Teaching Reading

Macquarie University, 2003 - 62 pages. ISBN: 1 86408 851 6. The focus of this book is on leaching reading in the classroom and it can be used by teachers at various points within the teaching and learning cycle. It aims to incorporate recent research on reading strategies, vocabulary development, reading fluency and extensive reading into a text-based approach to language teaching. Some of the issues covered include incorporating reading into a language program, selecting texts, teaching reading skills and strategies, and developing reading fluency. The main body of the book summarises, in point form, the principal findings on teaching reading and then offers practical suggestions for activities that will help teachers examine the issues for themselves in their own classroom. The findings and suggestions are supported, and in some cases expanded upon, by quotations from the papers themselves. Where appropriate, examples are also provided. For ease of reading, the supporting quotations appear on the left-hand pages, opposite the findings or suggestions to which they are addressed. However, both pages are equally important in the discussion and contribute to a fuller understanding of teaching reading. This book provides the ESL teacher with a range of ideas that can be used at various points of the teaching and learning cycle. It aims to incorporate recent research on teaching strategies, vocabulary development, reading fluency and extensive reading into a text-based approach to language teaching. Issues covered include incorporating reading into a language program, selecting reading texts, teaching reading skills and strategies, reading for meaning, and developing vocabulary through reading. [Back cover, ed] Provides the teacher with a range of ideas for teaching reading that can be used at various points in the teaching and learning cycle. Incorporated recent research on reading strategies, vocavulary development, reading fluency and extensive reading into a text-based approach to language learning