This document outlines eight principles for teaching reading: 1) exploit background knowledge, 2) build a strong vocabulary, 3) teach for comprehension, 4) work on increasing reading rate, 5) teach reading strategies, 6) encourage transforming strategies into skills, 7) build assessment into teaching, and 8) strive for continuous improvement. Key aspects include using prior knowledge to aid comprehension, focusing on terminology over general vocabulary, teaching authors' intent, focusing on fluency not speed, creative use of multiple strategies, automatic use of strategies as skills, both formal and informal assessment, and ongoing professional development.

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2. PRINCIPLE #1
EXPLOIT THE READER'S
BACKGROUND
KNOWLEDGE
“A readers background knowledge can
influence reading comprhension...”
-Carrell,1983 and Carrell and Connor
1991

3. PRINCIPLE #2
BUILD A STRONG
VOCABULARY BASE
“It is easier for the reader of academic
texts to cope with special terminology
than with general vocabulary...”
-Levine and Reves, 1990

4. PRINCIPLE #3
TEACH FOR
COMPREHENSION
“Teaching the author is an excellent
technique for meaningful cognitive
interaction with the text and for
assisting the students in the process
of constructing meaning from the
text...”
-Beck, McKeown, Hamilton and
Kucan,1997

5. PRINCIPLE #4
WORK ON INCREASING
READING RATE
Focuses on reader's independence on
dictionary.
Focuses on fluency, not speed.

6. PRINCIPLE #5
TEACH READING
STRATEGIES
“Strategies are not a single event, but
rather a creative sequence of events
that learners actively use..”
-Oxford, 1996

7. “To achieve the desired results,
students need to learn how to use a
range of reading strategies that match
their purpose for reading. Teaching
them how to do this should be a
prime consideration in the reading
classroom...”
-Anderson, 1991; Chamot and
O'Malley, 1994

8. PRINCIPLE #6
ENCOURAGE READERS TO
TRANSFORM STRATEGIES
INTO SKILLS
“An important distinction between
strategies and skills...”
-Kawai, Oxford and Iran-Nejad, 2000

9. STRATEGIES
-defined as conscious actions that
learners take to achieve the desired
goals or objectives
SKILL/S
-a strategy that becomes automatic
STRATEGIES VS SKILL

10. PRINCIPLE #7
BUILD ASSESSMENT AND
EVALUATION INTO YOUR
TEACHING
Assessing growth and development in
reading skills from both a formal and
an informal perspective requires time
and training.

11. QUALITATIVE VS QUANTITATIVE
QUANTITATIVE
-information from reading comprehension
tests as well as readung rate data
QUALITATIVE
-reading journal responses, reading interest
surveys and responses to reading strategy

12. PRINCIPLE #8
STRIVE FOR CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT AS A READING
TEACHER
“Just because you are a reader does
not mean that you are prepared to be
a teacher of reading...”
-Aebersold and Field, 1997

13. THAT WOULD BE
ALL..
THANK YOU!!