teachingreading-primary.ppt.ppt

Teaching Reading to Primary School Pupils 北京教育学院 袁昌寰 yuanchanghuan@126.com I. Warm-up Among the four language skills , reading might be the most familiar to our Chinese learners of English. 1. What is reading? Read the following statements and decide whether you agree with them or not. 1)Reading is recognizing the written words in a text. 2) Reading is the ability to articulate the words and pronounce them correctly. 3) Reading is an active process. It constantly involves guessing, predicting, checking and asking oneself questions. 4) Reading is the ability to understand the written words and respond to them in proper ways. 5) Reading means getting meaning out of the given text. 2. Why do we read? You may have various purposes for reading different types of texts. In general three main reasons why people read. 1) Reading for survival. This kind of reading serves your immediate needs or wishes. 2) Reading for learning and information. It means that reading can help extend your general knowledge of the world. 3) Reading for entertainment or pleasure. Reading for entertainment is done for its own sake. The readers don’t have to do it. 3. Why teach reading in EYL classes? 1) Many children show both interest and enthusiasm in doing reading when they start English. 2) Reading can help to reinforce what they are learning orally. 3) Being able to read something meaningful in English, such as a party invitation, an email, short message, or shopping list, can give children a real sense of achievement. 4) Exposure to the written record of what is being learnt can be important for those whose learning is more visual and who like to see the words and phrases written down. 4.How do we read? The traditional ways to teach reading in a Chinese school. 1.The “new words” from the text are learnt in lists with their Chinese translations. 2.The teacher asks the students to read the text aloud sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, i