Flashcards on Teaching Reading: A Comprehensive Guide
Teaching Reading: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators
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Reading Instruction & Teaching
55 cards
Card 1
Question: What are balanced objectives for children up to age 7 in reading instruction and teaching?
Answer: Children enjoy being read to and looking at books; learn how text is written (lines, pages, spaces, capitals and lower-case letters); participate in a
Card 2
Question: What early writing and reading activities should young children be taught?
Answer: Copy short sentences with personal meaning and read them aloud; learn a basic set of sight words and begin spotting them in books; develop phonemic aw
Card 3
Question: What elements create a literate classroom environment?
Answer: Labels (e.g., Where is the butterfly?), posters, messages (English message board, post box, morning message), reading aloud, literacy events and routi
Card 4
Question: What is the teacher’s role in helping young learners develop reading skills and strategies?
Answer: Provide varied literacy experiences, create a literate environment, guide practice of interrelated skills, teach conscious strategies for difficult te
Card 5
Question: Why should reading instruction treat individual reading skills as interconnected rather than isolated?
Answer: Although individual skills can be practiced separately to a point, in reality they work together and depend on each other; effective instruction recog
Card 6
Question: What is the purpose of intensive reading lessons in instruction?
Answer: To read short texts with accuracy and understand not only what the text means but how the meaning is produced; lessons can focus on specific skills/st
Card 7
Question: What is the main idea of reading as described here?
Answer: Reading is an active transaction with written text in which the reader constructs meaning through interpretation influenced by past experiences, langu
Card 8
Question: What abilities do fluent readers demonstrate when reading?
Answer: They recognize words in print, use knowledge of language structure to form a mental notion of the topic, use semantic and syntactic information plus p
Card 9
Question: What should a good EFL reading program provide?
Answer: Information and practice in all components of reading, help students combine them rapidly, and develop strategies to compensate for gaps in language o
Card 10
Question: Why can slow reading speed reduce comprehension and enjoyment?
Answer: Because slow speed may cause forgetting and reduce enjoyment, interfering with effective understanding.