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Teaching Reading steps

The document outlines the active cognitive process of reading, emphasizing that the method of reading varies based on purpose, such as scanning for quick information or intensive reading for detailed understanding. It details a structured approach to teaching reading comprehension, including pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading phases, with specific activities for each phase. Additionally, it discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech, highlighting its historical significance and the activities designed to enhance comprehension of the passage.

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Teaching Reading steps

The document outlines the active cognitive process of reading, emphasizing that the method of reading varies based on purpose, such as scanning for quick information or intensive reading for detailed understanding. It details a structured approach to teaching reading comprehension, including pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading phases, with specific activities for each phase. Additionally, it discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech, highlighting its historical significance and the activities designed to enhance comprehension of the passage.

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Teaching Reading

1. What is reading? It is active cognitive process of receiving or decoding information from print
materials. The material we read is decided by the purpose or reason why we read. And the way how
we rad also decided by the purpose of reading.
2. How we read magazine is not one and the same with how we read text book.
3. The way we read for understanding is not the same with the way we read for pleasure.
4. When we need quick information we scan and the process is called scanning.
5. Sometimes we read for general information or gist and we call it skimming.
6. For detailed understanding we read through intensive reading.
Steps of teaching reading for comprehension
Pre-reading phase: here the teacher is supposed to introduce the objective and the title of the reading
passage.
 the teacher also pre-teaches some selected words from the reading passage
 Ask some questions to find out the prior knowledge of the learners on the topic of reading. The
questions can be true or false or open ended questions.

While- reading phase: now the students or the learners should be provided the text to read silently.

 In the course of the reading process the teacher may help them find the contextual meaning of the
vocabulary used in the passage
 Provide them with questions: reference, inference, or general idea or theme of a certain paragraph, etc.

Post-reading phase: the teacher asks comprehension questions.

Ask them to tell what they have understood from the passage

s/he can integrate reading with other skills: speaking, writing or listening
Reading Passage:

I have a Dream

Pre- reading actives:

Before you read the passage below, try to answer the following questions.

1. Do you know Martin Luther King Jr? 2. What dream did he have? 3. Was he a politician?

Guess the meanings of the following words:

A. Dream B. racism C. delivered D. proclamation E. freedom F. equality

"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during

the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism

in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters

from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil

rights movement. Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed millions of

slaves in 1863, King observes that: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free". Toward the end of the

speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme "I have a

dream", prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" In this part of the speech,

which most excited the listeners and has now become its most famous, King described his dreams of freedom

and equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred. Jon Meacham writes that, "With a single phrase,

Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America".

The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century in a 1999 poll of scholars of public

address.

While reading activities:

I. Write true for the correct statements and false for the incorrect ones from the passage above.
1. Martin Luther King was a politician.
2. He was among the negros considered unequal by the whites.
3. The speech of Martin Luther king was graded top American scholars in 1999.
4. Martin Luther’s dream was aspiration for inequality.
II. What do the words in italics refer to in the paragraph?
1. he in the second line refers to_______________________
2. his in line 7 refers to ________________________________

Post Reading Phase: this is reflection phase

 give home work to write about someone they know to be civil right watch.
 Ask them to tell you about the passage

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