Teaching Reading

When teaching reading it's important to consider two important processes: 

📌Bottom-up which consists on recognizing multiple linguistic signals (letters, morphemes, syllables, words, phrases, grammatical cues, among others), also called data-driven operation, requires a sophisticated knowledge of the language. 

📌Top-down or conceptually driven, processing in which readers draw their own intelligence and experience to understand a text.

The combination of both processes is known as Interactive Reading. 

All the knowledge, information, emotions, experiences and culture we own is called Schemata. Which is the result of all the graphic representations the readers have in mind.

Some common written texts are: 

         🚩 ARTICLE
         🚩 NOVELS

         🚩 JOURNALS

         🚩 TEXT MESSAGES

         🚩 ESSAYS

         🚩 JOB APPLICATION 

         🚩 RECIPES

Characteristics                                                        Strategies

📂Permanence                         📛 Identify the purpose                                          📛 Analyze Vocabulary
📂Processing time                   📛 Use rules and patterns to decode the text          📛 Distinguish Meaning
📂Distance                               📛 Use silent reading techniques                                
📂Orthography                         📛 Skim the text for main ideas                      
📂Complexity                          📛 Scan the text for specific information
📂Vocabulary                           📛 Use mapping or Clustering
📂Formality                             📛 Guess words if you aren't certain