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TESOL – March 2010
Amber Warren & Natalia WardESL Teachers, Knox County Schools
Background
Reading Research
Implementing the Program
In class (Thematic Units)
After school (Book Club)
Extensive Reading
Large quantityVariety of topics
and genres
Familiarity with various kinds of
texts and purposes
Is Extensive Reading Enough?
Narrow reading, or reading in one
genre, content area, or author, provides
developing readers with “familiar
background knowledge that helps make
texts more comprehensible.”
-- Cho, Ahn, & Krashen, 2005, p. 58
Improving Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Spacing
Multiple
Exposures
Vocabulary
Recycling
A Comparison…
Extensive Reading
Grecian Religion
Grecian Society
Grecian
Geography
Narrow Reading
Ancient Greece
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Mesopotamia
Grecian Government
Intensive Reading
Extensive Reading
Narrow Reading
How Can Narrow Reading
be Implemented?
Narrow Reading Implementation
In-Class
Thematic Units
After School
ESL Book Club
Four Easy Steps
1. Select Theme
Thematic Units
Westward Expansion
Dinosaurs and Fossils
Ancient Greece
Ancient Egypt
Energy Resources
Westward Expansion
American Experience
Searching for Gold
Oregon Trail
Mexican Experience
They Came Around the
Horn
Native American
Experience
Trail of Tears
Cherokee
Four Easy Steps
1. Select Theme
2. Select Books
Four Easy Steps
1. Select Theme
2. Select Books
3. Select Reading and Vocabulary Activities
Student Favorites
Word wall
Mind-Reader
Hot Seat
Student glossary
Journaling
Glossary
Journaling
Four Easy Steps
1. Select Theme
2. Select Books
3. Select Reading and Vocabulary Activities
4. Execution
In-Class After School
Students’ Preconceptions
“Social studies is too hard. It’s kind of
boring.”
“Where is the Greece?”
“Dinosaurs eat persons.”
“All the dinosaurs was big.”
Student Reactions
“I like the word wall. The games are fun
with the wall.”
“It is fun to make the pictures for my
words.”
“I like Ancient Greece. There was lots of
soldiers and fights.”
Student Reactions Cont.
“Learning about Egypt was awesome. I like
stuff about mummies.”
“Talking about the life in the Wild West was
cool. They had no school and you could play
all day.”
“Mummies are really scary because the
brains come out of the nose.”
Q&A
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