A Practical Guide to Teaching Reading Skills at All Levels Teacher's Book

Gives MFL teachers practical guidance on how to develop a range of effective reading strategies in their language learning students.

Jenny Ollerenshaw (Author), Sue Ollerenshaw (Illustrated by)

9780953244065, Advance Materials

Paperback / softback, published 20 January 2003

36 pages
29.8 x 21 x 0.2 cm, 0.14 kg

Reading is a vital language skill at all levels, and a key component in all examinations. Successful and effective readers are independent readers who have many different reading strategies at their disposal, and are aware of the type of reading that a particular text or situation demands. A Practical Guide to Teaching Reading Skills at All Levels provides MFL teachers with: practical guidance on how to develop a range of effective reading strategies; example reading activities in French, German and Spanish; advice on how to raise reading awareness and confidence in students; tips on how to support students' reading in the classroom; and lists of useful morphological trends in French, German and Spanish.

1. Why this book?
2. Why is reading important for language learning?
3. Students as independent readers
What characterises the independent reader?
Confidence
What latent abilities do students already possess that can help them?
4. Types of reading
Pre-reading tasks
Skimming
Scanning
5. Detailed Reading
Words which are not key to the understanding of the text as a whole
Key words whose meaning can be guessed at or worked out
Key words which have to be looked up in the dictionary
6. Supporting your students' reading
7. Post-reading activities
8. A final word Appendix: Useful morphological trends.

Subject Areas: Educational: Languages other than English [YQF], Educational material [YQ], Teaching skills & techniques [JNT]