Teaching reading http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/tr/pair%20reading.jpg •(Foreign language) texts open the door into another world The written world •books, •comics and magazines, •texts on a computer screen, •on a mobile display, •inscriptions and labels Active reading •imagine and create a mental picture •try to predict what will happen next •recall what has happened previously •identify with the situations or characters •make judgements •find useful values in the text Pre-reading activities •Look and say/read •Look and do •Match words/sentences with pictures •Match halves of sentences together •Draw a picture •… Activities during reading •Fill in the chart •put the words or sentences in order •fill in the missing words in sentences •write words instead of pictures in the text •complete the last word in a sentence or the last sentence in a story •… Activities after reading •Draw a picture based on the text •fill in the crossword based on the text •mime the story •choose the right picture which suits the story from the set of pictures •discover the mistake in the summary •… Texts should : • • enable a creative partnership with the text, • involve interest, • involve the experience of a student "Easy reading is damned hard writing." Nathaniel Hawthorne