While-reading activities
Children work in pairs. Students
practice The text
They read the text skimming. They need
silently in order to find to read quickly in
a title for the text. Each order to get the gist as
pair announces the title the activity is timed
they have given to the
text and tries to justify
their choice. Teacher
accepts any relevant
titles and helps with
justification
Task
2
5 min
Task
3
5 min
Children try to find Students skim the text The text
answers to their own in order to get a
question which were general idea.
written on the board.
There are also some
questions the teacher
has prepared in case
they are not included
by
the
students.
Questions are answered
orally and different
answers are either
justified or corrected
Task
4
5 min
Students try to find on
the map the Amazon
river and say a few
words about it.
It is important for The text, a map
students to use the the world.
knowledge they get
from the text for a
communicative
purpose.
Task
5
5 min
Students read the text
carefully in order to
find cohesive devices
and anaphoric relations.
It is important that The text
students learn how
cohesion
is
established in the text.
As pairs are of
mixed
ability
students
the
more competent
ones
can
scaffold the ones
who need help.
Weak students
can take the role
of the group
announcer
It is important to
stress that they
need to read
quickly for an
overall
understanding
and not to apply
a word by word
approach.
Most pronouns
refer to the same
noun.
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