Teaching Reading
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Reading is something too often not “worked out” within our teaching minds. It’s a skill that deserves our attention as language teachers and is a powerful, evidence-based way for students to acquire language. Beginners too, need direct instruction focused on reading and providing reading practice. Here are a few resources and suggestions.
Review these fully described core reading activities. Download this handy summary infographic.
Teachers also employ many specific “strategies” to teach reading. Skimming, scanning, prediction, summarising, making connections. Review these here.
Remember to think of reading not just as “a story” but as reading any kind of text, including subtitles on videos, and even text messages. Leveled readers also work wonders for either shared or independent reading and we have many in our lesson library. Year subscribers get 1,000s of readers in pptx and video.
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. Katherine Paterson