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The Instant Access Treasure Chest The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities

Strategies for Teaching Reading

Remember the keys to good language teaching:

• Pre-teaching.
• Teaching.
• Post-teaching (follow up).

Pre-reading:

• Give the students the title, the beginning sentence, or the ending sentence and have them brainstorm the possible story line.
• Have the students illustrate the story.
• Have the students write down the list of words that they understand.
• Have the students write down the vocabulary that they don't understand. Use the Lozanov/Suggestopaedic method to teach/learn the vocabulary.
• Teach the students how to skim and scan (very important).
• Pair the students. Have the stronger ones help the weaker ones.

First reading:

• Put the students into small groups and have them discuss the reading selection, taking it in small chunks.
• Have the students illustrate what they have read.
• Have the students construct a dialogue and have them act it out.
• Have the students tell in their own words what they have read.
• Have the students identify the main idea of each paragraph.
• Have the students tell you what happens next.

Second/third reading:

• Teach the students how to recognize words from the same family of words (e.g. a purchase, to purchase , purchasing power)
• Teach the students how to make educated guesses.

Post-reading (often the ignored phase):

• Have the students tell the story from another perspective.
• Ask the students to write a (short) summary.
• Have the students illustrate the entire story and then tell it orally to their group/class using their illustration (s).

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