10. vs.
Intensive Extensive
Reading Reading
Less More
Higher Level Comfortable Level
Tests Book Talks
Study Pleasure
11. Reading Background
O What did you read as a child?
O What kinds of reading did you do in school?
O Do you have a favorite all-time book? What is it?
O What is the last book you read?
O What kinds of books do you like to read ?
O What do you like to read other than books?
O What percentage of time do you read online?
15. Academic ESL 140 & 150
Book 1: Whole Class, Level 4
Book 2: Book Club Choice, Level 4
Book 3: Book Club Choice, Level 5
Book 4: Personal Choice, Levels 4-6
Students buy the books.
16. Noncredit ESL 5-9
4 Books – all personal choices
Students borrow from the campus “library.”
25. Book 1 – Whole Class
Ikuko goes to England to
study, promising to return
to Japan to get married.
But in Birmingham, Ikuko
not only discovers
another way of life but
also a great deal about
herself.
This is a powerful story
about a love that is
carried across three
continents and even time
itself.
26. Ikuko wondered if she was making a
terrible mistake. “It’s only for six months,” she
said to Hiroshi, trying to persuade herself as
much as him.
“A lot can happen in six months,” he
said. “I don’t want to lose you. Remember you
promised to come back.”
Ikuko looked at her ring. “I’ll come
back,” she said.
They said goodbye, but as she went
through to the departure lounge she looked
back one last time. Hiroshi was standing there,
his hair falling into his eyes, looking lost and
lonely in the middle of the airport crowds.
42. Final Projects
O Posters O Theme Song
O Comics
O Digital Photostories O Fakebook Page
O Movie Trailer O Audio Review
O A Different Ending O Timeline
O Book Ad O Poem
O Radio O Missing Scene
Announcement O Letter
51. Just one puzzle piece
O Intensive
reading
O Tests
O Vocabulary
O Grammar
O Essays
52. “Reading makes immigrants of us all.
It takes us away from home,
but more important,
it finds homes for us everywhere.”
Editor's Notes
More about the how than the why – I always see students torturing themselves over reading – dictionaries, bent over, highlighters, scrunched up faces. They would groan when they saw two pages.
Student ran into the door while reading . . Showed up with a band-aid on her forehead!
Our reading textbook – like any textbook
Intensive reading – dense – factual, usu. Nonfiction – all good for academic study
Lots of choices
This is what I was going for instead – ESL readers – lots of them
Something about picking up a book and holding it, paging through it cover to cover
So this is the difference – see website for research on extensive reading – we need both – but students don’t often get both in their classes.The reality turns out to be that they read more than those four.Creating life-long readers.
Done as journals and group discussion
In China, a child whose parents own 500 books will average 6.6 more years in education than a comparable child from a bookless age.
Model book club behaviorHigh-interest – show them they can read it and they can read a lot.
I model and am excited? I read too – I’m not reading something else that is harder. I want to show them that reading is enjoyable at any level.