Approaches to Teaching Reading

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Approaches to Teaching Reading

• Kathy Varone

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NTID Reading Levels

• Nonfiction Reading III
• Roughly 8th grade
• Nonfiction Reading IV
• Roughly 9th grade

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General Goals

• Academic success
• Career success
• Personal enjoyment and development

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Course Focus

• Reading Strategies
• Pre-reading, during reading, post-reading
• English Language
• Syntax and vocabulary
• Specific reading skills
• Finding main ideas, paragraph organization, etc
• Writing as a thinking tool

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Materials Used

• Reading skills texts
• Level III 6th to 9th grade texts
• Level IV 7th to 10th grade texts
• Features
• Various high interest topics
• Theme based chapters
• Reading skills addressed
• Degree of repetition
• Activities for skill practice
• Approach to vocabulary
• Reading strategies addressed

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Materials Used

• Newspaper and magazine articles
• Biographies, memoirs
• Opposing Viewpoints
• Articles chosen by the students

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Reading Strategies

• Emphasis on process
• Pre-reading
• Previewing for information
• Activating schema
• Predicting
• Organization of text
• Content related vocabulary
• Purpose for reading develop questions

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Reading Strategies

• During reading
• Marginal notes
• Underline key ideas
• Circle unfamiliar vocabulary
• Internal summary
• Make predications
• Relate old and new information
• Form mental images

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Reading Strategies

• After reading
• Review
• Outline
• Mind Map (Webs)
• Summarize
• Discussion groups
• React
• Answer questions from pre-reading
• Answer post-reading questions
• Follow-up?
• Level IV SQ3R

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Reading Skills

• Level III
• Topics
• Main ideas stated and implied
• Supporting details major and minor
• Inferences
• Text organization

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Reading Skills

• Level IV
• Continue skills from Level III
• More emphasis on implied main ideas
• Fact vs. opinion
• Purpose and tone

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Vocabulary

• Unfamiliar words from readings
• Student generated lists
• Cards or lists for practice
• Word
• Part of speech (as used in text)
• Clear dictionary definition
• Students own definition
• Synonym or antonym
• Sentence using the word, diagram, picture, etc.
• Individual or small group practice with tutor or
  teacher
• Practice sentences for homework (fill in the
  blanks)
• Goal- ownership, not memorization

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Vocabulary

• Vocabulary in context
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Examples and definitions
• General sense of the passage

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Language

• Relationship words sentence, paragraph, and
  full text
• Addition
• Time
• Comparison and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Definition and example
• Structures practiced as they appear in texts