Hi there, are you ok? I’m
Teaching Reading
teaching reading; and there
are many reasons why
wetting students to read
English texts is an important
part of the teacher’s job.
I’m OK, I agree, many
students want to be
able t o read text in
English for study
purposes or simply for
pleasure.

Reading is
useful for
language
acquisition, I
think so.
Reading also has a
positive effect on
students’ vocabulary
knowledge, on their
spelling and their
writing.

Good Reading texts can introduce
interesting topics, stimulate discussion,
excite imaginative responses and provide
fascinating lessons.
We can encourage
students to focus on
vocabulary, grammar or
punctuation.

We need to encourage students to
read as often and as much as possible;
it is a good idea to discuss this
principle whit students.
Our students need to be
engaged whit what they are
Reading; that is, we should
try to help them get as much
pleasure from it as possible.

My angle is: prediction is a major factor in
Reading such as: photographs and headlines hint
at what articles are about; we can identify reports
from their appearance before we read a single
word.
We need to integrate the Reading tex
tinto interesting lesson sequences, using
the topic for discussion and use a range
of activities to bring the text to life.

Reading suggestions
Jigsaw Reading Using
Reading puzzles newspapers
Students read We can give We can do all
a short text them texts kinds of
which sets up which have matching
a problem been chopped exercises, such
and then, in up so that as ones where
three groups, each students have
they read paragraph is to match
three on a different articles whit
different piece of paper. their headlines
texts, all of or whit
which are relevant
about the pictures.
same thing
such as:
different
aspects of
behavior,
different
reports on a
problem.