Research on Teaching Reading
Even more Research on Teaching Reading
Genres for Reading and Writing
Characteristics of Written Language
Strategies for Reading Comprehension
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This type of processing requires readers to recognize linguistic signals, and make sense of them.
What is bottom-up processing?
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It is okay to use this type reading, which involves a lot of freedom for readers, without much instruction of strategies?
What is extensive reading?
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This type of genre consists of a message in a card.
What is a greeting card?
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Readers can only rely on this, whereas we have intonation, pauses, rhythm, and more when speaking.
What are graphemes?
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This is what we need to inform our readers about prior to reading. It gives them a reason to read.
What is a purpose?
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Research indicates more information is required of the reader than the text. True or false
What is true?
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While adult ELL learners can speak in their L1, some have not acquired this skill in their L1.
What is non-literate?
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This type of genre is self-composed and contains your deepest thoughts. You might have a key to lock it.
What is a diary or journal?
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There is a difference between the way we speak and the way we write. Which is more formal?
What is writing?
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This type of reading happens when we quickly a text in order to get the gist of it.
What is skimming?
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This is how readers construct meaning.
What is schema?
300
This type of schemata requires that the reader have a general knowledge of the world.
What is content schemata?
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This type of genre alerts you to a sale of merchandise at an individual's home.
What is a garage (yard) sale sign?
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Readers must have the ability to read "into" the text or _____________ what is being said.
What is infer?
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ELLs sometimes use these strategies to fill in gaps when reading. Some examples are: context, word associations, and schemata.
What are compensation strategies?
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This type of schemata is made up of our knowledge of language and discourse structure.
What is formal schemata?
400
There hasn't been much research on these two aspects of reading.
What are fluency and reading time?
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This type of genre informs people of the impending marital union of 2 people.
What is a wedding invitation?
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Here's a benefit to reading, versus speaking, for ELLs. ELLs can read at their own __________________.
What is rate?
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The type of reading will allow the ELL to improve fluency and reading rate.
What is silent reading?
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This type of processing requires the reader to draw upon our own intelligence and experience to understand what is read.
What is top-down processing?
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This part of an ELL's life, and it affects how reading is perceived.
What is culture?
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This type of genre lists food choices and is found in a restaurant.
What is a menu?
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This is the part of English that has the most irregularities in it. Hint: It's not word families or phonetically decoded words.
What are sight words?
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This type of reading involves searching for a particular piece of information in a text.
What is scanning?
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