Written communication: Reading activities

Reading: active – mental skill that configurate one of our media to get information (it is a visual channel)

“Acquiring – learning reading” from a pshycolinguistic point of view reading is more a learning process (effect) than acquiring (cause). But from a practical point of view (because of the age our students start) we take advantage of the most benefits we can get from an early age. Even if it is a learning process we use many acquiring advantages.

How do we learn to read?

By definition reading is a mental-cognitive-active skill or ability. The cognitive stage of reading is very relevant and we have to be really careful to how to teach how to read to our kids. We have to make emphasis on the fact about how do we have to break down the paralization of the L1 strategies going to L2.

According to the CEFRLs and its operational descriptors there are 3 types of communicative language activities for reading:

The level of reading practice goes from letter and words recognition to text meaning, sentence and paragraph. The expectation goes from accuracy to fluency.

·         Reception:

-        Trazing and colour

-        Match words and pictures.

-        Read and draw.

-        Read and find.

-        Read and put the sentences in order.

-        Listen, read and find (grapho-phonic).

-        Jumble key sentence (read and organize)

-        Read and choose the picture.

-        Read, understand and answer.

·         Interaction: the child interacts with the information or with his classmate.

-        Read and colour the pencils.

-        Read and draw.

-        Opposites. Listen and complete the table.

-        Grapho-recognition.

-        Famous cities. Listen and read.

-        Morpho-recognition.

·         Mediation:

-        Read the text and draw.

-        Circle and write.

-        Senses. Write the sentences which describe each people.

-        Choose a picture and write.

-        Language and people. Read the text and complete the crossword.

-        News. Text structure-recognition.

-        Read the story.

-        The secret room. True or false?

-        In danger. Read and answer the question.

-        My world. Costumes. Read and answer the questions.