NONPROSE READINGMilagro Azofeifa

• Building Background• Introducing new vocabulary• Preexisting background knowledge• Both bottom-up and top-down processing

Activating Schemata / Reading Interactively

Making text meaningful

• According to level and age• Songs• Pictures• Activities• Brainstorming

• Making clear the topic of the storyQuiltingHelen KellerPow-wow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9z3IOpH1gBaseball and Team Spirit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LazuRx6Eo

• Reflective Teaching (adults ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEoxGJ79PMs

• We are all different (teenagers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVjbo8dW9c8

For all ages and levels

Reading Nonprose Texts for General Understanding• Skimming: to obtain a general

sense of the text• Note-taking• Scanning: reading quickly to

locate specific information.

Reading Nonprose Texts for Thorough Comprehension

• Assure detail comprehension• Understand relationships among ideas• Listening and reading activities can be

combined

• Drawing inferences

• Evaluating a text

Critical Reading of Nonprose Texts

Teachers are facilitators that help students of all levels and ages undertand the topics and meanings of what they read and talk about in the classroom.

• All what is done in the classroom has to be meaningful and has to pursue reading comprehension.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WckCw_-7e3M

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