TESOL Reading Program
CONTENTS
LESSON 1.Understanding Reading
Session A Introduction
Session B How we read
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand what we bring to reading
• understand top-down and bottom-up processing
Session C Six essential reading strategies
When you finish this session, you will be able to
• understand six essential reading strategies:
♦ identifying the topic
♦ predicting and guessing
♦ reading for specific information
♦ reading for details
♦ interpreting or making inferences
Session D Problems and solutions
When you finish this session, you will be able to
• understand problems and solutions in the areas of:
♦ language
♦ topic and genre
♦ comprehension tasks
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 2.Preparing a Reading Lesson
Session A Introduction
Session B Before reading
When you finish this session you will be able to:
• understand ways to get students interested in a topic before they read
• recognize ways to pre-teach vocabulary
Session C While reading
When you finish this session you will be able to:
• use different techniques for teaching active reading
Session D After reading
When you finish this session you will be able to:
• check students’ general and detailed understanding
• help students to infer, interpret, and discuss the text
• expand a reading lesson to include other skills
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 3.Selecting and using reading materials
Session A Introduction
Session B Evaluating reading materials
When you finish this session you will be able to:
• understand what makes reading materials suitable
• choose appropriate materials for your students
Session C Selecting and using published materials
When you finish this session you will be able to:
• evaluate reading texts from published textbooks
• adapt these materials for your students
• adapt activities for other skills for reading practice
Session D Selecting and using authentic materials
When you finish this session you will be able to:
• recognize the pros and cons of authentic materials
• understand how to use authentic materials
• find appropriate authentic materials for your classes
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 4.Designing Effective Reading Tasks
Session A Introduction
Session B Purposes for reading
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• recognize different purposes for reading
• link these purposes to text types
• link these purposes to different strategies
• understand the importance of developing discourse awareness
Session C Designing effective reading tasks
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the importance of reading tasks
• identify two types of tasks
• adjust tasks according to the difficulty of the text
• understand when to use tasks in a lesson
Session D Extensive reading
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the benefits of extensive reading
• develop extensive reading projects
• identify follow-up activities for extensive reading
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 5.Assessing Reading
Session A Introduction
Session B Proficiency testing
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the purpose of proficiency tests
• recognize common item types in the reading proficiency tests
• prepare students for proficiency tests
Session C Achievement tests
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the purpose of achievement tests
• identify the characteristics of a good test
• develop testing items for reading tests
• identify important elements of marking tests
Session D Alternative assessment
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• identify the benefits of alternative assessment
• understand ongoing assessment
• recognize different types of alternative assessment for reading
• develop reading portfolio projects
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
TEST
End of Module Test