TEACHING READING TO YOUNG LEARNERS

1. TEACHING READING TO YOUNG
LEARNERS
Alejandra Quintero
luz Pinzon
Johan Triviño
Assly Bernal
Joel Torres

2. 1. Introductory activity
2. Why to teach the reading
3. What reading is
4. Factor to consider when
teaching reading
5. How to teach pronunciation
6. summary
7. closing activity
contents

3. Short conversations
This time give the students a sentence from the reading. The students
then have a conversation with a partner about the sentence.
Story telling
Prepare a short personalized narrative about something related to
the topic of the reading. Be creative with the story.
Videos
There is so much good free content available these days. First, find a
short video relating to the topic of the reading. I would suggest something
around three minutes long.
Introductory activity

4. In teaching a second language, you have the previous knowledge
that the young learners in reading possesses to relate them to
the language that is being learned, aspects such as vocabulary,
grammatical structures, context and meaning allow the approach
to a second language.
Reading is important because it develops the brain and our brain
is a muscle that needs exercise, therefore, learning the written
word, is one way to develop the reading ability. Teaching young
children to read helps them develop their language skills and
their critical mind.
why To teaching reading

5. Every language has a printed coding of its sounds and
concepts, in order to understand the grouping of these
codes, some previous concepts and skills are required to
give meaning to these characters.
Reading consists of two related processes: word
recognition and comprehension. Word recognition refers
to the process of perceiving how written symbols
correspond to one’s spoken language. Comprehension is the
process of making sense of words, sentences and
connected text.
What is teaching reading

6. ● Knowledge previous about reading in a native language.
● What is the purpose of reading, is for pleasure or for
information.
● Make reading exercise easier and dynamics for young,
because in this age they get bored faster.
● Vision problems.
● Don't use of the block letters because for the young
learners is more difficult reading.
what factors to consider when teaching reading

7. Phonics-based instruction is to
teach the young learners develop
literacy skills within the context
of literature with authentic
story-books for developing
intellectual and creative goals,
for theses reasons the stories
can be enjoyed by young learners
and develop cognitive and social
skills.
how to teach reading
Phonics-based instruction
is to teach the young
learners that printed
letters represent speech
sounds heard in words,
that help children see the
correspondence between
letters and sounds.

8. The language experience approach
Another method, the language experience method, uses learners’ own words to
help them read. Unlike other methods of teaching reading, this method is
grounded in personalized learning. In this method, every child learns different
words. Children often find this method very easy because they learn words they
are already familiar with.
This approach involves a shared experience such as common school experiences,
excursions and everyday happenings. In other words, first hand experiences are
reflected through the texts written through the language experience approach.
This approach is more effective when it is combined with other methods of
teaching reading.
what techniques to use to teach reading

9. ● Names
● Print-rich environment
● learning centers
● The phonetic method
● Choose interesting material for
the learn
● Work in groups
what techniques to use to teach reading
● Language experiences
● own words
● Questioning techniques
● Comprehension strategies
○ context clues and print
conventions
○ graphic organizers

10. summary
● Teaching young children to read helps them develop their language skills and
their critical mind.
● Comprehension is the process of making sense of words, sentences and
connected text, which is a background knowledge and the use of vocabulary;
that is why teaching to read is an important educational goal.
● The language experience approach helps to guide each student to increase
their personally reading skill, through our knowledge.
● It might take into account to Make reading exercise easier and dynamics for
young, because in this age they get bored faster

11. 1. Creative Writing
Ask students to choose 10-15 words from the text. You can provide
categories for the words e.g. the most interesting words / the most
important words. Students then write a text using the words. This
text could be a story, poem or news report.
2. Finding Related News
After students have finished reading, they can browse on the internet
for a new related to something they read, for example: if they read
something about moral and values, they can find examples of altruism
on the web and they can share that information with their classmates.
closing activity