Teaching Reading Workshop
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Every Monday for six weeks, English Language Fellow John Mark King hosted a 90-minute workshop for English teachers on teaching effective reading strategies to non-native speakers of English.
The workshop first introduced participants to the nature of reading and the importance of helping their students to develop their own effective reading strategies in English. In subsequent weeks, the workshop focused on ways to teach several pre- during- and post-reading strategies including: 1) activating background knowledge, 2) making and confirming predictions about a text, 3) making inferential judgments about a text and 4) evaluating the motives of the author and the overall value of a text.
In addition, teachers were shown ways to encourage student-driven vocabulary development strategies that can be used at all stages of the reading process.
The workshop also introduced teachers to many forms of alternative reading assessment such as portfolios, peer assessment and self assessment as well as reviewing the many types of traditional assessment such as multiple-choice and cloze tests and their place in the reading classroom.
When the teachers’ workshop finished, the ELF compiled in electronic format all of the materials developed and used in each lesson and has made them available to all interested teachers. The materials include outlines of each workshop, ready-made worksheets for students, sample student assessment sheets and several relevant English Teaching Forum articles. Hard copies of the workshop materials will also be published and made available for sale at cost at the POET office.
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