A short course in teaching reading : practical techniques for building reading power / Beatrice S. Mikulecky.

Includes bibliographical references.

PART I: READING AND LITERACY: SOME CONNECTIONS -- What is reading? -- What is literacy? -- How are language, culture, and literacy connected? -- What do educational researchers recommend? -- What do ESL/EFL students need? --

PART II: EXTENSIVE READING -- What is extensive reading? -- Why is extensive reading important? -- What should students read for extensive reading? -- When should students read extensively? -- How to implement an extensive reading component? -- Why is extensive reading so successful? --

PART III: TEACHING READING SKILLS -- Rationale and methodology -- What are reading skills? -- Focusing on specific skills -- Teaching interactive, skill-focused lessons -- Applying the skills in intensive reading lessons -- Notes about the sample exercises -- Scheduling activities in your reading class -- Activating background knowledge and conceptual frameworks -- Previewing -- Predicting -- Skimming -- Developing reading fluency: Learning not to read every word -- Cloze exercises -- Scanning -- Reading faster -- Improving bottom-up processing -- Perceptual skills: recognizing English letters and words -- AAutomaatic decoding -- Linguistic features and bottom-up processing -- Lexical items that signal textual cohesion -- Lexical items that signal textual organization -- Vocabulary building -- Sources of words for vocabulary teaching and learning -- Direct instruction of selected vocabulary -- Strategies for vocabulary building -- Text structure and comprehension: Topics and main ideas -- Understanding sentences -- Topics and main ideas -- Text structure and comprehension: Patterns of organization -- Frequently used patterns in English -- Four of the easiest patterns to learn -- Practice in identifying the four patterns -- Two more difficult patterns to learn -- Strategic reading and study skills -- Reading longer passages -- Summarizing -- Study reading -- Critical reading.

This revision of the classical practical handbook A Short Course in Teaching Reading Skillscombines reading theory with practical classroom application. An invaluable resource to the reading teacher, teacher-in-training, or administrator who wants to stress quality reading comprehension instruction, the principles apply to teenage through adult learners who already have basic decoding skills. AMAZON

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