Reading Is a Psycholinguistic
Guessing Game
Betty Huang 黃珮君
【臺北報導】臺北市政府教育局為期增加學
生英語學習節數，增進學生英語學習能力，
提供英語聽說練習機會，加強學生英語生活
會話，並推動英語閱讀教學活動，活化學生
英語學習興趣，訂定臺北市公立國民小學加
強學生英語能力方案—統整規劃英語課程及
學習節數實施計畫，自100學年度起，國小3
至6年級部分，每週將增加一節英語課，即每
週實施三節英語課，對應增加之學生英語學
習節數，將辦理英語正式教師聯合甄選 。
Words
Story
Comprehension
Sentences
 Goodman, K. (1976)
“Reading is a psycholinguistic guessing
game…Efficient reading does not result from precise
perception and identification of all elements, but
from skill in selecting the fewest, most productive
necessary to produce guesses which are right the
first time.”
Reading
Strategies
Anxiety Free
Teacher
Student
Reading
strategy
Instruction
Adventure
Exploring
Teaching Kids how to use reading strategies
Pre reading : Connect the reader and the book
After reading: Check reading comprehension /
Word bank
Picture cue
To predict the
story
Where did it
start?
Can you do
Kung Fu?
Kung Fu
Do Knug Fu
have animal
names?
How many
types of
Kung Fu do
you know?
Context clues
To encourage
kids to read
on
Dorothy, Toto and the
yellow road to look for the
go along the
of OZ.
They talk to a tin
He needs some
. He can’t move!
.
The tin
is sad. He tells Dorothy
he can’t love because he doesn’t have
a
.
Picture cue
To guess the
meaning of
the
unfamiliar
word
Activity 3.
What’s the missing word?
Semantic cue
/ Syntactic
cue
To decode the
meaning of the
unfamiliar
word
He needs some oil.
Dorothy
scarecrow
Wizard
woodman
oil
heart
Syntactic cue
To guess the
meaning of
the
unfamiliar
word
Dorothy, Toto and the scarecrow go
along the yellow road to look for the
Wizard of OZ.
They talk to a tin woodman. He can’t
move!
He needs some oil. The tin woodman is
sad.
He tells Dorothy he can’t love because
he doesn’t have a heart.
Read on their own
Make use of reading strategies
Take – home reading portfolio /
Check reading comprehension
Book Title: The Wonderful Wizard of OZ
Page
2-11
P.12-21
P.22-27
Words I don’t understand
I guess they
mean
They actually
mean
Book Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Pages
2-11
Words
scarecrow
○
Wizard
△
woodman
oil
heart
Sight Words
Read aloud
because
is
and
some
have
Parent’s Signature:
Word meaning
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