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READING PRINCIPLES Teaching reading
READING PRINCIPLES
Teaching reading
Encourage and engage your students
• Everything we do should
encourage them to
read.• Ex.: Health
interesting facts text.
• Make the students feel involved.
• Make them get joyful Reading.
• Ex. Global warming text.
Encourage students to respond to the
content
What did it mean?
How did it make you feel?
Show feelings about the Reading.
Prediction, a major factor in reading
Teachers can give hints.Students get clues like:
Book cover,Headlines
Web-page banners
Match the task to the topic
• Consider levels of challenge
• Assign reading tasks.• Useful study
exploitation of every reading activity.
Fully exploit reading texts
It does not make sense students to read a good piece of information and suddenly drop it.
Use the topic for discussion and other tasks.
ResourceHarmer, J. (2007). How to teach English.
England: Pearson Education Limited
