The document discusses the top-down approach to teaching reading. It has 6 key features: 1) it allows readers to decode text without understanding each word, 2) it helps recognize unfamiliar words through meaning and grammar cues, 3) it emphasizes reading for meaning over individual words, 4) it engages readers in meaning activities rather than focusing on word skills, 5) it considers reading sentences, paragraphs and full texts as the core of instruction, and 6) it identifies how much and what type of information is derived from reading. The goal of reading is constructing meaning from the text rather than translating words.

1. Theories on
Teaching Reading
THE TOP-DOWN
APPROACH
Digna B.
Boquiren
Katherine E.
Bautista

2. Inside-Out
Model
Concept-
Driven Model
- uses the meaning
given by the reader to
the text.
Top-Down Approach

3. Features:
1. It allows readers to decode a
text even without
understanding the meaning of
each word.
2. It helps recognize
unfamiliar words through
the use of meaning and
grammatical cues.

4. 3. It emphasizes reading
for meaning instead of
giving attention to each
word, its letters and
sounds.
4. It engages the readers
in meaning activities
instead of concentrating
on the enhancement of
word-attack skills.
Features:

5. 5. It considers reading of
sentences, paragraphs, and
whole texts as the core of
instruction.
6. It identifies the amount
and kind of information
derived from reading as an
important element.
Features:

6. WELL-KNOWN VIEWS:
“Reading does not aim to
translate written language to
spoken language; it does not
aim to process each word or

7. The goal of reading is
“Constructing
meaning in response
to text”.
WELL-KNOWN VIEWS:

8. THE END.
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