Reading principles to improve students' reading skills UTPL

1. READING
PRINCIPLES
Teaching reading

2. Encourage and engage your students
• Everything
we do
should
encourage
them to
read.
• Ex.: Health
interesting
facts text.
• Make the students feel involved.
• Make them get joyful Reading.
• Ex. Global warming text.

3. Encourage students to
respond to the content
What did it mean?
How did it make you
feel?
Show feelings about
the Reading.

4. Prediction, a major factor in reading
Teachers can give hints.
Students get clues like:
Book cover,
Headlines
Web-page banners

5. Match the task to the topic
• Consider levels of
challenge
• Assign reading tasks.
• Useful study exploitation
of every reading activity.

6. Fully exploit
reading texts
 It does not make sense
students to read a good
piece of information
and suddenly drop it.
 Use the topic for
discussion and other
tasks.

7. Resource
Harmer, J. (2007). How to teach English. England: Pearson
Education Limited