READING SKILLSREADING SKILLSREADING SKILLSREADING SKILLS 道外区教师进修学校 姜棘轩道外区教师进修学校 姜棘轩

What is a Reading SkillAny aspect of the process

of reading that learners need to master in order to become effective and efficient readers

Why Teach Reading as a Collection of Skills?

“Reading in a foreign language:

a reading problem or a language problem?”

Reading skills may not be the same in all languages

Learners might not have developed/be aware of good reading skills in their own language

Learners need practice in transferring reading skills to another language

Achievable goals --takes away the fear/mystery

How Should we Promote Reading Skills

Focus on teaching not testing Explain the purpose of the skill Choose texts that interest the students Match text to students’ level and the task s

et Build up text/task differently slowly

Different types of reading skills

Skimming Scanning

A List of Reading Skill Skimming Scanning Predicting Interpreting Evaluating Identifying main ideas Perceiving cohesion and syntactic structure Careful reading (for detail) Strategies for tackling unfamiliar words

Skimming and Scanning Moves focus away from careful reading Helps learners feel less threatened by unkn

own vocabulary Helps learners feel less threatened by longe

r texts Most learners are probably familiar with ski

mming and scanning in their own language Increases the range of texts that learners ca

n be exposed to

SKIMMING

A quick look through a text in order to get a general idea of what it is about

Teaching Skimming Begin at paragraph level1) Underline the main idea2) Choose from a selection of headings

(main ideas)3) Write your own heading for a paragra

ph

Move on to text level1) Guess the content of a text from the fi

rst and last paragraphs2) Skeleton texts

Everyday skimming For example: --newspapers --magazines --emails --the internet --choosing books

SCANNING

A quick look through a text in order to find specific information.

‘Real life’ ScanningTelephone directoryNewspapersCateloguesScanning races

TV Guide You can’t get Channel 4 He refuses to watch ITV You’re recording somehti

ng yourself between 1pm and 3pm

Scanning and Skimming( 查读与略读 ) Can scan titles or diagrams for specific informati

on 能通过查读标题或图表获取信息 Can scan particular signs (such as $, %, ) for spe

cific information 能通过查读特殊符号获取具体信息。 Can skim the text to know what it is about 能通

过略读文章了解主要内容。 Can skim the topic sentence to have a general u

nderstanding of the paragraph. 能通过略读主题句了解大意。

Can skim the text for key words 　　能通过略读文章抓住关键词

Predicting 预测 Can use titles or subtitles to predict the con

tent 能利用标题或副标题预测语篇内容 Can make a judgment by prediction 能通过

预测做出判断 Can predict by signals of the language 能利

用提示词做出预测 Can predict by common knowledge 能运用

常识做出预测 Can predict the outcome of an article 能预

测文章结局

Guessing the Meanings of Unfamiliar Words 猜测生词 Can use information after in other words 能利用 in

other words 之后的信息 Can use information after for example and such as

能利用 for example 或 such as 之后的信息 Can use information after other or before and othe

r 能利用 other 之后或 and other 之前的信息 Can use information after or before the colon 能利

用 or 之后或 before 之前的信息 Can use information in parentheses 能利用括号内

的信息。

Identifying the Main Idea 识别篇章的中心意思 Can identify the topic of paragraph 能识别

段落主题 Can identify the main idea of a paragraph

能识别段落大意 Can identify the main idea of the entire text

能识别文章主旨 Can draw a conclusion 能做出结论 Can make sound judgments 能做出有理有据

的判断

Identifying Facts 辨认事实 Can Identify plain facts 能辨别简单事实 Can identify supporting details 能辨别事实

的细节 Can identify facts versus opinions 能识别事

实与观点 Can make inference by all related facts 能根

据相关事实做出推断 Can identify implied facts 能识别隐含事实

Recognizing the Cohesion and Coherence of an Article Can recognize indicators in discourse 能识

别语篇中的指代关系 Can identify cause and effect 能分辨因果关

系 Can understand comparison and contrast

能理解比较于对比的语句 Can understand context clues 能理解语境线

索 Can identify words with multiple meanings

能分辨多义词的特定含义

Identifying Facts 辨认事实 Can identify plain facts 能识别简单事实 Can identify supporting details 能识别事实

的细节 Can identify fact versus opinion 能识别事实

与观点 Can make inference by all related facts 能根

据相关事实做出推断 Can identify implied facts 能识别隐含事实

Guessing the Meanings of Unfamiliar Words 猜测生词 Can understand pictures or diagrams 能理

解图片或图表 Can use information after a dash 能利用破

折号之后的信息 Can use information after a comma 能力用

逗号之后的信息 Can use information after or 能利用 or 之后

的信息 Can use information after i.e, that is, and na

mely 能利用 i.e.,that is, namely 之后的信息

Finding the Sequence 寻找顺序线索 Can find the sequence according to the logical orde

r 能识别逻辑顺序 Can recognize the ordinal markers when identifyin

g the writing sequence 能识别有关先后顺序的提示词

Can find the sequence according to the spatial order 能识别空间顺序

Can find the sequence according to the time order 能识别时间顺序

Can find the sequence of how to make things 能识别事物的制作程

Finding the main idea 识别篇章的中心意思 Can identify the topic of a paragraph 能识别

段落主题 Can identify the main idea of a paragraph

能识别段落大意 Can identify the main idea of the entire text

能识别文章的旨 Can draw a conclusion 能做出结论 Can make sound judgments 能做出有理有据

的判断