Room 3: Lisa Lidor, Sari Michaeli and Anaghim Abbas
A top down approach to reading for HS learners would be having general knowledge of the topic and using it to infer information and details about the text. For example, if an unseen is about environment the students could assume the text will deal with climate change, ecology, animals and pollution. By having "top down" knowledge of a subject it makes it easier for students to "access" and approach the text. These students using "skimming and scanning" techniques when approaching a text.
A bottom up approach to reading for HS students would be understand the "bits and pieces" of English in a technical sense. For example, understanding parts of speech and tenses in a formulaic method. Students using this approach may have difficulty with exceptions and idiomatic expressions.