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Read Beyond the Lines: Tips to Foster
Independent & Active Readers
You are the only expert to your students!
Dream Big!• Independent and Motivated Learners
But How?
•How much we teach=
• How much they learn?
What is your philosophy?
•學而時習習之 不亦悅乎 ?
• It Is a Pleasure to __________ Frequently While Learning.
Thinking Time!
•Learning a Foreign Language is like …
•Knowledge or Skills?
Learning a language is like…
Learning English in an EFL Environment (e.g.Taiwan) is like…
To create a pool in my class…
What matters most in my class…
•Motivation Involvement
Independence
•What do we mean by “learning”?
I talk. They Sleep!
Can’t we try something different?
From Learners to Users
Use it to Keep it!
Keep Them Busy Right from the Start
• Start the class like a fire!
• Warm-Up:• A Proverb A Day • A Riddle A Day
• A Tongue Twister A day• A Quote a Day• A Joke A Day
• A Mini-Speech A Day• A News Headline A Day
• Song A Week…
A Riddle a Day
Gloves
What have four fingers and a thumb, but no flesh, bones, or
blood?
A Proverb A DayA Proverb A Day
• Turn Proverbs into Plays
~A Proverb A Day~
• On a regular basis?• Why not stop and smell
the roses?
• 1. Haste makes Waste.
• 2. Everyman has his price.
• 3. Don’t put all the eggs in one basket.
• 4. Laughter is the best medicine.
• 5. Handsome is that handsome does.
A Joke A Day• A birthday present that goes from 0 to 200 in
5 seconds
A Scale1 pound = 0.45 Kg
A Joke A Day
A Scale1 pound = 0.45 Kg
Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
A Tongue Twister A Day
She sells sea shells on the sea shore,
but the sea shells she sells are not the real sea shells.
A Tongue Twister A Day
A Quote a Day
• Students take turns sharing a quote every day!
• Procedures:• Review the last three quotes!
• Introduce the new one!• Tell us why this one!
• Examples
How to Find a Quote• 1. Google: Quote
• 2. By Topics: Learning, Friendship, Success, Life, Knowledge, failure, family, love, humor, money, witty or biting quotes…
• 3. By Author: Mark Twain, Einstein, Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin….
Today’s Quote
• Winners never quit; quitters never win.
~ Vince Lombardi
(Famous American Football Coach )
•Do is the first part of Done.
Whenever you fall,
pick something up.
~ Oswald Avery.(1877 –1955)
American Physician and medical researcher
• Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Gandhi
• We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa
• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller
Great Wisdom in Simple Words
• The proud man counts newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
• ~ Fulton J. Sheen Bishop
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ~ William Penn
• "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
• -Walter Winchell
Language Art: Parallelism
Great Wisdom in Simple Words
• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Golda Meir
• People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton
• The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. ~Frank Zappa
• Pun: Double Meaning
• “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
• ~Albert Einstein
Witty and Biting Quotes
• Borrow money from pessimists; they don't expect it back.
• War does not determine who is right – • Only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell.• • Politicians and diapers should both be changed
regularly and for the same reason." - Ronald Reagan.•
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
• People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. ~David H. Comins
Quotes by Variation• By Author• Week for Mark Twain• Week for Winston Churchill • Week for Abraham Lincoln….
• By Subject• A Month for Witty Quotes• A Week for Quotes on failure/ $ / Learning /
Friendship….
Level-Up Challenges
• A Mini-Speech A Day
• Source of Inspiration:
• Rule of Thumb:
Short and SweetShow and Tell
Variations of Passion Talk:
• Talent Talk• Dream Talk
• Idol Talk• My Favorite … Talk
• A Token of Memory Talk• Lie-to-Me Talk
• …
A Headline A Day
• Did Canadian comedian Tom Green invent planking in the early 90s?
When it comes to reading…
Why Read beyond the Lines?
• It all began with Nightmares like these….
Question: Is Reading for them the best way to teach reading?
Inspiration from…
Looking for inspirations!
Goals of Reading Training
• How to Help Your Students Become Active Readers• Read on Their Own
Tips on Reading TrainingTips on Reading Training
• Select a Suitable Text to Start the training!
• Make Reading a Guessing/Hunting Game!
• Give them a purpose to read! A Task to Achieve!
• Give them Questions! Don’t feed them Answers.
The best thing for reading training
Never stop asking questions!Make Reading a Guessing Game!
Extra Credits!
First, Read for Gist!
“Do you know what you are reading?”
A Birdeye View/A Whole Picture!
Best Help: Graphic Organizers!
Mind Map/Graphic Organizers
Visualize the Ideas!
Timeline: Time Sequence
Timeline: Time Sequence
Timeline: Time Sequence
Reading Samples:
1. Steven Spielberg2. Maple Syrup
3. Story
Visualize the Structure of Expository Writing
• Claim, and Support
• Claim and Support
Basic Structure of Expository Writing
Claim: Topic Sentence (main idea)
SupportFacts / Reasons / Explanations
(supporting details)
Examples:
1. Can Animals Think?2. Is Your Diet Saving the Earth?
Book 2 Unit 3 Is Your Diet Saving the Earth?
Flow Chart
Persuasion Tree
Goal-Reason Web
Benefits of Reading Training With MM
• They got to read on their own!• Higher Order Thinking Training: Organization/Structure
Benefits of Reading Training With MM
• Increased Learning Autonomy &• Reading Independence
• More Time for Extra/Extension activities
• Pinpoint only the selected patterns/usage.
• I touch the future. I teach.
• by Christa McAuliffe
Thanks for your lovely attention and participation!