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1.1. What do people read?1.2. Why do people read?

1.3. How do they read?2. Practice.2.1. Useful techniques in teaching reading.2.2. Activities

2.3. The analysis of the textbooks:Magic English 4,

3. Conclusion

Theory and Teaching Practice inReading to Young Learners

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1. Theory. The students success depends onlearning to read with a purpose, predict, skim, scan,extract detailed information, read and recognizefunctions, deduce meaning from context.

But reading in a foreign language creates barriersfor the learner in using reading skills.

It is the teachers job to re -activate these skills bymaking students less anxious or frustrated and thusremoving some of the barriers.

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A reading lesson might reflect this process in a variety of ways. There are a lotof classroom procedures that activate and

encourage pupils to realize that reading can be fun.

Mostly this happens while integratingreading with writing, listening and speaking.

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1. Theory and Practice in Teaching Reading

1.1. What do people read? Activity 1. Web Map. Put everything you canremember reading the previous day( all typeseven reading labels, shopping list, address book,

road signs, posters, articles, books, etc., .

What I read?

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1.2. Why do people read ? There are some mainreasons for reading

Reading for survival - a matter of life or death:

immediate needs or wishes, signs instructions,etc.,

Activity 3 . Write and read as many signs andinstructions you meet on your way to work.

Example : No smoking! Push!

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Reading for information - goal oriented

Reading to extend the general knowledgeof the world

Reading for information

Reading to remind ourselves about half-known

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Reading for information - goal oriented

Reading to extend the general knowledge ofthe world

Reading for information

Reading to remind ourselves about half-known

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Reading for specific purposes - for a very particular purpose

To give instructions

To describe situations

To report events

To generalize

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Reading for pleasure - for its ownsake.

Thrillers

Romantic fiction

The classics

Contemporary fiction.

Activity 1. Classify your readingunder the four types of reading.

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1.3. How do people read? The main types of

reading are as follows:Skimming : quickly running ones eyes over a textto get the gist of it.

Scanning : quickly going through a text to find a particular information.

Extensive reading : reading longer texts

Intensive reading : reading shorter texts to extractinformation.

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2. Practice. Useful reading techniques

A reading lesson might reflect this processin a variety of ways. There are a lot ofclassroom procedures that activate andencourage pupils to realize that reading can

be fun.

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All reading techniques are classifiedaccording to three main types ofclassroom procedures:

pre-reading

while-reading

post-reading

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2.2. Pre-reading- activities that precede the

reading of the text:web maps, brainstorming, warming -ups,describing pictures, puzzles, questions,questionnaires, making lists, memory games,anticipation, predicting, etc .,

Activity 1 . Read the puzzle. Can you spellthese words?

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2.2. While-reading activities are designedto :

scan, skim, reassemble jumbled sentencesand texts,think of a suitable title, jig-sawreading, locate a key sentence/paragraph,complete a chart, examine punctuation and

grammar, etc.,

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Activity1. Unjumble Sues letter to Paula

Activity 2. Linking words. Choose the bestword.

Activity 3 Read the texts and match theheadings to the appropriate paragraph.

Activity 4 . Put the following bits together tomake the end of Jills story.

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2.3. Post-reading that traditionally consisted ofquestions now:

answer the questions, multiple-choice questions, put

the instructions in order, deducing information, readand write a report/ a letter / a project, etc.,

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Activity 1 . Read the letters and answer thequestions. Write an excuse.

Activity 2. Read the two texts and completethe family trees.

Activity 3. Read the text and write about thetypical food of your country or region

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