| Reading |  | | The first page in this section contains activities that can be used with any sort of reading material. The second page has activities for specific materials, such as phone books, medicine labels, etc. There is also a sub-section on sight word activities on the side of this page. |
Tell Me About It
An activity to help intermediate or advanced students practive wh- questions in the context of a reading lesson |
Key Word Prediction
This is a pre-reading task that helps leaners make predictions about a text they will read. |
Making Predictions
Here a procedure you can use to help learners build their prediction skills. |
Reading Rate Improvement
It can be difficult for readers to increase their speed in reading. Here is a reading activity that focuses on reading fluency. |
Summary Reading
You and your student will compare thoughts about a reading text by summarizing it. |
Questioning Partners
Learners help each other understand a reading passage better by creating questions for each other. |
Memory Enhancement
This is a strategy learners can do with you and then later on their own to improve reading comprehension. |
The Teacher is Wrong!
One fun way to practice reading and listening is for the tutor to read a passage and deliberately make mistakes for the learner to catch. |
Teaching and Practicing Scanning
Beginning readers often read too carefully, agonizing over every letter and every word. They read slowly, get frustrated, and they frequently don’t comprehend what they’ve read. Scanning (the process of quickly locating a specific fact or concept) is a valuable skill that should be taught and practiced with students.
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