Reading Project.

READING PROJECT

Teachers: Alice Baratta, Ma Celia Da Rosa, Alejandra Da Cruz y Aldo Parodi

The main objectives in this Reading Project are based on the following goals.

1. Reading for meaning. The importance of acquiring reading comprehension techniques.
2. Reading for understanding
3. Reading for developing and reinforcing other skills (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing). In the same way that oral dialogues, short compositions, and listening activities do, reading can put into practice grammatical structures, new lexical items, and elements of pronunciation. Reading can also offer good writing models.

Teaching Objectives

1. To practice scanning, previewing, predicting, and skimming.

2. To extract main ideas from paragraphs, and paraphrase them in a short summary.

3. To express their personal reactions to the readings, and support their reactions with reasons.

4. To identify and learn new vocabulary words in each reading.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the project, students will be able to:

1. To use a XO Laptop to look for further information about the reading as well as informative articles within predetermined sites.

2. To demonstrate scanning, skimming, previewing, predicting, and skimming techniques.

3. To distinguish between main ideas and supporting details.

4. To use reflection as a means of evaluating the usefulness of sources.

Subsidiary Objective

1. To provide innovative pedagogical methods, best practise guidelines, and strategies towards systematic use of ICT for reading promotion

Reading Techniques to foster reading comprehension

• Skimming - reading rapidly for the main points
• Scanning - reading rapidly to find a specific piece of information
• Extensive Reading - reading a longer text, often for pleasure with emphasis on overall meaning
• Intensive reading - reading a short text for detailed information
• WH – Questions for reading comprehension activities
• Bottom – up  and Top – Down reading
• Cause and effect
• Draw conclusions
• Figurative Language. e.g. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse, I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!
• Main idea
• Inferring from context, titles, etc…
• Points of view,...etc