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Alice ChiuAlice Chiu

2008.04.29.2008.04.29.

How I teach Textbook readings

• Handout Part One: Content-oriented

• Handout Part Two: Language-oriented

Text-based Reading activities 1/2

• Scrambled sentences (2)

• Information Hunting (lesson plan 4)

• Predicting the story (6)

• Topic Sentences (10)

• Sentence combining (instructions 11)

• Discussions (12)

Text-based Reading activities 2/2

• Listening comprehension

• Information gap

• Matching games

• Writing the main idea

• Summary writing

• Creative writing

Using Graphic Organizers

• Cluster diagram (1)• Concept map / Mind map (4) (8)• Outline (4) (12 finding main ideas)• Venn Diagram• Chart (3) -- Fishbone diagram (7)• KWHL (11)

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/specificgos.html

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr2grap.htm

http://www.loyno.edu/~dciolino/Classes/GraphicOrganizers.htm

Project-based Reading Activities

• Reading Lab• Our Book Report Project• IWiLL Reading Club

閱讀圖書館 SRA Reading Lab

Online Resources (Reading)• For teachers

– Teaching Ideas– Articles on Reading from Teaching English– Strategies for Reading Comprehension– TV411 Reading Strategies– Reading skills from Ohio ESL

Online Resources (Reading)• For learners

– Guided Reading for with Joy the Zebra– CNN reading resources– ELC Study Zone– English-Zone: Reading – ESL Independent Study Lab: Reading 1 – ESL Independent Study Lab: Reading 2 – Reading comprehension texts with questions