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Transparent Language Education Webinar Series Create a Communicative Language Classroom:
Designing Activities that Teach All 4 Skills Part II: Reading and Writing
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Agenda
• Teaching Reading and Writing
• What is it?
• Can it be communicative?
• Strategies that work!
• Managing Communicative Groups
• Q&A
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Reading
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"Reading does not draw on one kind of cognitive skill and most texts are understood in
different ways by different readers."
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Can reading be communicative?
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Reading Instruction vs. Communicative Reading
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Reading Instruction Communicative Reading
Recognizing words Purpose
Understanding grammar patterns Comprehension
Remembering facts Analysis
Designing Reading & Writing Tasks: Process
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• Set the stage
• Understand what readers already know
Pre-Reading/Writing
• Strive for collaboration
• Task-based
Reading/Writing • Reach for target
language production
• Synthesis
Post-Reading/Writing
Reading Tasks Strategy #1: Read Aloud
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Read Aloud Example
• Partner A’s First Paragraph: The Olympic Games were started by the
Greeks more than 3,500 years ago when Greece was an important world
power. In those days, women were not allowed to watch or to compete in the
Olympics. Men competed without wearing clothes. Some of the early Olympic
Games included running, skiing, and boxing. The Olympic Games stopped
when Greece lost its great power.
• Partner B’s First Paragraph: The Olympic Games were started by the
Greeks less than 3,500 years ago when Greece was an unimportant world
power. In those days, women were not allowed to listen or to compete in the
Olympics. Men competed without wearing tennis shoes. Some of the early
Olympic Games included running, wrestling, and boxing. The Olympic Games
stopped when Greece lost its great language.
http://www.apu.ac.jp/rcaps/uploads/fckeditor/publications/polyglossia/Polyglossia_V18_Greg_Kajiura.pdf
Reading Tasks Strategy #3: Read & Run
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Reading Tasks Strategy #4: Slashed Text
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Reading Tasks Strategy #5: Class Text Bank
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Writing
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Writing Task Strategy #1: Group Brainstorming
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Writing Task Strategy #2: Visuals
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Writing Task Strategy #3: Story Starter
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"It was a dark and stormy night…" Image by Middle Island Fire Department via Flickr
Writing Task Strategy #4: Whole Class Editing
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Writing Task Strategy #5: Whole Class
Newspaper or Blog
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Group Work Challenges
Mixed proficiency
• Differentiate
• Assign roles
• Scaffold the lesson
Off task behavior
• Peer review sheet
• Collect work in chunks
• Increase pressure in environment
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