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Teaching Reading: From Scratch - To Kids

This document provides guidance on teaching reading to different age groups. For young learners, it recommends an interactive phonics approach using images and sounds rather than letters alone. It also stresses listening, repetition and matching sounds to words and pictures. For teenagers, it suggests preparing vocabulary before reading, discussing texts to broaden understanding, and using authentic online materials. Homework options include tasks teaching letter sounds or preparing pre-reading exercises for an article on healthy eating.

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Teaching Reading: From Scratch - To Kids

This document provides guidance on teaching reading to different age groups. For young learners, it recommends an interactive phonics approach using images and sounds rather than letters alone. It also stresses listening, repetition and matching sounds to words and pictures. For teenagers, it suggests preparing vocabulary before reading, discussing texts to broaden understanding, and using authentic online materials. Homework options include tasks teaching letter sounds or preparing pre-reading exercises for an article on healthy eating.

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Teaching reading

 From scratch – to kids:

 Phonixes – interactivity – collocations “image-letter”


(“Image-word”)

 Listening to all sounds, words and texts

 Absence of translation

 IPA is not needed (do not transcribe the sounds)


Interactivity
 Provide videos before reading (Family and Friends,
Incredible English), flash stories, interactive books
(web-site starfall), interactive alphabet

 Work with words more (web-site wordwall) – word


spelling, rewrite words, match pictures and words
Phonixes
 Letter collocations which are mostly used in words (teach
not by a single sound system but by sounds combinations)

 A – sound Э, А, А:, ЭЙ – show the combinations:

 Cat, fat, sat, hat (change one letter in the beginning –


study combination “at”

 Sad, bad, mad – combination “ad”


Image - letter \ Image - word
 When you learn alphabet pay attention to sounds
rather than letters. If you practice letter “O” – a
good image is not “OWL” (O is pronounced A) but
“OVAL” – the clear “EU”

 Add new sounds gradually (stick to pacing)


Listening
 Listen and repeat the same sounds and words
several times in different contexts:

 Use puppets to help you repeating when introducing


sounds and words

 A sound (phonix) should then be matched to the


word and picture:
 A – hat – the picture of a hat
Translation and IPA
 We do not have to translate when we know all the
words and have the images (a comix) as a
background

 IPA is not used when the system of phonixes is


applied. They’ll mix sounds and letters and IPA
letters a lot.
Reading with teenagers
 What is efficient:

 Pre-reading tasks:
 Introducing the text vocabulary
 Prepare for the topic of the text (discussion)
 Include grammar constructions being learnt in the text

 Teach them to understand a general thought and find details


(reading for gist \ detail)

 Practice reading aloud isn’t always needed


After reading
 Discuss the author’s view \ agree \ disagree \ express
their opinion \ practice linking ideas and sentences

 Broaden their horizon, give projects to prepare. (If


they’ve read an article on a new historic research,
motivate them to find out about any more interesting
ones on the net and prepare a report)

 Make sure they not just read but understand why they
are reading that (motivating relevant texts)
Use authentic materials
 You may:

 Find articles (and adapt them if necessary) on the net

 Use the transcripts of the video (TED talks) as


reading tasks, then watch them

 Give them home reading in order to retell it orally


then and learn many new words
Home work
 Choose 1 from the 2 options:

 1) prepare the tasks for younger learners using some


phonixes to teach letter “O”, include the weblinks on
interactive sources

 2) prepare the tasks for teenagers (pre-intermediate) for


reading a text on the topic: “Healthy eating”: find a text
(attach it to your task), prepare pre\post reading tasks.

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