1. Teaching Reading

2. What are some problems students have with reading?
How can we help them with these problems?
Break out groups then give handout

3. Good readers do the following:
Specify a purpose for reading
Preview the text
Predict the contents of the text or section of the text
Pose questions about the text
Connect text to background knowledge
Make inferences
Connect one part of the text to another
Pay attention to text structure
Deduce the meaning of a new word from context
Take steps to repair faulty comprehension
Reflect on what was learned from the text

4. Types of Reading Reading Subskills
Intensive Reading
Extensive reading
Reading Subskills
Skimming (reading quickly to get the “gist” of the text)
Scanning (looking for specific information in a text)

5. What are the steps to teaching reading?
Give handout

6. Before-reading activities
Why is it important to have pre-reading activities?

7. Before-reading activities
KWL chart
Give one get one
Mini-quiz
Discussion questions

8. Before-reading activities
Show a picture
Make predictions
Vocabulary: introduce new words
¨What does ________ mean¨
Mind map

9. While-reading activities
Why is it important to have while-reading activities?

10. While-reading activities
Read alouds: talk about what is happening in the book with the students
Ask students questions about what is happening in the book
Reader´s theater
Make predictions
Leave blanks while reading and have students say the missing word (for books with repetition)

11. While-reading activities Read-Rate-Reread
Understanding Rating (1-10)
Questions
Answers
1st reading
2nd reading
3rd reading

12. While-reading activities Reading comprehension cubes
Or with regular dice! 1 2 3 4 5 6

13. While-reading activities
Audio books see US State Department website
Use post-its to make comments
Venn Diagram (contrast 2 characters)

14. While-reading activities: Most important word or line
Choose the most important word/ line / image / event from the chapter and explain why you chose it.Be sure to support analysis with examples.

15. After-reading activities
Why is it important to have after-reading activities?

16. After-reading activities
Debates
Interview a character from the reading
Create a storyboard
Movies
Act out scenes from the reading

17. After-reading activities
Point of view: What if you changed the point of view of the narrator telling the story?
Poetry connection: bring in poems or songs related to the themes from the reading
Write me a song: write a song about the story, one of the characters, or an event in the book

18. After-reading activities
Author Interview: write an interview or letter in which the character in a story asks the author a series of questions and reflects on how they feel about the way they were made.
Dear Diary: keep a diary as if you were a character in the story.

19. Sources
Burke, Jim Things to do Before/During/After Reading.
103readingactivities.htm
During Reading Strategies. All America Reads.