LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 16
iii. Let’s Read! / Let’s Read and Act!
All reading passages have a list of reading or discussion questions in the Teacher’s Guide to
ensure all the students have an opportunity to understand what was read and to take part in
the class discussion on the text. All passages are recorded and can be played from
www.eadventure.co.il/LFO.
Each text is slightly different, but all require guided reading of some nature. It’s very important
that the reading be done in a way that includes all the students in the class. Heterogeneous
classes include students at a variety of levels, so it’s important that they all get a chance to
participate in the reading.
We’ve divided up each text for you through the questions you can ask. You can read each
passage one part at a time or as a whole. We suggest long texts be divided into smaller parts
while shorter texts can be read as a whole. In general, when approaching a text, it’s always
better to enable the students to read it quietly on their own and then have them discuss it.
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Have the students read a small section (you tell them how much to read) and ask them
a leading question for which they have to find the answer in the lines they are reading.
This gives them a reason to read, a purpose. It also makes for more focused reading.
You’ve been given questions for nearly every line in the text.
Reading small chunks each time enables all the students to read and to participate.
Give them a couple of minutes to read 2-3 lines.
When they are finished, have the students answer the question you asked at the
beginning. If it’s an easy question, make sure one of the weaker learners is asked to
answer it.
Then continue asking questions about that section of text, making sure it’s completely
understood by all.
As you are asking questions, you can have the students read out the sentences where
they found the answers. This fulfills the need to read aloud and you get a chance to
hear intonation, pronunciation and reading.
Repeat this process until you’ve gone through the entire text.
At the end, you can read the entire passage aloud so they’ll all hear the correct
pronunciation and intonation. This also ties up all the bits and pieces nicely.
Alternatively, you can read the entire passage before starting the questions and
answers.
Other approaches:
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You can have the students read the entire passage and then discuss it. This takes much
longer to read and many of the students can’t keep up so they give up quickly. It’s
advisable to use this technique only with short texts.
You read out the entire text and then discuss it with the class. This ensures they listen
and follow while you read.
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