Effective Reading Skills
This module is divided into 12 chapters, with each chapter having three subdivisions: pre-reading activities, whilst reading activities, and post-reading activities. The pre-reading activities include a vocabulary preview, the most significant determiner in reading comprehension. Following this well-designed pre-reading section is the reading passage and numerous post-reading activities. The post-reading activities focus on recognizing paragraph structure, main ideas, topic sentences, and vocabulary development. Strategies for reading, such as using punctuation clues to decode meaning and recognizing author intent, are also included in some of the chapters. Many of the chapters also include an activity aimed at improving learner vocabulary skills as a post-reading activity, and all include a class discussion activity, allowing students to integrate oral skills with the reading objective. The reading passages in each chapter cover a variety of themes–such as education, nature, weather, directions, cultures, laws, eating habits, health, media, holidays, and science. Additionally, teachers will find the treatment of cultural diversity within many reading selections especially accommodating to classroom populations with multi-ethnic backgrounds.