UNIT 5

READING

Reading is one of the most important skills that a learner should develop in an effective way but it becomes really hard to do it since we do not have the custom or habit to read something.However, in the study of this unit we checked some relevant aspects that this skill involves and which can help us to improve it.

First, when we read we need to take into account some reading skills like; reading for specific information (scanning), reading for gist (skimming) it refers to the global understanding of the reading, reading for detail and finally, deducing meaning from context  I think that those skills are really helpful in order to become a better reader.

Second, I as future teacher I need to know that there are two types of reading which can help my students to improve or encourage them to read. For instance, intensive reading according to Brown he explains that it "calls attention to grammatical forms, discourse markers, and other surface structure details for the purpose of understanding literal meaning, implications, rhetorical relationships, and the like. While, extensive reading involves reading for pleasure long pieces of text such as; a story or article this type of reading can help to encourge our students to read somtehing that they are interested on.

As a conclusion, if I want to help students with this skill I should follow some tips that this book mentions like: check which reading subskills their learners are good at, then practicing the subskills they are not using well or help them by pre-teaching vocabulary(teaching vocabulary from the text before the learners  read the text).

References:

I Can Teach My Child!,. (2012). 10 Steps to Teaching Your Child to Read - I Can Teach My Child!. Retrieved 30 April 2015, from http://www.icanteachmychild.com/10-steps-to-teaching-your-child-to-read/

Teflbootcamp.com,. (2015). Teaching Reading in EFL | Reading Skills in EFL | How to Teach Reading | 

TEFL Educator | TEFL Boot Camp. Retrieved 30 April 2015, from http://teflbootcamp.com/teaching-skills/teaching-efl-reading/

Video:

YouTube,. (2015). Powerful Method for Teaching Reading to Classroom of Students. Retrieved 30 April 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPsAuf1ihMk