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teaching reading

teaching reading

3 2.7
Helping beginners learn to read
  • noun
  • /ˈtiːtʃɪŋ ˈriːdɪŋ/
translation icon : enseñanza de la lectura
  • Clearly, direct instruction can be effective in teaching reading skills in Arabic and English.
  • teaching reading and writing
  • teaching reading comprehension
  • teaching reading skills

Examples

  • Part of the process of teaching reading involves instruction in the sound structure of speech.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The workshop on teaching reading provided valuable insights for new teachers.

  • Mrs. Arnold reviewed several resources on teaching reading that she had used in graduate school.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The teacher who demonstrated the most knowledge for teaching reading seemed able to implement new practices with quality.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Our overarching goal was to explore how history teachers could teach reading skills through U.S. history content.

    Academic text (2015)
  • DI has empirical evidence showing its effectiveness in teaching reading and language skills to a variety of students.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Increasingly, music teachers are required to assist, tutor, or teach reading skills in the music classroom.

    Academic text (2012)
  • In the end, Katherine made important gains in her content knowledge for teaching reading.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Before the Common Core, much of my reading instruction focused on teaching reading comprehension strategies.

    Academic text (2012)
  • One instructional approach that systematically and explicitly teaches reading skills is direct instruction (DI).

    Academic text (2012)

How Reading-Related

teaching reading
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Surface Forms

Morphology

teaching + reading

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'teaching' (the activity of instructing) with 'reading' (the skill of decoding/comprehending text), i.e. instruction that is specifically about reading. This compositional noun phrase follows a common cross-linguistic pattern (activity + object/skill) and would be easily understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Teaching reading comes from the simple classroom image of a teacher sitting beside a child, pointing to letters and helping the child sound out words. So, teaching means showing or helping and reading means making sense of letters, and the phrase means 'instructing beginners in how to read'.