TEACHING READING

1. Scanning
Reading to get specific information or details
2. Skimming
Reading to get general information or main ideas
3. Reading for fun
Reading activities which are not serious
4. Reading for detailed comprehension
Reading to understand the text in detail
5. Reference
A thing you say or write that mentions something / somebody else
6. Inference
Something that you can find out indirectly from what you already know.
7. Communicative activities
Language games, exchanging information, describing pictures, discussion, role-play and problem-solving tasks.
8. Personalization
Referring to personal experience when learning language
9. Zigsaw reading
A reading text picture printed on cardboard or wood, that has been cut up into a lot of small pieces of different
shapes that you have to fit together again
10. Reading puzzle
A reading game that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it
11. Predicting from words and pictures
Using a series of words and pictures to help students guess the content of the text
12. Poetry
A reading game asking student to guess the missing words that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm
or pattern of rhyme.
13. Comprehensive language
The language of the text which is not too difficult to reader
14. Accessible content
The content of the text is within readers' scope of knowledge so that they can make use of they can make use of
their background knowledge or experience to decode the text.
15. Fast reading (speed)
Reading through the text quickly without wasting time struggling with difficult words or structures
16. Reading strategies
The process of putting a plan into reading activity to do the task
17. Word-attack
To tackle unfamiliar lexical items by using morphological information (word formation, word class, synonyms,
antonyms, hyponyms,...)
18. Text-attack
To interpret the text by using all the clues available: cohesion, coherence, structures, etc.
19. Questions of literal comprehension
Questions whose answers are directly and explicitly available in the text.
20. Questions involving reorganization or reinterpretation
Questions require the student to obtain literal information from various parts of the text and put it together or to
reinterpret information.
21. Questions of inference
Questions oblige the student to 'read between the lines' to consider what is implied but not explicitly stated.
22. Questions of evaluation
Questions involve the reader in making a considered judgment about the text in term of what the writer is trying
to do, and how far he has achieved it.
23. Questions of personal response
The answer to this type of question depends most on the reader and least on the writer.
24. Questions concerned with how the writer says what he means
Questions intended specifically to give students strategies for handling texts and aimed at making students
aware of the word-attack and text-attack skills.