Better Reading, Better English

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Excellent English

• Better Reading, Better English

Prof. P.C. Wong Committee on Home-School
Cooperation Department of Information
Engineering Emailpcwong_at_school.hk
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Outline

• Why?
• How?
• What?

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About me

• I grew up in Shek Kip Mei
• HKCEED, HKALE
• Graduated from CUHK (Electronics Engineering)
• From Kindergarten to PhD
• Over 25 years of studying English
• I am still not confident in English reading,
  listening, speaking and writing.

Until 1990!
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About my son

• He studied in a local primary school.
• We didnt have a Filipino maid.
• My wife and I didnt talk to him in English.
• He hadnt attend any English oral classes.
• In P5, he finished the whole Harry Potter series.
• He didnt have foreign English accent.
• In F2 , he wrote a story of over 10,000 words.
• He got 5 in HKCEE English.

And
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How?

• I read English stories with him for half-an-hour
  every night, for about 2 years.
• Starting with simple ones, then gradually moved
  up the levels.
• I learnt with him reading strategies - how to
  read words, phrases, and sentences.
• Most importantly - I discovered that Reading is
  the KEY to success in learning English.

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A Secondary School

• They launched program last September.
• F.1 students said
• English was the mostinteresting subject.
• They were not afraidof reading English books
  any more.

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Outline

• Why?
• How?
• What?

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Reading Strategies
3R Reading Scheme
Read Aloud(???) Read Apart(???) Read Again(???)
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Read Aloud (???)

• When you read, you listen, and you develop your
  speaking and hearing channels..
• You become your 24-hour English teacher
• You read and listen to authentic English content
• Your practice English at your own pace

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Read Apart (???)

• We can understand better.
• We can identify and reuse the components.

flabbergast
flab-ber-gast
John and Jenny will meet a good friend in Tuen
Munon Monday.
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Read Again (???)

• This is the first time Mary has driven a car
  since she got her driver's license.
• First time get an idea.
• Second time get the meaning.
• More times get the use of language.

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Testing your memory

• This is ____ third time you have asked me this
  question. (a, an, the)
• This is the second time he ______ (call) for
  help.
• This is the first time he has read a book since
  he ______ (graduate) from the university.

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Outline

• Why?
• How?
• What?

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Excellent English
Educational ???
I READ
Interesting ???
Readability ???
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Interesting and Authentic Literature
Page
Sentence
Paragraph
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Reading Levels
Level 6
Level 3
Class
Self
Class
Self
Level 5
Level 2
Class
Self
Class
Self
Level 1
Level 4
Class
Self
Class
Self
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Excellent Reading
Boxes of graded books for class reading
More library books for step-by-step reading
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Question
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