Reading Techniques for Teachers

By: Sharon White
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:27:00
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Reading is not just recognizing and linking letters in words. Reading is understanding an author’s thoughts and ideas and ability to develop these thoughts into your own attitudes and values. Reading can teach an individual by presenting unknown world of human souls, values, thoughts and feelings. Reading can teach harmonic interaction with the human and animal worlds and develop future attitude to an environment and successful life. Thus, teachers and parents must primarily present the world of books as a land of discoveries, diversity of life and the world wisdom.

Reading must not be boring, therefore teaching letters should be followed by introduction of the meaning of the worlds which a child is taught to pronounce. Teachers and parents must introduce the world books before start teaching their children to read. Here parents’ reading to their children is very effective. Children should see their parents reading as often as possible. The old tradition of bed reading can rarely be seen now at homes because parents are very busy at works and so tired to spend an hour with the children before they go to bed. Many parents do not even see the use and effectiveness of bed reading. However, children perceive parents’ examples more effectively than usual precepts about the use of reading. The recent stats have shown the children whose parents are used to read them in bed will more likely adore and enjoy reading in a future. About 85 percent of children who responded positively to the question ‘Do you like reading?’ have also positive answers to the question ‘Did your parents read you in childhood before going to bed?’ Parents should include in their daily schedule at least 30 minutes of bed reading for their children. This is an investment that will bring great interest to the children and their parents as well.

Teachers should continue being examples of good readers for their pupils. 15 minutes of describing the recent book a teacher has just read is much more effective technique than 30 minutes of speaking about reading use for study. From time to time teachers of literature classes should start their lessons with the phrase ‘I’ve recently read…’ and ‘Has anybody read the recent book of…?’ Such questions stimulates children to read because they show reading as a vital part of our lives, something that can create either a romantic, harmonic, funny, fantastic or adventure world which lives in readers’ mind but can be more realistic than the world around them!

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