Teaching
Reading
Nowadays, English is the
main language of the world. There are a lot of people uses English languages
for communication and the parents must focus on learning English for theirs
children at school. There are 4 important skills for learning English of
students. One of them is reading skill, so students need to be able to read
book, documents, computers, mobile devices, signs or billboards. Reading helps
students to learn and acquire English. We can divide reading into extensive
reading and intensive reading, moreover; there are other activities such as:
reading activities, responding to a text, read more comprehension, and etc. for
practice reading skill of students.
First, Extensive
reading is a reading as much as possible by without dictionary. This lets you
get more complex sentences with ease, reinforces the words you already know and
helps you learn new words from context .(Julian Bamford
and Richard R. Day)
Second, the intensive
reading activities include skimming a text for specific information to answer
true or false statements or filling gaps in a summary, scanning a text to match
headings to paragraphs, and scanning jumbled paragraphs and then reading them
carefully to put them onto the correct order. We often get students to read
intensively in class. This means that they will look at a short reading text
and do various exercise based on it, moreover; reading activities that we can
ask students to do almost anything with a reading text. Here are some of the
most common activities. They designed so that the students get a general
understanding of the text first, for instance; when students read about the
text and we can ask them why or what they agree with or disagreed with. We can
divide the students into group of three (or more) and doing for JIGSAW READING activities.
Next, responding to a
text. Before teachers give questions to students, they have to read a text
because they have to know about details in a text. When they know, we can ask
them to respond to it in various ways. They may answer the questions or discuss
whether they liked the text or not.
Furthermore, teachers
use more comprehension for practice reading skill of students. When the
students have read a text for the first time, teacher often ask them to read it
again and look for more information because it helps to ensure that they have
really understood what the reading.
In addition to,
teachers can use language question after students read a text which teachers
often ask them to look at a text to find out things about words and phase.
Finally, Activities for
practice reading skill is Follow-up task. We can follow-up task by using topic
of the text or exploring some of the language in it, for instance: students can
discuss any issues that were in the text. Next, students can role play from a
situation leading from the text, therefore; we can follow-up tasks by use
questions, discuss, role play, research, rewrite, and etc.
To sum up, reading necessary
skill for learners. If you read more it can develop your reading skill. There
are 2 kinds of reading and other activities for practice reading skill of
learner. Reading helps students to learn and acquire English.
