SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING A READING COURSE

▣ SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING A READING COURSE

▶ DEFINING READING GOALS

■ maximize independent reading opportunities, facilitate negotiated interaction with texts, foster metacognitive awareness and learner autonomy, and expand access to new content areas. When planning a reading course, one of the major considerations should be giving learners ample time and opportunity to engage in independent reading. 

 

 

■ A discourse-oriented reading course should allow learners to negotiate their interaction with text by constantly being involved in making choices and decisions with respect to the text. For example, learners can be told of different reading purposes for the same text and the consequences related to cach. Accordingly, students can then make decisions about how they would prefer to process the text. The activities accompanying a text should provide the learners with a variety of ways to attack the text.

 

■ Metacognitive awareness helps readers make decisions and choices before, during, and after their reading of the thxt.

 

 

 

■ Expose the learner to a variety of texts, genres, content areas, and styles of writing.

 

 

 

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▶ READING ACTIVITIES THAT LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIC READING

 

■ Language knowledge, which includes recognition of vocabulary and syntax as well as graphic representations: discourse knowledge and sociocultural knowledge, which include recognition and understanding of discourse features that are textual in nature, diccourse features that relate to writing convetions and geres and social and cultural knowledge related to writing.

 

 

 

■ In order to help learners become independent and strategic readers they need to engage in the processing of a large stock of multipurpose reading matter. The selection of the reading passages, stories, and articles is perhaps the most important feature of a good reading course.▣ SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING A READING COURSE 

 

 

 

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▶ DEFINING READING GOALS 

■ Maximize independent reading opportunities, facilitate negotiated interaction with texts, foster metacognitive awareness and learner autonomy, and expand new content areas. When planning a reading course, one of the primary considerations should be giving learners ample time and opportunity to engage in independent reading. 



■ A discourse-oriented reading course should allow learners to negotiate their interaction with text by constantly making choices and decisions concerning the text. For example, learners can be told of different reading purposes for the exact text and the consequences related to each. Accordingly, students can then decide how they would prefer to process the text. The activities accompanying a text should provide the learners with various ways to attack the text. 

■ Metacognitive awareness helps readers make decisions and choices before, during, and after they read the text.

 

■ Expose the learner to a variety of texts, genres, content areas, and writing styles.

 

 

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▶ READING ACTIVITIES THAT LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIC READING

■ Language knowledge, which includes recognition of vocabulary and syntax and graphic representations: discourse knowledge and sociocultural knowledge, which include recognition and understanding of discourse features that are textual in nature, discourse features that relate to writing conventions and genres and social and cultural knowledge related to writing.

 

■ To help learners become independent and strategic readers, they need to engage in the processing of a large stock of multipurpose reading matter. The selection of the reading passages, stories, and articles is perhaps the most essential feature of a good reading course.