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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: White Plains, New York : Pearson Longman, (c)2011.Edition: second editionDescription: iv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780131363854
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1128 .S567 2011
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Contents:
What is reading? -- What is literacy? -- How are language, culture, and literacy connected? -- What do educational researchers recommend? -- What do ESL/EFL students need? --
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? --
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.
Subject: 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 https://www.amazon.com/Short-Course-Teaching-Reading-Techniques/dp/0131363859/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T9B6BZO88EN1&keywords=9780131363854&qid=1681413923&sprefix=9%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1
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needs to be change to circulating book G. Allen Fleece Library needs to be changed to circulating collection PE1128.M636.S567 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available
Reference (Library Use ONLY) G. Allen Fleece Library REFERENCE Non-fiction PE1128.A2.M558.S567 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923002108112

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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