Getting Ready to Read
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Contributor:
Simon Green
Resource type:
Lesson Plan
This PDF document is intended to encourage students to get involved with a text before being asked to comprehend, answer questions or translate. There is a master text for students and an annotated text for teachers. The theme of the text is Der Stundenplan but the method can be adapted to any text. The principle is for the teacher to read the text out loud in a variety of ways so that the students have to engage with the form of the text before going on to decode it, translate extracts or comprehend it. Once various patterns have been established the students are more ready to read the text in a more conventional way.
How it maps to the curriculum
- JC
- German
Strand: 1. Communicative Competence
Strand unit: Reading/ Lesen
Suggestions for use: Give each student a master text. Tell the students you are going to read the text out loud and when you stop they should call out the next word. There are eight different ways in which you read the text. (see annotated sheet on PDF file). Note reactions of students as you proceed - who is engaged / who finds it hard / who is struggling / who gets it? On completion of the eight readings, invite students who called out correctly to identify the patterns. After the process is complete, students are far more ready to read the text and answer questions.
Key Skills:
- Being Creative
- Literacy
Strand: Topics
Strand unit: School/Schule
- TY
- TY Core Subjects
Strand: A Language
Strand unit: German
