Reading skills

Transcript

• 1. Improving reading skills
  (Three stages using during teaching reading text)
• 2. Introduction:
  Reading is the most important skill in English language from other language skills in acquiring language. if students are good in reading, they will be good in other language skills (writing, speaking, and listening).For this reason teachers of English language should focus on this skill.
• 3. Some teachers complain that most students are not able to understand what they read
  Reasons why students don`t understand text reading:-
  - Students hate to read, they only read the required textbook in order to be able to set for the achievement routine exams. 
  - students lacked motivation to read, even if they read, they show negative attitudes.
  - For most of the learners, reading is an extremely difficult task that requires integrated body of skills, which also does not get easier with the passage of time and the accumulation of experience.
• 4. Reading strategies 
  * Teachers have very important role to improve reading skills to their students to improve other language skills . They can follow some stages and strategies when teaching reading text.
  * Reading strategies are defined as the mental operations involved when readers approach a text effectively and make sense of what they read.
• 5. The stages and strategies of reading that teachers should promote for their students are :-
  - pre-reading
  - while reading 
  - post-reading stages 
  They are very important when teaching any reading text. Each of these stages has its own characteristics, although they are related to one another. That is, the pre-reading stage leads to the while-reading stage and finally to the post-reading one. These stages make the student understand and comprehend text reading.
• 6. pre-reading strategies:-
  
  • Teachers in order to enable their students to understand a reading text, without their looking up every single word, teachers, should employ the pre-reading stage, as it is important in building confidence and creating security within the learners before they approach a reading text.
  * The pre-reading stage also helps to make the next stages of reading more easily adaptable for the reader
• 7. This stage includes some activities for example:-
• 8. 2- during- reading stages:-
  The reading activities of while-reading stage help to encourage critical thinking of students and increase comprehension and easy retention. 
  This stage includes some activities for example:-
  
  • Read silently
  • 9. Re-read
  • 10. Read aloud
  • 11. Check predictions
  • 12. Clarify/verify comprehension
  • 13. Monitor/Adjust comprehension
  • 14. Analyze
  • 15. Guess
  • 16. Find answers
  • 17. Word associations and grouping
  • 18. Use context clues: semantic, syntactic, picture
  • 19. Use phonetic cues: sound patterns, affixes, word roots, word chunk, word division
  • 20. Dictionary use
• 3- Post reading strategies:-
  To check the students’ comprehension and retention of the information of a text that they have already tackled, teachers should employ the last stage-the post-reading stage.
• 21. This stage includes some activities for example:-
  *Summarize/ paraphrase
  
  • Reflect on what has been learned
  • 22. Find relationships/mapping
  • 23. Associate new information with old
  • 24. Seek feedback
  • 25. Interpret text
  • 26. Make connections
  • 27. Confirm predictions
  • 28. Journals
  • 29. Reading logs
  • 30. Note-taking
• Reading stages and strategies promoted by English teachers
• 31. Recommendations
  My advice for all teachers to: 
  
  • read more and take courses about how to teach reading in a best way.
  • 32. They should know the three main stages of reading and the strategies of each stage. Then try to apply what they know about them.
  MyadviceforallStudentsto :
  
  • take care of reading and try to improve their skills in reading.
  • 33. They should not depend on their teachers all time but they should try to read and read to become good readers.
• Conclusion
  When teachers apply these stages carefully, students learn how to use them in different texts they read without teacher. Also, encourage student to read different kind of material