Teaching Reading Skills
About Course
This course covers Reading Skills comprehensively, presenting 10 separate skills with exercises and pointers on how to get students to improve their reading skills. The skills are demonstrated to be building upon one another hierarchically, across 3 levels. Skills in Level 1 are necessary to master Levels 2 and 3, and those in Level 2 are necessary to master Level 3. These 3 levels of skills are also how the course is presented, beginning with the ability to match sounds to symbols, and ending with how to read a text with biases of an author in mind. The course emphasises that the best way to get better and better at reading is to do it very often. This course could also be used when teaching students when English is not their first language. Exercises and texts are presented as potential resources the teacher can use when teaching.
Descriptive Points
What Will You Learn?
- Teach students the fundamental skill of matching sounds to symbols, facilitating early reading development.
- Explain the significance of sound-symbol mapping for initial reading comprehension, leading to improved reading fluency.
- Identify and introduce content words that aid in quick text comprehension, helping students become better readers.
- Equip students with strategies to recover the content of what they have read, promoting better retention, and understanding of texts.
- Instruct students in effective scanning and skimming techniques, particularly in exam conditions, enhancing their ability to quickly extract information from texts.
- Foster a habit of extensive reading among students, broadening their vocabulary and improving overall reading skills.
- Teach students to read analytically, enabling them to critically evaluate and interpret texts.
- Assist students in making informed decisions about what to read efficiently, saving time and improving the relevance of their reading material.
- Guide students in reading with the author's perspective and potential biases in mind, promoting critical thinking and a deeper understanding of texts.
Course Content
Teaching Reading Skills
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Introduction
07:00 -
Knowing what words mean
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Recovering the content of what you have read
00:00 -
Reading Analytically
00:00 -
Course Quiz