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Penguin Guide To Guided Readers
penguin Guide to Using Best Sellers
Using Films and Tv
DEALING WITH READERS IN THE EFL CLASSROOM - WORKSHOP BY VANESA - FEBRUARY 2007
Readers in the classroom
Material: photocopies with questions and the different readers used in all the levels
Warm-up:
Find someone who…
Has dealt with the same readers you have and share ideas about your experience, how you worked with it, what students liked most, least.
Feedback
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Discussion : pre-reading activities. (based on the readers they’ve worked with in Network especially, although of course they can mention other ideas as well)
1) How can we introduce a reader in the classroom for the first time? Make a list of activities. (Ask Javier to explain what he did in his upper 2 course)
2) How can we deal with pre-reading activities? Mention everything we must take into account so that our students can understand it and are ‘eager to read’.
3) How can we integrate the teaching of vocabulary with the readers? (pre-teaching, making students use it, predictions, they’ll read them later, then they’ll use them when discussing the readers , the word bag)
Feedback
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Discussion: while-reading activities
1) What are the advantages of making our students focus on the questions about the reader at home?
2) What are the different activities we can do in class once students have read either at home or in class?
Feedback:
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Discussion: follow-ups / after-reading activities
1) What’s the difference between while-reading and after-reading activities?
2) How important do you think after-reading activities are? As or more important, students can create, produce, we realize whether they have read or not.
3) Mention the different activities which can be done.
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Dealing with films and readers:
Mention the advantages and disadvantages of having our students work on a reader which has a film version. Would it be possible to overcome or compensate for any of those disadvantages?
Which activities can be done using the reader and the video?
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TIPS:
Is there anything essential we must do or tell our students as regards the readers?
· Read it till you understand it
· Answer comp qs at home
· Read it and remember the story so that you are able to speak about it in class
· Use a dictionary if necessary
· If a student is absent he should phone a classmate or the institute to find out about the homework
· If a student was absent the day a certain chapter of the reader was discussed, he must read that chapter plus the chapter which was assigned for the following class.
· Reading day
· Remember to check students’predictions.
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Follow-up:
Find someone who will have the same course you have this year and share ideas about the corresponding reader. (They look at it and may come up with ideas)
Pre-reading activities:
· We can show sts the front cover but not the title and ask them to predict what it is about. They can give it a title and compare it with the real one.
· Ask students to read the chapter heading (in the right order) and predict what the story is about.
· Give students the title of the book and cards with the different chapter headings. Students order them in the way they want and make up a story . It would be grreat to ask them to write it so that when they finish reading the book the can compare the real story with the story they made up before reading it.
· Predictions with parts of the text. (paragraphs, letters, first and last sentences of chapters, etc.)
Activities to check understanding:
Number the events in order,
Join the two parts of the sentences
Complete sentences with one word (from the box)
True/False activities
Who said it? Who are they speaking to? Who/What are they speaking about?
Choose the best alternative
Cross out the incorrect word and write the correct one.
After-reading activities
Board game with qs, roleplays, vocabulary cards, feelings cards, games made up by the students (sts make qs for the others to answer - crosswords)
