Reading: Methodology

Reading lessons: Pre-text, text and post-text

Scrivener, J. (2011: 267): Reading lessons often follow a top-down structure: from overview to details.

Skimming (read over a text quickly to get the gist of it, e.g. discover key topics, themes...) and scanning (moving eyes quickly over the text to locate specific pieces of info) are both top-down skills (ibid.: 265), and are used to increase reading speeds in foreign languages.

Ideas for reading activities: Novels, short stories and plays

Leonard Schafer: English Didactics 2018-2019, Literature in the Classroom.

Ideas for reading activities: Poetry

Leonard Schafer, English Didactics 2018-2019, Poetry in the Classroom.

Ideas for reading activities: Newspaper articles

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Leonard Schafer: English Didactics 2018-2019, How to teach reading.

Read and write for meaning. Remove the headlines from a number of news stories. Display the headline-less stories on a classroom bulletin board. Provide students with the headlines, and ask them to match each to one of the stories. As students replace the missing headlines, ask them to point out the words in the headlines that helped them find the correct story. Then distribute headlines from less prominent stories and ask students to choose one and write a news story to go with it. When the stories have been completed, provide each student with the story that originally accompanied the headline. Ask: How close was your story to the original? How effectively did the headline convey the meaning of the story? You might follow up this activity by asking students to write a headline for their favorite fairy tale. (EducationWorld 2019)

References

EducationWorld (2019). Ten Great Activities: Teaching With the Newspaper. https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/Ten-Great-Activities-Teaching-With-the-Newspaper.shtml.
Scrivener, J. (2011). (3rd ed.) Learning Teaching. London: MacMillan Education.

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