Week 10: Reading

These four chapters mainly and commonly contain the information of the principles and the strategies for teaching reading. In the principles, giving enough time for intensive reading, choosing material relevant to student’s goals, balancing on choosing complex and simplified texts, encouraging using strategies to read, following the SQ3R sequence, and assessing students’ comprehension are more focused. With the reading strategies, students can work with texts on the process of pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading. At the beginning stage of pre-reading, previewing, skimming, and exploring key vocabulary are very important. Summarizing key ideas, looking for answers to questions posed during pre-reading, predicting what will come next are these strategies commonly used at the during-reading stage. At the last process, ensuring the understanding of the major ideas and supporting information and extending the ideas or information are weighty.