THE FOUR SKILLS

Benefits from reading?

Vocabulary
Imagination
Culture
Language
Information
Writing skills
Entertainment
Spelling
Awareness
The FOUR-SKILL Clover
WHY IS READING SO HARD?
I read just
because I
have to
I need to use
the dictionary
a lot
It doesnt matter how much I
liked the story; what really
matters is how much I
understood!
The stories
arent
interesting
at all!
REASONS FOR READING
Why do we read?
Because we have to
Because we need to
Because we want to
How often do YOU read?
WHAT have you been reading lately?
IN THEORY
What is READING?
Reading is an active, even
interactive process:
The reader has to make meaning from:
a) The visual (text, pictures) and
b) The non-visual (background knowledge)
information to interpret the text.
IN PRACTICE
Open your book to page 54
IN PRACTICE
and the cherry at the top of the pie is
IN THEORY
What is READING?
Reading is an active, even
interactive process:
The reader has to make meaning from:
a) The visual (text, pictures) and
b) The non-visual (background knowledge)
information to interpret the text.
In order to do so, the reader and the writer share
the same code; the writer codifies the message
and the reader decodifies it.
PRINT AWARENESS
The main purpose of any text is to convey
a message.

The meaning is central, and any new
language item learnt on the way is an
incidental benefit.
WHY TO TEACH READING
SKILL or INSTINCT?
Look at the next slides
What do you look at
first?...then?...finally?

KEY SOURCES
Titles or headings
Text
Text
Text
(Previous knowledge)
Its our knowledge of the world;
its a key tool to convey meaning,
to make sense of the text.
SCHEMATA
SCHEMATA
STAGES FOR READING
.
What do you
already know?
What do want
to know?
What did you
just learn?
______________________
TITLE
Titanic
It was a big boat.
It crashed with an
iceberg.
It sank and many
people died.
How many passangers
died?
Where was it coming
from?
How much was a
ticket?
It was its first trip.
There were different
sections.
Musicians continued
playing for a while!
STAGES FOR READING
Before reading
While reading
After reading
THE KING SKILL
THE QUEEN SKILL
WHAT DO WE LISTEN TO?
Songs
Stories
Conversations
Jokes
Movies
Gossips
WHO COMES FIRST?
OPTIMIZING LISTENING
ONE STEP AT A TIME
1. Low down expectations (You can get it!!)
2. Just listen (books closed)???...listen again
3. Listen and read (Comprehension Vocabulary)
CONVEYING MEANING
Chuchito: Teacher, what does _____________ mean?
Body language (miming, using gestures, etc.),
Visual aids (drawing, picture, flashcards, etc.),
Audio aids (intonation, sounds, noises, etc.)
The word used in a sentence (context or situation),
Description of the word (improvised),
Related words (synonym, anthonym,
cognates),
REALIA!


CONVEYING MEANING
Teacher: Chuchito, what does _____________ mean?
Body language (miming, using gestures, etc.),
Visual aids (drawing, picture, flashcards, etc.),
Audio aids (intonation, sounds, noises, etc.)
The word used in a sentence (context or situation),
Description of the word (improvised),
Related words (synonym, anthonym,
cognates),
REALIA!


WORKING VOCABULARY OUT
Drawing Sentence Meaning S or A SPANISH
Titanic
ONE STEP AT A TIME
1. Low down expectations (You can get it!!)
2. Just listen (books closed)???...listen again
3. Listen and read (Comprehension Vocabulary)
4. Listen and repeat (Pronunciation & Intonation)
5. Read along (Fluency)
6. Extensive or Intensive Reading
7. Lets have fun!!!


Scanning.
Reading for gist or Skimming.
Reading for detail.
Extensive Reading
Intensive Reading.
READING SUBSKILLS
Scanning:
Reading for
specific
information.
READING SUBSKILLS
Reading for gist or skimming
Reading
quickly
through a text
to get a
general idea
of what it is
about.
READING SUBSKILLS
SKIMMING or READING FOR GIST
SKIMMING or READING FOR GIST
SKIMMING or READING FOR GIST
_________________________
Title
Reading for detail
Getting the
meaning
out of every
word.
READING SUBSKILLS
Reading for detail
My parents
daughter.
(Noun) A place where
we go to study.
(Noun) A piece of
furniture used for
sleeping.
READING LEVELS
How deep?
Reading the lines
Reading between the lines
Reading beyond the lines
KINDS OF READING
KINDS OF READING
KINDS OF READING
KINDS OF READING
WHO PROMOTES READING?
WHO PROMOTES READING?
WHO PROMOTES READING?
WHO PROMOTES READING?

The English Teacher reads at recess time
The P.E. Teacher.
The Computer Class Teacher
The Spanish Teacher
The Principal
The bulletin board
MY CLASSMATES!!!


FUN WITH READING
Memory Game
Tic-Tac-Toe
Charades
Whats the
question?
Car Rally
Changing the ending
Unscrambling
Role playing
Change the lyrics
FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Any srmat poelpe can raed tihs:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod calelry uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of
the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, syas taht it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny
iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
hvae to be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt!
I am not a speed reader.
I am a speed understander.
~ Isaac Asimov ~
FAMOUS QUOTES
I have always imagined
that Paradise will be
a kind of library.
~ Jorge Luis Borges ~
Books are not made for furniture,
but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes a house.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison ~
You don't have to burn books
to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading
them.
~ Ray Bradbury ~
Reading without reflecting is
like eating without digesting.
~ Edmund Burke ~
A room without books is
like a body without
a soul.
~ Marcus T. Cicero ~
Children are made
readers on the laps of
their parents.
~ Emilie Buchwald ~