How to teach reading

1. Teaching reading
Prepare by ;
Arazoo Mawlood
Supervisor ;
Mr. Ijad
Soran University
Faculty of Education
English Department

2. What is teaching reading?
Teaching reading is a complex process. The
best teachers develop an extensive knowledge
base and draw on a repertoire of strategies for
working with struggling students.

3. Why do we tech reading ?
We teach students reading to help them;
A) Learn the language
B) Read for information
C) Read for cultural knowledge and awareness

4. What are the reading strategies that the teacher can
use while teaching reading?
1- previewing
2- predicting
3- skimming and scanning
4- guessing from context
5- paraphrasing

5. Previewing
Previewing titles, section headings, and
photo captions to get a sense of the
structure and content of a reading
selection
predicting
Using knowledge of the subject matter
To make predictions about content and
vocabulary and check comprehension

6. Skimming and scanning
Using a quick survey of the text
to get the main idea,
Identify text structure and
confirm or question predictions.
Guessing from context
Using prior knowledge of the
subject and the ideas in the text
as clues to the meanings of
unknown words, instead of
stopping to look them up

7. Paraphrasing
Stopping at the end of a section
to check comprehension by
restating the information and
ideas in the text

8. teaching reading problems
 Students don’t like reading
 The teacher does not have the necessary methodological knowledge about
how to teach reading
 It’s a national problem. Reading has title value in the culture,
 Students don’t know useful reading strategies.
 Students read “word by word”.
 Texts (topics of the texts) don’t fit student needs, interests and wants.
 The language level of the texts are too much higher or lower than the students
language level

9. Thank you