Lesson notes 31/10/13

READING A TEXT FOR COMPREHESION

Good Readers: broad semantic chunks	Bad Readers: specific details
Using his/her general knowledge	Limited to the lines
Use the previous context	Abuse using dictionary (Max.1-2 words in each page)
Use morphological relationships (Ex: hairdo)	Traducing word by word
Fillers	Not facing and modifying his/her hypothesis
Use the cognates	Stop at unknown words
Guessing skills	Read all words equal in importance
Observing
Broad view

Goals: reading for comprehension

1. Read though-not stopping-

2. Mark at one minute (Main idea on margin)

3. Mark-time going back-

4. Mark times using the dictionary

Conclusions

·         Did you read or translate?

·         How did you feel at the beginning?

Actividad guiada para mejorar la comprensión lectora trabajada en clase con el capítulo ``Dance of the happy shades´´ de Alice Munro:

Step One: The class is divided in pairs.

Step Two: each pair has two excerpts of the text.

Step Three: the first one starts to read in silence while the other one is following his reading and marking when he comes back, when he finishes at the first minute and the words that he looks for in the dictionary.

Step Four: repeat the process but the second reader.

Step Five: evaluate the reading comprehension with the previous explication in the box given before.