Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Abandoned: Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language by Christine Nuttall


Started: July 05, 2022





July 10, 2022 Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language p.1-40
July 17, 2022 Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language p.40-62
July 24, 2022 Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language p.62-78
July 31, 2022 Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language p.78-96
August 7, 2022 Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language p.96-100
August 14, 2022 Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language p.100-106
August 21, 2022 Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language p.106-108

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Find the Missing Sentence: Reading Activity

Sample: docs, pub

Notes: I had previously posted this activity as an example of Running Dictation for Reading Texts.  But I've been thinking recently that perhaps I had mislabeled the activity.  The activity itself wasn't running dictation.  Running dictation was simply a way of checking the answers.  The activity itself was "Find the Missing Sentence."

This activity is partially inspired by similar activities mentioned in Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language by Christine Nuttall.  The idea is that it practices students ability to recognize coherence in a text by removing a sentence, and seeing if the students can recognize where there is a gap in the text.

The sample activity is from Q: Skills for Success: Reading and Writing 4: Unit 3 Reading 1: The Good Teen p.65-70.  The text has been recopied onto a Google Doc, but one sentence from each paragraph has been deleted.  The students have to read through the paragraph, and identify where the missing sentence is located.

The directions I originally included with this activity are:
Directions: Tell students to close their books.  Put them in pairs.  Give each pair a copy of pages 1-2.  Instruct them that there is one sentence missing from each paragraph.  They have to read the paragraph and use the cohesion clues to tell where sentences are probably missing.  They mark the spot in the paragraph where they think the sentence is missing.
Then, give each pair a copy of sheet 3.  Instruct them that the full text is posted outside the room (p.4-5).  They have to go outside of the room, look at the full paragraphs, and find the missing sentence, and then write it down on their answer sheet.  Standard running dictation rules apply (i.e. one student can run outside to look at the text, but they can't write anything.  They have to memorize the sentence, and run back and dictate it to their partner).  The first pair to write down all 9 missing sentences is the winner.

...but the running dictation part is optional.

In fact, another way to continue the activity would be to provide students a list of the missing sentences, and students have to decide which sentence goes in which paragraph. 

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Monday, April 15, 2024

I was searching the Internet for short plays or dramas suitable for the ESL classroom, and I found this website:

The index of plays isn't actually located until halfway down the site, so scroll all the way down until you see:
Reader's Theater Scripts and Teacher's Guides

Now, to be honest, I haven't actually used any of these plays in my classroom yet.  But I may use them in the future, and so I wanted to make this blogpost to remind myself.
I'm also adding this website to my Interesting Input plus Production Prompts index.  (The input is reading the plays.  The production would be acting out the play--or at least reading it aloud in groups.)
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Feelings: Specific Vocabulary Sets

(Specific Vocabulary Sets)

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Abandoned: The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course by Marianne Celce-Murcia and Diane Larsen-Freeman [Second Edition]

Started: July 12, 2020





June 20, 2021 The Grammar Book p.1-6
June 27, 2021 The Grammar Book p.6-40
July 4, 2021 The Grammar Book p.40-82
July 11, 2021 The Grammar Book p.82-106
July 18, 2021 The Grammar Book p.106-122
July 25, 2021 The Grammar Book p.122-138
August 1, 2021 The Grammar Book p.138-144
August 8, 2021 The Grammar Book p.144-154
August 15, 2021 The Grammar Book p.154-160
August 22, 2021 The Grammar Book p.160-176
August 29, 2021 The Grammar Book p.176-192
September 5, 2021 The Grammar Book p.192-202
October 17, 2021 The Grammar Book p.202-208
October 24, 20201 The Grammar Book p.208-214
October 31, 2021 The Grammar Book p.214-218
November 7, 2021 The Grammar Book p.218-222
November 14, 2021 The Grammar Book p.222-226
November 21, 2021 The Grammar Book p.226-230
November 28, 2021 The Grammar Book p.230-234
December 5, 2021 The Grammar Book p.234-238
December 12, 2021 The Grammar Book p.238-242
December 19, 2021 The Grammar Book p.242-252
December 26, 2021 The Grammar Book p.252-256
January 9, 2022 The Grammar Book p.256-258
January 16, 2022 The Grammar Book p.258-266
January 23, 2022 The Grammar Book p.266-268 
January 30, 2022 The Grammar Book p.268-276
February 6, 2022 The Grammar Book p.276-278
February 13, 2022 The Grammar Book p.278-280 
February 20, 2022 The Grammar Book p.280-290
February 27, 2022 The Grammar Book p.290-302
March 6, 2022 The Grammar Book p.302-304
March 13, 2022 The Grammar Book p.304-306
March 20, 2022 The Grammar Book p.306-308
March 27, 2022 The Grammar Book p.308-310
April 3, 2022 The Grammar Book p.310-312
April 10, 2022 The Grammar Book p.312-314
July 24, 2022 The Grammar Book p.314-316
July 31, 2022 The Grammar Book p.316-318

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Sunday, April 14, 2024



 

Books (155 pages this week--the goal is 200 pages)
The Epic of Gilgamesh p.176-221 (45 pages) (finished) (reviewed)
2nd Samuel p.330-338 (2nd Samuel 2-9) (From The Bible) (8 pages)
Comic Books (Comic Books don't count towards weekly page counts)
Revolutions Season 10: The Russian Revolution by Mike Duncan From: the beginning To: 10.19- Nicky and Alix
From:  Section 2, Unit 11, Level 1, Lesson 3 To: Section 2, Unit 11, Level 4, Lesson 3 (My Duolingo profile is here.  Here is the quizlet I use to practice all of the vocabulary I've learned in Duolingo.  I had to create a second one once I got to 2000 words.  Second quizlet here.  And here is a smaller quizlet I use to consolidate the new or difficult vocabulary.)

Videos from this week:

For more information about what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE.
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Started: Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes by Carl Barks
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