Reimagining Reading:   Building Happy and

Successful ESL Readers

TESOL 2010, Boston, MA. Session #166486

Eva M. Ramos R. Panama.

Problem:Reading is sometimes a hard skill

to teach. Students, especially

beginners, find reading difficult

and even boring, changing that

becomes a real challenge for any

ESL teacher.

Questions:What is the right approach to use?

How can I make reading interesting and meaningful for my ESL students?

What resources can I incorporate

to make reading fun and enjoyable?

Solution:

Building Happy & Successful Readers:

The Plan + Strategies

= Success!

Purpose:

To approach reading with a specific plan in mind and apply different

effective and creative ideas to help ESL learners to become successful

readers while having fun at the same time.

Preparation:

In order to design a successful and memorable reading lesson we

need to start by considering the different factors that may affect

the impact that a reading selection may have.

Step 1: Before Planning

Who Reader

What Text

Why Purpose

How Strategies =

+

Dealing with a text in another language is not an easy task for

EFL/ESL learners, for that reason we have to help them become better

readers by developing reading proficiency through the use of

reading strategies.

Step 2: Building the Learner’s Reading Skills

Reading Strategies

KWL Scanning

Skimming SQ3R

Step 3: Planning Our Reading LessonPre

During

Post

PDPFRAMEWORK

Step 4: Becoming a better reading teacher.

Jigsaw Reading

PredictionGuide

Reader’sTheater

Choral Reading

Teacher-CreatedBooks

Fly-swatterReading

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--

something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach

out toward people whose lives are quite different from their

own”. Katherine Paterson