two children lying on carpet in classroom reading

Reading skills

There are a number of skills involved in reading for example predicting, skimming, scanning and recognising links. We need to work with our students to analyse what these skills are and also to show them how they can get better at these skills. We also need to ask comprehension questions and conduct activities that will practise these specific skills.

Part 1 shows some examples of activities that practise a range of reading skills.

Part 2 focuses on tips from teachers and highlights some more example activities.

Procedure:

  • Download the session notes below. The notes contain discussion, video-viewing and reflection tasks.
  • Follow the tasks by going through the video in sequence.
  • The video and session notes are designed as self-study resources to be worked through together. Techniques are transferable to other classes in other contexts.

Download the session notes

Part 1: Reading skills

Part 2: Reading skills

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quite interesting
Hi I can't access the video of this lesson. Would you please check it. Abolfazl
Hello Thanks for letting us know - we have had a technical issue with the site this week, but the video is working now - please let us know if you are still having problems. Thanks, Cath
Hi Thanks for your response. I need to download the videos because my connection speed is so low and I can't access them online. All the videos are downloadable. I can download the first part successfully but I can't download the second part. Unfortunately part 2 has not any link for downloading like other videos. Thanks.
A very clear and useful reminder. Thank you.
very interesting and useful.
Very interesting and clear.....Thanks
good and helpful.
Hello The first part is not downloadable. plz fix the problem
Hello, If you want to watch Part 1, you can click on the image above and the video should start playing on the page. It is working fine here. The video cannot be downloaded, unfortunately. Hope that helps, Cath TE Team

no download link 

Hello

The video can be watched from the website directly, but is not available for download I'm afraid.

Thanks

Cath
TE Team

The videos with examples already used by teachers is very helpful

Hi, could anyone please show me how to access the video? I can't find the link the the video. Thank you so much!

Hi MintZhou

Thanks for your comment and flagging this up - the video has now been restored and you can just click on the video above. Hope that helps!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Hi!
Could you please give an acces to a video Unit 4?
Vita

Hi Vita,

Thank you for bringing this problem to our attention. I have contacted the tech support team to get the video restored to the page and will let you know as soon as it's ready to access again.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Jenny

TE team

Hello, all the videos are not working. Is there any way to watch them?

Thank you.

Hi Idn,

There was a technical issue with the videos this morning, but it seems to have been fixed now as both video are now accessible from the webpage.

I hope that you can access them too. Please let us know if that is not the case.

Thanks,

Jenny

TE team