A Short Course in Teaching Reading

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