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The Reading Skiils

Purpose of teaching reading skills:

Importance to realize the difference between teaching reading skills and teacliing "texts" Teaching reading skills - aims at preparing students to be able to read other texts Teaching texts - aims at understanding only the text being read in class, memorizing the content, students are to understand the text and structures presented in it.

Effidency - balancing the effort exercised with the results achieved:

Transfcr of skills;

Global approach

-    to get the gist of a text, the overall meaning of the text (they should use what they know o understand unknown elements)

Text selection 2 kinds of texts:

a)    presentation text - non-authentic text, short, simple to present structures, allow 100 % comprehension without too much difficulty

b)    skills-practice text - to practice reading skills, usually authentic but if not, teacher should use simplified authentic texts; most skills are practiced on real authentic texts

Reading technigues:

1.    skimming - to get the gist of

2.    scanning - quickly going through the text to find specific information

3.    contextual guessing - guessing the meaning of unknown word from the surroundings context

4.    dozę exercise - blank filling

5.    outlłning - notę taking

6.    paraphrasing

7.    jigsaw reading/scrambled stories - reordering

8.    information transfer - e.g. drawing a route map

9.    making inferences - reading between lines

10.    extensive reading - for pleasure, long texts, individual global understanding

11.    intensive reading - short texts to extract specific information

12.    passage competition - finishing a reading passage

Different types of reading tasks:

-    re-reading - focusing on meaning, developing expectations about text, proving reason for reading text

-    while-reading - getting meaning of text by using appropriate strategies and skills

-    post-reading - feedback on reading, integrating with other skills

VftripH» typts of

-    specially written

-    simplified authentic texts

-    authentic texts