Read Beyond the Lines: Tips to Foster Independent & Active Readers.

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!