THE TEACHING & ASSESSING OF READING SKILLS

Prepared by: Nur Syakirah Mohd Nafis Nursyazwani Adang Nur Syazwani Khamis

INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES

The most common practice in the teaching of reading is to devise comprehension questions and to obtain verbal responses to these. Responses can be obtained in two forms: verbal and non-verbal.

Form of response
Verbal Ask/answer questions (spoken or written) Read aloud Discuss Rearrange sentences Fill gaps Note-taking

Non-verbal Channel conversion: draw, label, use pictures, graphs, pie-charts, etc. to express understanding Read and do: act, mime, follow instruction , laugh; look sad, etc.

Verbal responses

Reading aloud Silent reading

READING ALOUD

Reading-while-listening For diagnostic purpose Play-reading Choral reading Individual reading to teacher Audience reading Reading aloud as feedback

SILENT READING

Open-minded questions Multiple-choice questions (MCQ) True-false questions

NON-VERBAL RESPONSES (CHANNEL CONVERSION)

Information can be communicated in a number of ways: in words, through graphic materials, and through action. When information expressed in one medium is converted into another medium, channel conversion or information transfer is said to have taken place. Example:

ASSESSING READING

HOW TO ASSESS?

1.

Perceptive reading (recognition of symbols, letters and words)

Reading aloud Copying (reproduce in writing) Multiple-choice recognition (including true-false and fill-in-the-blank) Picture-cued identification

HOW TO ASSESS?

2.

Selective reading (focus on morphology, grammar, lexicon) Multiple choice grammar/vocabulary tasks Contextualized multiple choice (within a short paragraph) Sentence-level cloze tasks Matching tasks Grammar/vocabulary editing tasks (multiple choice) Picture-cued tasks (Ss choose among graphic representations Gap-filling tasks (e.g., sentence completion)

HOW TO ASSESS?

3.

Interactive reading Discourse-level cloze tasks (requiring knowledge or discourse) Reading + comprehension questions Short-answer responses to reading Discourse editing tasks (multiple choice) Scanning Re-ordering sequences or sentences Responding to charts, maps, graphs and diagrams

HOW TO ASSESS?

4.

Extensive reading Skimming Summarizing Respinding to reading through short essays Note taking, marginal notes, highlighting Outlining