks of text with gaps
Prediction
Sequencing
Table completion
Cloze

Question 4

Reading activities (2) : Analysis

Answer 4

-Ss read the whole text and then select specific information from it and then represent it in a different from
Diagrammatic representation
Summary
Segmenting
Labelling
Underlining

Question 5

Reading Strategies

Answer 5

Scanning
Skimming
Metagocnitive awareness (metacognition) : verbal reports, think-aloud protocol
Inferencing : use the clues in the text to discover what is not directly stated
Guessing
Word parts

Question 6

Criteria of Choosig Text

Answer 6

Readability : appropriate level of difficulty (consider Ss’ proficiency)
Suitability : interesting, motivating
Exploitability : adaptable for teaching purpose

Question 7

Comprehensiong level

Answer 7

Literal level
Reorganizatin level
Inferential level
Evaluative level : Ss engage in meaning and develop ideas rather than retrieve information passively from the text
Creative level

Question 8

Other issues related to RD

Answer 8

1) New Literacy : ability to find, identify, evaluate various resources and communicate with others using them; beyond the ability to read and write; multiliteracies, new literacies
2) miscue analysis : analyze error or mistakes which readers make in RD
Graphophonic, semantic, syntactic miscue
3) SPQ (signpost question) : direct Ss attetion to the important points in the text and give specific reason for RD