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    The document discusses strategies for improving reading comprehension skills. It describes four levels of reading proficiency and how teachers can help students progress to higher levels. An important strategy is teaching students to identify the main point, evidence, and examples in paragraphs using a graphic organizer. The document also recommends engaging students by incorporating pre-reading activities, longer texts, collaboration, and reflection. Teachers can use online reading tools to find leveled articles and measure comprehension. Finally, the document proposes a practical classroom activity of holding reading circles where students take on roles to discuss a text.

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    The document discusses strategies for improving reading comprehension skills. It describes four levels of reading proficiency and how teachers can help students progress to higher levels. An important strategy is teaching students to identify the main point, evidence, and examples in paragraphs using a graphic organizer. The document also recommends engaging students by incorporating pre-reading activities, longer texts, collaboration, and reflection. Teachers can use online reading tools to find leveled articles and measure comprehension. Finally, the document proposes a practical classroom activity of holding reading circles where students take on roles to discuss a text.

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    The document discusses strategies for improving reading comprehension skills. It describes four levels of reading proficiency and how teachers can help students progress to higher levels. An important strategy is teaching students to identify the main point, evidence, and examples in paragraphs using a graphic organizer. The document also recommends engaging students by incorporating pre-reading activities, longer texts, collaboration, and reflection. Teachers can use online reading tools to find leveled articles and measure comprehension. Finally, the document proposes a practical classroom activity of holding reading circles where students take on roles to discuss a text.

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    The document discusses strategies for improving reading comprehension skills. It describes four levels of reading proficiency and how teachers can help students progress to higher levels. An important strategy is teaching students to identify the main point, evidence, and examples in paragraphs using a graphic organizer. The document also recommends engaging students by incorporating pre-reading activities, longer texts, collaboration, and reflection. Teachers can use online reading tools to find leveled articles and measure comprehension. Finally, the document proposes a practical classroom activity of holding reading circles where students take on roles to discuss a text.

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    Training Reading

    Skills for Overall


    Comprehension
    EMI Resource Center, NCCU
    Contents

    Take a closer look at where


    Proficiency Levels your student’s current reading
    level and how you can help
    them jump to the next stage.
    An essential strategy to
    Skill Integration conquer overall
    comprehension.

    Discussion on making
    Growing Active materials more effectively and
    Readers giving students an active role.

    An activity that will assist your


    Practical Teaching learners to feel enthusiastic
    Idea for Class about reading.
    Reading Proficiency Levels
    Where are you are this scale?

    ➔ Four illustrative scales can be


    derived from an overall reading
    comprehension scale
    ➔ Scan QR code for each individual
    branch

    Source: Common European Framework Reference for Languages (CEFR)


    Skill Integration 1
    Point Evidence/Explanation
    Example (PEE)

    ➔ PEE helps students to understand


    that a paragraph is made up of
    different parts
    ➔ Divide paragraphs up to simplify
    loading

    Source: Common European Framework Reference for Languages (CEFR)


    PEE Example

    ➔ Where are the


    point, evidence,
    example(s)?

    Source: Pathways 4. National Geographic


    Skill Integration 1
    PEE - A Graphic Organizer

    Read the paragraph and look for these, highlight the Write the answers in the
    point in yellow, the evidence or explanation in green, table below.
    and the examples in blue

    P Point
    What is the point/main idea of the paragraph?

    E Evidence or explanation
    How does the writer support the point?

    E Example
    What examples does the weiter give?
    PEE Example 2

    Source: The Official IELTS Guide


    Growing Active Readers

    Scaffolding
    1. Pre-reading activities
    Vestibulum
    2. Speed reading
    congue
    3. Longer, more
    complex texts

    Reading
    in class
    Motivation
    Text exploitation
    1.Collaboration
    1.Teaching structures
    2.Pre-reading
    Vestibulum
    and lexis
    congue Vestibulum congue
    discussion
    2.Reflection activities
    questions
    and discussions
    3. Skills
    integration
    Using Materials Effectively on Read & Write
    from Cambridge
    ➔ Choose your
    reading level
    ➔ Search by topic
    ➔ Harvest real articles
    corresponding to
    your reading level
    ➔ Write a summary of
    the text
    ➔ Practice hard!

    Source:
    https://readandimprove.englishlanguageitutor
    ing.com/search
    Read & Write Tools

    ➔ Word Information
    and word cloud

    Source:
    https://readandimprove.englishlanguageitutor
    ing.com/search
    Read & Write Tools

    ➔ Comprehension
    Test

    Source:
    https://readandimprove.englishlangua
    geitutoring.com/search
    Practical Activity
    Hold Reading Circles
    ➔ Select an appropriate text for your target audience (e.g., article, magazine,
    academic book chapter)
    ➔ Give each learner one of the following roles:
    ◆ Chair — manages the discussion, ensures everyone can speak and
    encourages each participant. Chair comes up with 2 discussion questions
    based on the text.
    ◆ Summarizer — summarizes the text in ____ words
    ◆ Word Wizard — Help the group understand key terms in the text.
    ◆ Connector — Relate the text to the wider world. Consider how the text
    reminds you of, shed new light on the experiences, people, news, outside
    events etc.
    ◆ Illustrator — Draw some kind of picture or mind map related to the text
    Conclusion
    How can we help our students?
    Expose
    students to
    a variety of
    real-life
    texts

    Ask for
    Work on
    evidence
    and
    language
    justification
    precision

    Get
    students to
    use a
    variety of
    reading
    strategies
    Skill Integration 2 (probably will not use)
    KWL Tables

    ➔ It is very important that students read an academic text


    with a purpose. They should ask themselves “Why am I
    reading this text”, “What do I want to know?”
    ➔ What I KNOW
    ➔ What I WANT to know ➔ It is important that student need to do something with
    ➔ What I LEARNED it: make a group presentation, have a discussion, reflect
    on it, use the summary to write a reflection.

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