The document discusses promoting reading among students and provides principles and strategies for teaching reading. It recommends encouraging students to read often and extensively for pleasure and language improvement. Some suggested activities include establishing a classroom library, book clubs, scanning exercises, and having students respond to content rather than just focusing on construction. The document also analyzes the sequence of a sample reading lesson.

1. Teaching reading December 2010

3. Intensive reading Itisoftenteacher-chosen and directed. Itisdesignedtoenablestudentsspecificskills.

4. Extensivereading Usingthistheteacherencouragesthestudentstochooseforthemselveswhattheyread and to do so forpleasure and general languageimprovement.

5. Whatkind of reading are youpromotingamongyourstudents?

6. Reading activities Structureidentification Set up a roomlibrary Book clubs Scanningexercises Jigsawreading Vocabularyfinding Skimmingexercises Use simplifiedreaders Reader corners Articlereviewwriting

8. Principle 1 Encouragestudentstoread as often and as much as possible.

9. Principle 2 Studentsneedtobeengagedwithwhatthey are reading.

10. Principle 3 Encouragestudentstorespondtothecontent of a text, notjusttoconcentrateonitsconstruction

11. Principle 4 Predictionis a major factor in reading

12. Principle 5 Exploitreadingtextstothe full.

13. Analyzing a reading sequence 8 a. Thestudentsreadthetextagain in pairs. 5 b. Thestudentsreadthetexttofindoutwhatthetitle of thetextmeans. c. Theteacherasksthestudentstopredictwhatthetitle of thetext means. 4 d. Theteachercheckstheanswertothefirstcomprehensiontask. 6 e. Theteacher shows students a picture of JK Rowling. 1 f. Theteachertellsthestudentstoreadthetextagain in more detail. 7 g. Theteacherasksstudentstosaywhattheyknowabout JK Rowling. 2 h. Theteacherholds up a photocopy of thetextthestudents are going toread. 3 i. Theteachergoesthroughtheanswerswithstudents. 9

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