Category Archives: reading

Automaticity in reading

Following are a number of statements extracted from What Research Has To Say About Reading Instruction
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Reading sub skills

1. Basic reference and information-finding skills [e.g. title, using contents page, index. footnotes, bibliography, chapter headings and sub-headings, chapter summaries] 2. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues
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Reading – a list of text types

Reading narrative texts Reading factual texts [such as descriptions, announcements, memoranda, advertisements, notices, reports, menus, and agendas]
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The sequence game

This milling activity is very simple. Each student has a different sequential series written on a strip of paper. Their task is to find the participant wıith the exactly the same sequence as them self. For this to be a speaking and listening task, monitor the learners carefully to ensure they don’t show their [...]
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