Activities For Graded Readers And Extensive Reading In The EFL Classroom
Louanne Piccolo is a native French speaker who is also an English language teacher. She writes an article in Cambridge press about what should teachers do in extensive reading activity. She mentions that teacher should guiding their student in choosing the book they will read according to the students’ level. She clearly explains that learners will read large quantities of texts which they do for pleasure and students should be able to read quickly without relying on a dictionary. The idea is that the students can read as easy and enjoyable as they can in their mother tongue. Extensive reading promotes fluency, reinforces vocabulary and teaches new words in context. Moreover, it has nothing to do with decoding a text, and it isn’t meant to repeat comprehensive reading.
Contrary to popular belief, she stated that we can judge a book by its cover. Ask the students to describe what they think the book is about, based on the cover. Then, make them vote on what they think is the most likely story they’ll read inside. The teacher can also give the students information on a certain character. Encourage the students to add some strange information – the stranger the better – to their character descriptions. Then, get them to write down everything that they have learned from each other. Finally, get them to vote on what they think to be true or false. Whilst reading the book, get them to check for the truth. Activities after reading teacher can ask the students to draw posters or cartoon strips of the story. They can either orally describe what is happening in their poster, or they can draw speech bubbles in their cartoon strip that show the characters speaking. Mini plays are also useful for checking how much a learner has understood of the story. Divide the class into groups and ask each group to act out a chapter. Lastly, the teacher can make flashcards with the titles of each chapter, or with a sentence describing the main idea in a chapter. Get the students to put them in the correct order. Encourage your learners to swap their flashcards with each other.
Piccolo, L. (2017, August 14). Activities For Graded Readers And Extensive Reading In The EFL Classroom. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from: http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2017/08/14/activities-for-graded-readers-and-extensive-reading-in-the-efl-classroom/
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