Integrated Skills in the Communicative Classroom, Focus on Reading

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Integrated Skills in the Communicative Classroom,
Focus on Reading

• Sarah Klinghammer,Leslie Opp-Beckman
• University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

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Introduction

• 5 Principles Revisited
• Literacy-rich Environment
• Student Needs
• Genres
• Sub-skills (strategies)
• Ideas for Activities

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5 Principles Revisited

• Function (purpose for language)
• Content
• Focus on Form (skill areas)
• Learning and Teaching Strategies
• Cooperative Learning

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Genres

• Academic (content-based)
• Stories (mysteries, folk)
• Procedures (e.g. Language Experience Approach)
• High-interest news
• Connecting worldwide

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Student Needs

• Age-appropriate
• Skill level / challenging
• Individual interests
• Connect to real-life experiences
• Extensive intensive reading

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Sub-skills(Reading Strategies)

• Background knowledge
• Vocabulary support
• Skimming, scanning
• Prediction (e.g. scaffolding)
• Connecting to other skills

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Activities, Idea 1Authentic Materials

• Read the signs in the picture below. What do they
  mean?
• Read the added text.
• Draw a picture to add
• that information to the picture, also.

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• When trying to get out of being issued a ticket,
  most drivers tell police officers they missed the
  sign.
• 17 cry and 11 say they feel sick.

(Draw your picture here.)
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Activities, Idea 2Interactive Reading

• Dream interpretation
• Wacky web tales
• Action mazes

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Activities, Idea 3Journals

• Reading writing
• Teacher-student peer-peer
• Assigned vs. free topics
• Linked with personal life

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Activities, Idea 4Readers Theater

• Reading (writing ) drama
• Group work
• Minimal props
• Stories with a twist

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Wrapping Up

• Reading environment
• Stimulating desire to read
• Fostering fluency
• Relating to real life
• Opening new worlds

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Integrated Skills in the Communicative Classroom,
Focus on Reading

• Sarah Klinghammer,Leslie Opp-Beckman
• University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon