1. How to Teach a RAZ Reading Class to Chinese Students

2. About Class Procedures
CONTENTS
Chinese Students’ English Standards
Preparations Before Class
About Class Procedures

3. like past tense. 3) Make a lot of grammar mistakes
Level
Students’ Ages
Students’ Characteristics, Beginning English Standards and Teaching Tips
AA Level
4-6
1) Have learnt most of letters in the alphabet but might mix up some of the similar letters. 2) Interested in things around them or related to them(for instance: body parts ,colors, family members, food, pets, transportations). 3) Not able to make or understand long sentences. 4) Couldn’t use a mouse well. 5) Easily distracted and couldn’t stay attentive for a long time.
Teaching Tips: Demonstrate things you want students to do or say；Use body language and visual aids; Simplify your sentences and lower your talking speed; Encourage students to speak out key vocabulary words and repeat simple sentence; Frequently give students rewards and encouragements.
B Level
5-7
1) Familiar with the alphabet and some simple nouns and verbs. 2) Familiar with some simple sentence structures like: I can__ ; I go to __; I see__; 3) Could use a mouse but couldn’t draw well with it. 4) Could focus on things they are interested in for a relatively longer time but are still easily distracted by things. 5) Developing a correct reading order but need to point at individual words while reading.
Teaching Tips: Talk at a lower speed and encourage students to talk in full sentence ; Give students simple tasks to accompalish; Demonstrate a lot with high energy.
D Level
7-8
1) Familiar with most of high frequency words in Kintergarten and are able to make few long sentences with these HFW. (For example: I see a bird fly in the sky; I can go to school by bus ; My favorite sport is basketball). 2) Have mastered lots of basic and useful vocabulary words. 3) Are able to have simple conversations with teachers but constantly make grammar mistakes. 4) Could handle a mouse well.
Teaching Tips: Try to use some smart words while talking but demonstrate a lot when they couldn’t understand; Gve students opportunities to compete with each other in a friendly environment; Correct necessary grammar mistakes.
G Level
8-10
1) Have grasped a large amount of vocabulary and are able to talk in full sentences. 2) Have learnt some easy grammars
like past tense. 3) Make a lot of grammar mistakes
Teaching Tips: Focus more on comprehension skills and strategies while teaching; Have real conversations with students; Correct their grammar mistakes; Talk at a normal speed

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High-Frequency Words
I like me can see am
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we go come are you in
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5. AA level
B level
D level
G level

6. Preparations Before Class
Read the teaching plan
Write your own teaching plan
Check all the materials in classroom

7. TIME
STAGE
PROCEDURE
SKILL FOCUS
TEACHER TALK
ADDITIONAL NOTES
WARM UP & INTRODUCTION
PICTURE WALK/
GUIDED READING
INDEPENDENT READING
ACTIVITY ONE
ACTIVITY TWO
WRAP UP

8. TIME
STAGE
PROCEDURE
SKILL FOCUS
TEACHER TALK
ADDITIONAL NOTES
WARM UP & INTRODUCTION
PICTURE WALK/
GUIDED READING
INDEPENDENT READING
ACTIVITY ONE
ACTIVITY TWO
WRAP UP

9. Teacher’s Daily Lesson Plan
TEACHER_____________ CLASS NUMBER______ DATE____
COURSE AND LEVEL _____ LESSON TITLE______
LESSON OBJECTIVES___________________________
STAGE & Duration
PROCEDURE
TEACHER TALK
ADDITIONAL NOTES
WARM UP & INTRODUCTION
PICTURE WALK/
GUIDED READING
INDEPENDENT READING
ACTIVITY ONE
ACTIVITY TWO
WRAP UP
TIME
STAGE
PROCEDURE
SKILL FOCUS
TEACHER TALK
ADDITIONAL NOTES
WARM UP & INTRODUCTION
PICTURE WALK/
GUIDED READING
INDEPENDENT READING
ACTIVITY ONE
ACTIVITY TWO
WRAP UP

10. 1.Warm-up
AA Level
B Level
D Level
G Level

11. 2.Reading 1.Talk about the book cover and the book’s name.
2.Talk about the picture and key vocabulary words, play audio, have students read after the audio .
3. Independent reading : Students read the book with teacher’s help.
1.Talk about the book cover and the book’s name, writer and illustrator . Predict what the book is about.
2.Talk about the picture , key vocabulary words and sentences, play audio, ( have students read after the audio ).
3. Independent reading: Students read the book or parts of the book with teacher’s help.

12. 4. After Class Activities