READING STRATEGIES- LANGUAGE

Profesorado de Ingés: opción pedagógica a distancia

LANGUAGE I-UNIT 5

FORO 5.2.

Veron Elvia

Mañarey Rosana

Casellas Natalia

Tutor PIVA Ma. FERNANDA

August 2022

What is a Pre-reading activity?

it is a series of preliminary activities which prepare student for the reading.

Purposes

• Activate background knowledge
• Help students anticipate, be prepared for the topic of the reading
• Generate Interest in the reading and build confidence.
• Introduce the topic
• Enlarge vocabulary, naming things, exploring unfamiliar words before they read them in context.

The process of pre-reading develops four strategies known as the Four Ps of pre-reading: Preview, Predict,Prior knowledge and Purpose.

Predict

Once you’ve reviewed the text, you have an idea about what it contains. This comes from titles or headings so you know the broad categories in the text. Try to predict what each category will elaborate on and anticipate the thoughts and ideas. This will help save time as you begin to tackle the main bits.

Preview

We preview a text to get a sense of what it’s all about. Previewing can range from scanning a short article to exploring illustrations or chapter headings. This step requires you to be curious about what’s inside. The table of contents is a great place to start with your pre-reading.

PURPOSE

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Knowing the purpose for reading helps us take a stance as a reader. For example, we read in a different way if we know the text is supposed to make us laugh than if the text is full of challenging facts. Purpose is the intention and motivation of the writer.

It’s said that prior knowledge represents up to 60% of comprehension! Authors often assume the reader is coming to the reading with certain knowledge. Activating prior knowledge before reading opens up those schema in our brains into which new information can be added

Examples of Pre-reading activities

• Discussion about a topic,
• Guessing from words, pictures about the topic,
• Pictionary
• Miming the word, an action, a film, a song, etc
• Videos about the topic
• Brainstorming

Reading activity

Purposes

• Get information (facts, data.);
• Learn rich topic-related vocabulary (adjectives, nouns, verbs etc),
• Pick up new grammar structures,
• Improve comprehension and language acquisition skills.
• Understand ideas or theories;
• Understand the writer's point of view;
• Support your own views (using citations).

Reading is a receptive skill - through it we receive information. But if we read aloud to ourselves or to somebody else this process also requires the skill of speaking. In this sense, reading is also a productive skill in that we are both receiving information and transmitting it.

Strategies that are developed while reading

Processing strategies

are the “in-the-head” ways in which readers make use of the sources of information in the text to decode words.

Comprehension strategies

Enable readers not only to make sense of a text but also to think about what they are reading and enter into a mental dialogue with the author.

Reading between lines

Comprehension questions

Its purpose is to analyse deeply a text to scan some information.

The purpose is to test the candidates’ ability to understand what they are reading.

Strategies developed with:

Reading between lines

To scan information. Scanning is to look at the text or through it to find some particular information.

Comprehension questions

Integrating information, identifying main ideas, and summarizing information.

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