From Activity 1 to Activity 2

Hello!!

Today we start to improve our first activity (1) to create a new one that involve the three stages of the reading comprehension, and present to the student a better way to face the activities in foreing lenguage.

It is important to provide clear  instructions to our students in the way how they can do the activities. It's not only to give them a text to read. It's necesary  introduce them to the reading using special tools to make it easier.

The stage of pre-reading maybe is the most important part of a reading comprehension activity, because if you as a teacher don't guide your student into the context of the activity, the result couldn't be the expected.

What I learn today?

I learned:
The strategies to pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading comprehension activities. I discovered the huge change that a pre-reading activity can cause in the students and make them understand easier all the topics.

How do I plan to use it in next term?

I will use specialy the pre-reading activities, because I found the wonderfull changes than those activities can make into a class.

Now I present my notes of the class.

3 LEVELS OF READING COMPREHENSION

1.    Reading on the line (Literal)

Understanding and remembering

·         Find meaning directly in the text.

·         Mentally answer the question. Who? What? When? Where?

2.    Reading between the lines (Inferential)

Applying and Analyzing

·         Readers interpret what is in the text

·         Keys concerns are:

o    What does the passage represent, suggest or personify?

o    What does a certain allusion or metaphor mean?

o    You are analyzing, interpreting, classifying, comparing, contrasting and finding patterns.

3.    Reading beyond the lines (Critical)

Evaluating and creating

·         Readers move beyond the text to connect literature to their own experiences as well as with universal meaning.

BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

READING COMPREHENSION LEVEL	SKILL	TYPE OF QUESTION
Reading on the line (Literal)	Understanding	What is the meaning of?  describe , explain paraphrase, retell
	Remembering	Who what when where cite define find list
Reading between the lines (Inferential)	Analyzing	What other ways could …? Categorize, dissect,
	Applying	How would you solve? Apply, demonstrate, implement and practice.
Reading beyond the lines (Critical)	Creating	What would it be like if…? Create, develop, generate, produce, imagine.
	Evaluating	What do you think that…? Conclude, debate, justify, judge assess.

SKIMMING: For speed reading.

SCANNING: Look for details.

PRE-READING STRATEGIES

·         Reading the little and imagining what the text might be about.

·         Looking al illustration /pictures and trying to guess how they are related to the text.

·         Skimming the text quickly to get the gist.

·         Reading the first line of every paragraph to understand what the text is about.

·         Thinking about previous know-ledge on the topic of the text.

WHILE-READING STRATEGIES

·         Reading without looking up every unknown word in the dictionary.

·         Using a dictionary for the important words.

·         Guessing the meaning of a word from the grammatical category.

·         Remembering a new word by thinking of a situation in which the word might be used.

·         Skipping some of the unknown words.

·         Rereading a sentence.

·         Considering the other sentences in the paragraph to figure out the meaning of a sentence.

·         Reading without translating word-for-word.

·         Having a picture of the events in the text in mind.

·         Thinking aloud during the reading.

·         Paying attention to words or phrases that show how the text is organized.

·         Taking notes on the important points of the text.

·         Making guesses about what will come next based on the information already given in the text.

·         Relating the text to background knowledge about the topic to remember important information.

POST-READING STRATEGIES

·         Classifying the words according to their meanings.

·         Classifying the words according to their grammatical categories.

·         Summarizing the main ideas.

·         Rereading the text to remedy comprehension failures.

·         Rereading the text to remember the important points.

Thank you!!