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Teaching Reading at Senior Middle School
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Elements of A Text

Top Down

  • Writer, audience and location
  • Genre, style, register (level of formality)
  • Layout or format
  • Coherence and cohension
  • Grammar
  • Vocabulary
  • Punctuation
  • Letters

Cohension

  • therefore
  • however
  • farthermore
  • moreover
  • thus
  • order words: later, afterwards

Cohesive devices

Conherence: is the logical organization of ideas. How the idea fixed together in a text.

The logic is differen of English from Chinese. English text is in linear logic while Chinese is in a round logic.

Reading sub skill:

  • Prediction

e.g. What did the threter open?

Then you can predict and/or phraph the type of language can be used in the text.

  • skimming: way of reading newspaper
  • scanning: find specific details
  • Reading and notetaking
  • Inferring

Always read the task first, avoid word spotting. 

Pre-reading

Chinese learner need extra-research in understanding the text.

  • Pre reading development of background knowledge
  • Thinking about writer, audience and location of text
  • Look at titles, headings or pictures and predicting content

While reading

  • Skimming
  • Working out the writer's writing pattern
  • Working out internal structure of text
  • Identify conherence decive
  • Working out meaning of word and structures

Post-reading

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