the teaching and accessing in reading

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Prepared by:

Nur Syakirah Mohd Nafis

Nursyazwani Adang

Nur Syazwani Khamis

THE TEACHING &

ASSESSING OF READING

SKILLS


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The most common practice in the teaching of reading is to devise

comprehension questions and to obtain verbal responses to these.

Responses can be obtained in two forms: verbal and non-verbal.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES


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Form of response

Verbal

Ask/answer questions (spoken orwritten)

Read aloud

Discuss

Rearrange sentences

Fill gaps

Note-taking

Non-verbal

Channel conversion: draw, label,use pictures, graphs, pie-charts,etc. to express understanding

Read and do: act, mime, followinstruction , laugh; look sad,

etc.


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Verbal

responses

Readingaloud

Silentreading


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Reading-while-listening

For diagnostic purpose

Play-reading

Choral reading

Individual reading to teacher

Audience reading

Reading aloud as feedback

READING ALOUD


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Open-minded questions

Multiple-choice questions (MCQ)

True-false questions

SILENT READING


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Information can be communicated in a number of ways: in words, through

graphic materials, and through action.

When information expressed in one medium is converted into another

medium, channel conversion or information transfer is said to have takenplace.

Example:

NON-VERBAL RESPONSES

(CHANNEL CONVERSION)


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ASSESSINGREADING


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1. Perceptive reading (recognition of symbols, letters and words)

Reading aloud

Copying (reproduce in writing)

Multiple-choice recognition (including true-false and fill-in-the-blank)

Picture-cued identification

HOW TO ASSESS?


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2. Selective reading (focus on morphology, grammar, lexicon)

Multiple choice grammar/vocabulary tasks

Contextualized multiple choice (within a short paragraph)

Sentence-level cloze tasks

Matching tasks

Grammar/vocabulary editing tasks (multiple choice)

Picture-cued tasks (Ss choose among graphic representations

Gap-filling tasks (e.g., sentence completion)

HOW TO ASSESS?


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3. Interactive reading

Discourse-level cloze tasks (requiring knowledge or discourse)

Reading + comprehension questions

Short-answer responses to reading

Discourse editing tasks (multiple choice)

Scanning

Re-ordering sequences or sentences

Responding to charts, maps, graphs and diagrams

HOW TO ASSESS?


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4. Extensive reading

Skimming

Summarizing

Respinding to reading through short essays

Note taking, marginal notes, highlighting

Outlining

HOW TO ASSESS?

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