PRINCIPLES PRINCIPLES FOR FOR

TEACHING TEACHING READINGREADING

PRINCIPLE #1

EXPLOIT THE READER'S BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

“A readers background knowledge can influence reading comprhension...”-Carrell,1983 and Carrell and Connor 1991

PRINCIPLE #2

BUILD A STRONG VOCABULARY BASE

“It is easier for the reader of academic texts to cope with special terminology than with general vocabulary...”-Levine and Reves, 1990

PRINCIPLE #3

TEACH FOR COMPREHENSION

“Teaching the author is an excellent technique for meaningful cognitive interaction with the text and for assisting the students in the process of constructing meaning from the text...”-Beck, McKeown, Hamilton and Kucan,1997

PRINCIPLE #4

WORK ON INCREASING READING RATE

Focuses on reader's independence on dictionary.

Focuses on fluency, not speed.

PRINCIPLE #5

TEACH READING STRATEGIES

“Strategies are not a single event, but rather a creative sequence of events that learners actively use..” -Oxford, 1996

“To achieve the desired results, students need to learn how to use a range of reading strategies that match their purpose for reading. Teaching them how to do this should be a prime consideration in the reading classroom...”-Anderson, 1991; Chamot and O'Malley, 1994

PRINCIPLE #6

ENCOURAGE READERS TO TRANSFORM STRATEGIES INTO

SKILLS

“An important distinction between strategies and skills...”-Kawai, Oxford and Iran-Nejad, 2000

STRATEGIES-defined as conscious actions that learners take to achieve the desired goals or objectives

SKILL/S-a strategy that becomes automatic

STRATEGIES VS SKILL

PRINCIPLE #7

BUILD ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION INTO YOUR

TEACHING

Assessing growth and development in reading skills from both a formal and an informal perspective requires time and training.

QUALITATIVE VS QUANTITATIVE

QUANTITATIVE-information from reading comprehension tests as well as readung rate data

QUALITATIVE-reading journal responses, reading interest surveys and responses to reading strategy

PRINCIPLE #8

STRIVE FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AS A READING

TEACHER

“Just because you are a reader does not mean that you are prepared to be a teacher of reading...”-Aebersold and Field, 1997

THAT WOULD BE ALL..

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