How to teach reading?

Reading is a receptive skill or a productive skill?

• receptive skill

• productive skill

• both; receptive and productive.

• None of the above is correct

When your reading skills improve, these skills improve too...

• writing

• listening

• speaking

Select the correct statement.

• You need to learn to write before you can read.

• You need to learn to read before you can speak.

• You need to learn to read before you can write.

The aim of this approach is not to look up every single unfamiliar word but to simply immerse yourself in your target language. You can use context to figure out most of the words you don’t know in a text.

• Intensive

• Extensive

• Gist

• Top-down

Intensive reading, focuses on....

• Shorter texts

• Reading for joy

• Grammar

• Wide range of vocabulary

• Doing exercises while reading

Refers to the process of reading only main ideas within a passage to get an overall impression of the content of a reading selection.

• Scanning

• Gist

• Skimming

• Extensive

To scan a text you need to...

• Read the first sentence of every other paragraph.

• Notice any pictures, charts, or graphs.

• Selectively read and skip through sections of the passage.

• have a question in mind and ignore unrelated information.

During this stage activities help students to understand texts further, through critically analyzing what they have read.

• Pre-reading

• While-reading

• While-listening

• Post-reading

• Post-listening

Graded readers are books that have been written for...

• Learning English as a first language.

• English learners at a specific level.

• Learning English as a second language.

• English learners at any level.

It was not clear enough. I need help with....

• Reading techniques (skimming/scanning)

• Principles.

• Top-down or bottom-up?

• Extensive or Intensive?

• None of the above.