1. Gideon Mugabe Catchup School, Muhumurize Association of Teachers of English in Rwanda

2. Overview The purpose of this presentation is to help teachers improve the way they teach reading. The presenter will focus on learning performance and how the learner should perform by reading and understanding to know vocabulary, spelling, and grammar from reading texts. The presenter will talk about the reading process from pre- reading to post-reading and how this process can help students improve their reading.

3. Discussion Questions With a partner, discuss these questions: Why is reading important? Do your students like to read out loud?

4. Approach L. Listen S. Say U. Use

5. Pre-Reading A teacher should read first a word or a story in order to make a learner listen how a word is Is pronounced. A learner should be taught to spell a word. A learner should know how to read the whole word. A learner should be taught how to read a sentence.

6. Poem with Vocabulary Hurt no living thing. Ladybird, nor butterfly’ Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor cricket chirping cheerily, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, nor battle fat

7. Poem with Vocabulary Hurt: injure moth: small flying bug, like a butterfly dusty: fine dirt chirping: making a happy sound cheerily: happily battle: a small war

8. H________ no living thing. Ladybird, nor butterfly’ Nor __________ with _________ wing, Nor cricket ___________ _______________, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, nor ____________ fat

9. A learner will be able to… A learner will be able to pronounce a word clearly. A learner will be able to write a correct spelling. A learner will be able to make short stories or poems. A learner will be able to speak English well. I will be easy to know vocabulary in a story, poem etc A learner will be interested in reading charts, stories, notes hence better performance. He/she will have self confidence in reading A learner will be able to know how a word is used.