reimaigining reading: building happy and successful esl readers
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Some ideas on how to help our ESL students to become better readers.TRANSCRIPT
Reimagining Reading: Building Happy and
Successful ESL Readers
TESOL 2010, Boston, MA. Session #166486
Eva M. Ramos R. Panama.
Problem:Reading is sometimes a hard skill
to teach. Students, especially
beginners, find reading difficult
and even boring, changing that
becomes a real challenge for any
ESL teacher.
Questions:What is the right approach to use?
How can I make reading interesting and meaningful for my ESL students?
What resources can I incorporate
to make reading fun and enjoyable?
Solution:
Building Happy & Successful Readers:
The Plan + Strategies
= Success!
Purpose:
To approach reading with a specific plan in mind and apply different
effective and creative ideas to help ESL learners to become successful
readers while having fun at the same time.
Preparation:
In order to design a successful and memorable reading lesson we
need to start by considering the different factors that may affect
the impact that a reading selection may have.
Step 1: Before Planning
Who Reader
What Text
Why Purpose
How Strategies =
+
Dealing with a text in another language is not an easy task for
EFL/ESL learners, for that reason we have to help them become better
readers by developing reading proficiency through the use of
reading strategies.
Step 2: Building the Learner’s Reading Skills
Reading Strategies
KWL Scanning
Skimming SQ3R
Step 3: Planning Our Reading LessonPre
During
Post
PDPFRAMEWORK
Step 4: Becoming a better reading teacher.
Jigsaw Reading
PredictionGuide
Reader’sTheater
Choral Reading
Teacher-CreatedBooks
Fly-swatterReading
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--
something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach
out toward people whose lives are quite different from their
own”. Katherine Paterson