Teaching English Through Stories. Share your ideas! Why do young learners like stories ? How does reading stories help with English learning ?

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Teaching English Through Stories

Share your ideas! Why do young learners like stories ? How does reading stories help with English learning ?

Teaching with stories

10 Reasons to use stories in the English Classroom Wonderful tool for practising listening skills Good fun Put students’ imagination to work Develop fantasy Develop human feelings (happiness/understanding/empathy/sadness/pity) Connect the present with the past and the future Release tension Cooperative Increases self-esteem Enriching experience

General reading skills 1.Skimming: ability to get the main idea of the text regardless of the details 2.Scanning: ability to extract a specific piece of information or details from a passage regardless of the main ideas 3.Drawing inferences: ability to draw conclusions that are not directly stated in the text 4.Recognizing coherence: ability to figure out the logic sequencing of different parts of a text 5.Guessing meaning of unfamiliar words: ability to guess the meaning of new vocabulary based on contextual clues 6.Tolerating ambiguity: ability to understand the overall

Stages of teaching readers Pre- reading While- reading Post- reading

Pre-reading stage What do you think of this question as a pre-reading activity ? What happened in the last chapter?

Pre-reading stage These are some examples of pre-reading tasks: – The teacher talks about the book cover with students, guiding them with a set of prediction questions about the story content. – Students look at the pictures included in the reader and predict what will happen based on the pictures and on the previous incidents. – The teacher puts two or more possibilities of upcoming story incidents on the blackboard and students vote for each

While-reading stage Examples of while-reading tasks: Sequencing events. Choosing true or false. Completing a summary. Choosing titles for paragraphs. Making character sketches. Using graphic organizers.

Post-reading stage Post-reading tasks include the following: Book report. Questions. Cognitive strategies

Group activity In your group, choose a chapter from the reader and plan it through one of the 3 stages to teach readers. One of the group members should come out and present it in front of the whole group.

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