Graded readers lend italy
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Slides from workshop given at LEND Italy, Sirolo. August 2014
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Graded readers lend italy
- 1. Making the most of graded readers Victoria Boobyer
- 2. Graded Reading What’s graded? Vocabulary, grammar complexity, number of words. Why graded reading? It makes literature accessible to all levels. It helps develop good reading habits and skills. It develops autonomy.
- 6. “What is interesting is that our participants felt that reading helped their oral / aural language proficiency. Books like [these] contain a great deal of colloquial language that learners with mostly formal language instruction experience have missed.” Cho, K and Krashen,S
- 7. “So I believe that ER impacts writing, listening and speaking because students know more vocabulary. The second possible factor is the increase in positive affect. Students develop positive attitudes toward and increased motivation for learning the L2.” Day, R
- 9. Turning reading into… Transposition different types of writing ‘When we abide still in one place, and yet seeme to speak divers things, many tymes repeating one sentence, but yet with other wordes, sentences, exornations, and fygures.’ Peacham, 1577
- 10. Different types of writing Genre - newspaper report, leaflet, summary, diary, letter, screenplay, text messages, cartoon (reduced / augmented) Style - sensationalist, modern, informal, formal Transvocalisation - first person to third person etc. Characters - change to modern celebrities, classmates Plot - change the ending, add a twist
- 11. Based on text from p44-45 ‘David Copperfield’ Black Cat ‘Green Apple’ series
- 12. From p9 ‘Peter Pan’ Black Cat ‘Green Apple’ series
- 13. The story so far…
- 14. Over to you… From p35 ‘Peter Pan’ Black Cat ‘Green Apple’ series
- 15. Different types of writing Genre - newspaper report, leaflet, summary, diary, letter, screenplay, text messages, cartoon (reduced / augmented) Style - sensationalist, modern, informal, formal Transvocalisation - first person to third person etc. Characters - change to modern celebrities, classmates Plot - change the ending, add a twist
- 16. Different types of speaking News report TV / radio drama Talk show TV / Radio advert for the book / film Phone conversation between characters
- 17. Reading Circles Groups of 5-6 students Roles: Discussion leader Summarizer Connector Word Master Passage person Culture Collector
- 18. Reading Circles: Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Read Chaucer and Chaucer’s world together. Develop interest. Read ‘Prologue’ together Discuss and assign stories and roles Read and prepare for homework Group discussion and presentation
- 19. Teacher resources on publisher websites
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Up until coffee break - briefly talking about why we should use graded readers and encourage extensive reading and then mostly practical ideas for writing, speaking, listening activities. After break practical ideas about e-books, how to choose and use them & digital activities.
- What is extensive reading? Top ten principles for extensive reading. Reading texts for enjoyment and to develop general reading skills. (c.f intensive reading) Why encourage extensive reading? Before you do anything else, add any activities…extensive reading in itself is very beneficial for SLA.
- Why encourage extensive reading? Before you do anything else, add any activities…extensive reading in itself is very beneficial for SLA.
- Extensive reading improves reading skills. Including word prediction from context and speed. Why is speed important? Reading fluency similar to spoken fluency * for comprehension
- 1994 Journal of reading. Kyung-Sook Cho Stephen Krashen. 4 participants showed Vocabulary increased but also oO speaking and listening improved to. Other studies show writing improved.
- How other skills improve? Prof Richard R Day - SLA and ESL lecturer
- What to read? How students choose books to read independently.
- Transposition - synonyms, sentence structure, embellishment, characters (people)
- For all levels from long diaries or letters to text messages, cartoons and promotional posters.
- Who’s David? This is a higher level story taken from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Great for checking relationship, comprehension,
- Anyone know the story or characters? Peter Pan… Mother, Nana (dog) Wendy, John, Michael, Peter Pan, Lost Boys in Neverland
- Briefly the story so far on Sonic pics…
- Anyone know the story or characters? Peter Pan… Mother, Nana (dog) Wendy, John, Michael, Peter Pan, Lost Boys in Neverland.
- Taking worksheet p2. In class read all story first. Idea of characters and not interrupted. In your groups can you read through the text and then think which type of transposition it may lend itself to.
- News report with ‘bystanders’ people who found body etc. TV drama of whole book condensed Phone conversation. Information gaps. Characters… ? Teacher students work out Qs and bring in one at a time. Peter Pan
- Reading circles were developed to help use readers in class. Unfortunately, my SSs not like many of the stories. BUT can use the ideas with any story.
- Flipped classroom… input prep, input and production in class. I think can just be a damp squib if not make more of meal out of production (share with other groups) add to blog etc..
- Nearly all the publishers have teacher or teacher and student resources. Black Cat has resources for teaching with book, IWB, quizzes etc.