Active reading through predictions
This clip concerns how learners read actively through making predictions. This class is Korean 201.
Reading material in English and Korean
PDF: Class Development
Background Information
Topic: Reading a story with unexpected plot twists
Goals of the activity
Students will be able to
- read, tell, and write a story
- read actively through making predictions
- use the polite and formal form of the past-tensed verbs correctly
Skill(s) in target: reading, speaking, and writing
Target grammar: the polite and formal form of the past-tensed verbs
Materials: 5 reading strips that are divided before the twists in the story, pictures for new vocabulary, power point presentation, the java scrip timer embedded in the power point presentation file
Sequence
1. Warming up: The teacher introduces the class goals on the blackboard. Next, the teacher elicits the topic by providing the first parts of four commonly used phrase and encouraging learners to come up with the second part, which is the topic.
2. Main reading activity
1) Step 1: First reading and underline the unfamiliar vocabulary (scanning)
Learners read the first strip and underline the new words
2) Step 2: Second reading and matching the new vocabulary in the story with the pictures as the context
Learners read the first strip again to look for the words depicted by the pictures
3) Step 3: Retelling the strip with the help of pictures
After they finish reading the first strip, they retell the strip with the help of the pictures
4) Step 4: Making predictions (What would happen next?)
Based on their reading comprehension, they make predictions about what would happen next
5) Step 5: Checking their previous predictions through reading the next strip and
Learners have the second strip and steps 1 through 5 are repeated until the last strip
6) Step 6: Retelling the whole story with the help
Learners retell the whole story using the key pictures
7) Step 7: Vocabulary review
Learners are divided into two groups and play a time-constrained game
8) Step 8: Explicit grammar teaching
Learners acquire the target grammar explicitly
3. Wrapping up: The teacher wraps up the class by checking the class goals on the blackboard.
* The reading material was modified from a children’s book, The Paper Bag Princess, which was written by Robert Munsch in 1980. For more information about this book, please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paper_Bag_Princess