3 Strategies for teaching reading: Reading for details – Read the complete text to find main idea and details Scanning: Find a specific point quickly Skimming: Find the general idea of the text

Why intensive Reading? 1. To read for main idea and details 2. Read to examine grammatical structures 3. Read to infer meaning of new vocabulary and words in context 4. Learn discourse markers (such as, most of all, especially…) Steps to intensive reading: 1. Create an interest in the context 2. Pre-teach new vocabulary and idioms 3. Give a reading task 4. Read 5. Follow-up activities

 Textbooks  Graded readers  Dialogues  Advertisements  Signs  Newspapers  Magazines  On-line reading  Greeting cards  Weather reports  Anything read daily by most adults

 Select reading material at the level of the student  Select short readings of high interest  Integrate reading and speaking  Integrate reading and writing  Use jigsaw reading  Read in pairs or groups  Use visuals, realia, gestures for understanding  Teach new vocabulary and ask students to find meaning in context  Teach strategies for speed reading  Make reading fun

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