A Short Course in Teaching Reading: Practical Techniques for Building Reading Power
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Introduction and Background PART I: Reading and Literacy: Some Connections What Is Reading? What Is Literacy? How Are Language, Culture, and Literacy Connected? What Do Educational Researchers Recommend? What Do ESL/EFL Students Need? PART II: Extensive Reading What Is Extensive Reading? Why Is Extensive Reading Important? What Should Students Read for Extensive Reading? When Should Students Read Extensively? How Can a Teacher Implement an Extensive Reading Component? Why Is Extensive Reading So Successful? PART III: Teaching Reading Skills A. Rationale and Methodology 1. What Are Reading Skills? 2. Focusing on Specific Skills 3. Teaching Interactive, Skill-Focused Lessons 4. Applying the Skills in Intensive Reading Lessons 5. Notes About the Sample Exercises 6. Scheduling Activities in Your Reading Class B: Activating Background Knowledge and Conceptual Frameworks 1. Previewing 2. Predicting 3. Skimming C. Developing Reading Fluency: Learning Not to Read Every Word 1. Cloze Exercises 2. Scanning 3. Reading Faster D. Improving Bottom-up Processing 1. Perceptual Skills: Recognizing English Letters and Words 2. Automatic Decoding 3. Linguistic Features and Bottom-up Processing 4. Lexical Items That Signal Textual Cohesion 5. Lexical Items That Signal Textual Organization E. Vocabulary Building 1. Sources of Words for Vocabulary Teaching and Learning 2. Direct Instruction of Selected Vocabulary 3. Strategies for Vocabulary Building F. Text Structure and Comprehension: Topics and Main Ideas 1. Understanding Sentences 2. Topics and Main Ideas G. Text Structure and Comprehension: Patterns of Organization 1. Frequently Used Patterns in English 2. Four of the Easiest Patterns to Learn 3. Practice in Identifying the Four Patterns 4. Two More Difficult Patterns to Learn H. Strategic Reading and Study Skills 1. Reading Longer Passages 2. Summarizing 3. Study Reading 4. Critical Reading Appendix I - Further discussion of selected topics mentioned in the book Appendix II - Phonemes and their spelling Appendix III - High frequency word lists Appendix IV: Table of common collocations in academic texts Appendix V - Answer key for selected skills exercises Bibliography
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