Stephen van Vlack

Sookmyung Women`s University

Graduate School of TESOL

Teaching Reading

Syllabus - Fall 2005

Week 1; September 5

Introductions to the course, to the materials, instructor, assignments, and everything else.

Go over the summer reading, Krashen (2004).

Homework: Get the textbook and materials.

Read chapters 1, 2, and 3 from Nuttall, pp. 1-39.

Week 2; September 12

The Basics

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 1, 2 and 3

What is reading?

Text and discourse

Approaching reading in a foreign language classroom

Summer reading project write-up due.

Homework: Read Vacca, Vacca, and Gove, Chapter 3, pp. 67-102.

Week 3; September 19 (Chuseok - to be rescheduled)

Early Literacy Development

Vacca, Vacca, and Gove (2000), Chapter 3

Early Literacy: From birth to school

Homework: Read Gaur article, pp. 19-30.

Read Rogers article, pp. 31-43.

Read Venezky article, pp. 111-129.

Read Scholes article, pp. 359-373.

Week 4; September 26

Orthography/Reading Connections

Gaur (1995)

Scripts and writing systems: A historical perspective

Rogers (1995)

Optimal Orthographies

Venezsky (1995)

How English is read: Grapheme-phoneme regularity and orthographic structure in word recognition

Scholes (1995)

Orthography, vision, and phonemic awareness

Student Teaching Presentation 1: Grellett (1981) p. 45 - Ex 2 - Reference.

Homework: Read Morrow, pp, 239-277.

Week 5; October 3 (Holiday - to be rescheduled)

Words and Sounds

Morrow (2001), Chapter 8

Word-study skills: phonemic awareness and phonics

Student Teaching Presentation 2: Grellett (1981) p. 60 - Ex3 - Previewing

Homework: Read Ong, chapters 1 and 3, pp. 5-15 and 31-77.

Week 6; October 10

The Nature of Orality

Ong (1982), Chapters 1 and 3

The orality of language

Some psychodynamics of orality

Student Teaching Presentation 3: Grellett (1981) p. 81 - Ex 10 - Skimming

Homework: Read Ong, Chapter 4, pp. 78-116.

Week 7; October 17

The Literate Transformation

Ong (1982), Chapter 4

Writing restructures consciousness

Student Teaching Presentation 4: Grellett (1981) p. 83 - Ex 1 - Scanning

Homework: Read Grabe and Stoller, Chapter 2, pp. 40-63.

Read Carrell and Eisterhold, Chapter 5, pp. 73-92.

Week 8; October 24

L2 Reading Connections

Grabe and Stoller (2002), Chapter 2

Comparing L1 and L2 reading

Carrell and Eisterhold (1998), Chapter 5

Schema theory and ESL reading pedagogy

Student Teaching Presentation 5: Grellett (1981) p. 95 - Ex 3 - Topic sentences

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 4 and 5, pp. 44-77.

Week 9; October 31

Making Reading Efficient

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 4 and 5

Efficient reading

Word attack skills

Student Teaching Presentation 6: Grellett (1981) p, 105 - Ex 3 - Reorder

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 6 and 7, pp. 78-124.

Week 10; November 7

Meaning in Reading

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 6 and 7

Reading for plain sense

Understanding discourse

Student Teaching Presentation 7: Grellett (1981) p. 107 - Ex - Description

Homework: Read Optiz (1998), Chapters 3, 4, and 5, pp.49-86.

Week 11; November 14

Flexible Grouping

Optiz (1998), Chapters 3, 4, and 5

Understanding flexible grouping basics

Selecting texts for flexible grouping

Planning for successful reading experiences in flexible grouping

Student Teaching Presentation 8: Grellett (1981) p. 130 - Ex - Order of sequence pictures

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapter 8, pp. 127-148.

Read Pilgren, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-18.

Week 12; November 21

Extensive Reading

Nuttall (1996), Chapter 8

An extensive reading program

Pilgreen (2000), Chapters 1 and 2

SSR: Its roots and rationale

The eight factors for SSR success

Student Teaching Presentation 9: Grellett (1981) p. 143 - Ex 5 - Gestures

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 9 and 10, pp. 149-180.

Week 13; November 28

Teaching Reading I

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 9 and 10

Planning reading lessons

Selecting texts

Student Teaching Presentation 10: Grellett (1981) p. 164 - Ex 1 - Mapping it out

Homework: Read Nuttall, Chapters 11 and 12, pp. 181-211

Week 14; December 5

Teaching Reading II

Nuttall (1996), Chapters 11 and 12

Questioning