¡READING!

Reading is one of the four skills where the objective is one of the most important aspects, because reading is not only a receptive skill, is an active skill that include cognitive abilities as predicting, guessing, understanding, inferring, anticipating, etc.

Teachers should prepare interesting activities to motivate students and look for flexible and varied activities, giving big importance to the background knowledge of the students, because it’s meaningful for learning processes.

Some strategies to improve reading skills are:

· Pre-reading: to improve student’s interest in the topic and motivate them asking for the
title, the pictures, the topic, etc. In these pre-reading activities, Ss are asked for find answers to given questions based on the text.

· Reading: to improve Ss understanding, inferring, acquiring vocabulary and to develop
linguistic and sociolinguistic knowledge of the Ss. In this strategy it is important to look for key words, skimming (looking for general information) and scanning (looking for specific information). It is also important to look for the main and the principal ideas, to analyze and interpret the reading text, story, book or another activity.

· Post-reading: the Ss apply the knowledge in other readings and contexts, integrating the
reading with the other skills (writing, listening and speaking). Post-reading is a strategy for reflect, for think in the most important aspects of the reading, to conclude and share what you learn and what you understand.

Other strategies as evaluating and commenting are important to interpret and understand a reading activity.

¡Let’s go to enjoy and read a lot!