How to teach reading (lớp 12)

FACILITATING
READING TASKS
Nguoi huong dan :Nguyen Thi Lien
BEFORE-YOU-READ
Activate students’ previous knowledge
Unit 1 – Home Life: Talk about students’ own home life
Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity: Wedding Puzzle
Unit 13 – Seagames: Seagames Fact Quiz
Build students’ knowledge of the topic
Unit 2 - Cultural Diversity: What is cultural diversity?
Unit 3 – Ways of Socializing: What is socializing? What is verbal communication? What is non-verbal behavior?
Unit 14 – International Organizations: What are these organizations?
BEFORE-YOU-READ
Get students familiar with some key vocabulary
Unit 3 – Ways of socializing: Act out the verbs
Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary) before reading
Motivate students to read
Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate the words (key vocab.)
Make them curious by asking questions  they can find the answers in the reading.

BEFORE-YOU-READ
Help students understand the tasks
Get students read the questions first
Help students with difficult expressions in the questions
Check to make sure students understand the questions
WHILE-YOU-READ
Reduce the load
Break the passage into smaller parts
Unit 7 - Economic Reforms: Before Doi Moi – Government’s actions – After Doi Moi
Vocabulary-in-context tasks: help students locate the words; provide examples; provide other contexts;etc.
Change the task: Unit 2 – Task 1  Matching; MCQ…

WHILE-YOU-READ
Help students to understand the text before get them to answer the questions
Timeline
Table/Chart
Map
Visuals
WHILE-YOU-READ
Check students’ understanding
Ask for evidence
Check on understanding of contents: Elaborate on the answers
Check on understanding of language contents
WHILE-YOU-READ
Develop skills
Skimming: Which sentence = most important
Vocab-in-context: How you arrive at the meaning is more important than the meaning itself
Scanning: Find the information  read around
Etc.
AFTER-YOU-READ
Adapt tasks
Life in the future: robots  travel/ work
Higher education: Talking about subjects  Summarize the reading contents
FINAL NOTES
Careful pre-teaching  better understanding
Understand the text first, answer questions later
Being able to relate to the reading contents  students more interested
Answering the questions correctly # comprehending