CATESOL, Santa Clara April 24, 2010
Principles to Practice in Teaching Reading
Jennifer Bixby Joe McVeigh
Schema building
Principles in teaching reading
1. Develop ______skills
2. Move from ______-level to ______-level processing
3. Develop lessons structured around ______-, ______- and ______-reading activities
4. Use both ______and ______reading
5. Increase reading ______
6. Focus attention on ______skills
7. Explicitly teach ______
8. Develop and maintain ______to persist in reading
9. Move towards learner ______
How readers construct meaning
Principles and practice
Engage learners in pre-, during-, and post-reading activities
Focus attention on vocabulary development skills
Explicitly teach strategies
Interactive processing
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