Read Beyond the Lines:
Tips to Foster
Independent & Active Readers
You are the only expert
to your students!
Dream Big!
• Independent and
Motivated Learners
But How?
•How much we teach
=
• How much they learn?
What is your philosophy?
•學而時習之
不亦悅乎?
• It Is a Pleasure to __________ Frequently While
Learning.
Thinking Time!
•Learning a Foreign
Language is like …
•Knowledge or Skills?
Learning a language is like…
Learning English in an EFL Environment
(e.g.Taiwan) is like…
To create a pool in my class…
What matters most in my class…
•Motivation
Involvement
Independence
•What do we mean by
“learning”?
I talk. They Sleep!
Can’t we try something different?
From Learners to Users
Use it to Keep it!
Keep Them Busy
Right from the Start
• Start the class like a fire!
• Warm-Up:
• A Proverb A Day
• A Riddle A Day
• A Tongue Twister A day
• A Quote a Day
• A Joke A Day
• A Mini-Speech A Day
• A News Headline A Day
• Song A Week…
A Riddle a Day
What have four fingers and a
thumb, but no flesh, bones,
or blood?
Gloves
A Proverb A Day
• Turn Proverbs into Plays
~A Proverb A Day~
• On a regular basis?
• Why not stop and smell the
roses?
• 1. Haste makes Waste.
• 2. Everyman has his price.
• 3. Don’t put all the eggs in one basket.
• 4. Laughter is the best medicine.
• 5. Handsome is that handsome does.
A Joke A Day
• A birthday present that goes from 0 to 200 in
5 seconds
A Scale
1 pound = 0.45 Kg
A Joke A Day
A Scale
1 pound = 0.45 Kg
A Tongue Twister A Day
Clean clams crammed
in clean cans.
A Tongue Twister A Day
She sells sea shells
on the sea shore,
but the sea shells she sells
are not the real sea shells.
A Quote a Day
• Students take turns sharing a quote every day!
• Procedures:
• Review the last three quotes!
• Introduce the new one!
• Tell us why this one!
• Examples
How to Find a Quote
• 1. Google: Quote
• 2. By Topics: Learning, Friendship, Success,
Life, Knowledge, failure, family, love, humor,
money, witty or biting quotes…
• 3. By Author: Mark Twain, Einstein, Churchill,
Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin….
Today’s Quote
• Winners never
quit; quitters
never win.
~ Vince Lombardi
(Famous American
Football Coach )
•Do is the first part of
Done.
Whenever you fall,
pick something up.
~ Oswald Avery.
(1877 –1955)
American Physician and
medical researcher
Great Wisdom in Simple Words
• Be the change you want to see in the world.
~ Gandhi
• We can do no great things, only small things
with great love. ~ Mother Teresa
• Alone we can do so little; together we can do
so much.
~ Helen Keller
Language Art: Parallelism
• The proud man counts newspaper clippings, the
humble man his blessings.
•
~ Fulton J. Sheen Bishop
• Time is what we want most, but what we use
worst.
~ William Penn
• "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest
of the world walks out."
•
-Walter Winchell
Great Wisdom in Simple Words
• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
~ Golda Meir
• People are lonely because they build walls instead of
bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton
• The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work
if it is not open.
~Frank Zappa
•
Pun: Double Meaning
• “Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot
necessarily be counted.
•
~Albert Einstein
Witty and Biting Quotes
• Borrow money from pessimists; they don't
expect it back.
• War does not determine who is right –
• Only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell.
•
• Politicians and diapers should both be
changed regularly and for the same reason." Ronald Reagan.
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a
lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will
Rogers
• People will accept your idea much more
readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said
it first. ~David H. Comins
Quotes by Variation
•
•
•
•
By Author
Week for Mark Twain
Week for Winston Churchill
Week for Abraham Lincoln….
• By Subject
• A Month for Witty Quotes
• A Week for Quotes on failure/ $ / Learning /
Friendship….
Level-Up Challenges
• A Mini-Speech A Day
• Source of Inspiration:
• Rule of Thumb:
Short and Sweet
Show and Tell
Variations of Passion Talk:
• Talent Talk
• Dream Talk
• Idol Talk
• My Favorite … Talk
• A Token of Memory Talk
• Lie-to-Me Talk
• …
A Headline A Day
• Did Canadian comedian Tom Green invent
planking in the early 90s?
When it comes to reading…
Why Read beyond the Lines?
• It all began with Nightmares like these….
Looking for inspirations!
Question: Is Reading for them
the best way to teach reading?
Inspiration from…
Goals of Reading Training
• How to Help Your Students
Become Active Readers
• Read on Their Own
Tips on Reading Training
• Select a Suitable Text to Start the training!
• Make Reading a Guessing/Hunting Game!
• Give them a purpose to read! A Task to Achieve!
• Give them Questions! Don’t feed them Answers.
The best thing for reading training
Never stop asking questions!
Make Reading a Guessing Game!
Extra Credits!
First, Read for Gist!
“Do you know what you are reading?”
A Birdeye View/A Whole Picture!
Best Help: Graphic Organizers!
Mind Map/Graphic Organizers
Visualize the Ideas!
Timeline: Time Sequence
Timeline: Time Sequence
Timeline: Time Sequence
Reading Samples:
1. Steven Spielberg
2. Maple Syrup
3. Story
Visualize the Structure of Expository
Writing
• Claim, and Support
Claim: Topic Sentence
Support:
Supporting Sentences
Basic Structure of Expository Writing
• Claim and Support
Claim: Topic Sentence (main idea)
Support
Facts / Reasons / Explanations
(supporting details)
Intro: Main idea
Paragraph 1:
Topic Sentence:
Supporting details
Paragraph 3:
Paragraph 2:
Topic Sentence:
Topic Sentence:
Supporting details
Supporting details
Examples:
1. Can Animals Think?
2. Is Your Diet Saving the Earth?
Book 2 Unit 3 Is Your Diet Saving the Earth?
Introduction:
Is your diet saving the
Earth?
Paragraph 2:
Paragraph 3:
Paragraph 4:
Eating seasonal foods
We can choose eat more
vegetables and less meat.
Eating Local Foods
rather than Imported
ones
Explanations:
Examples:
Explanation:
Production of Meat
California Grapes,
Facts, Charts, Figures
Chili Fuji Apples
It takes more to grow
and store foods that are
out of season.
Flow Chart
Persuasion Tree
Goal-Reason Web
Benefits of Reading Training With MM
• They got to read on their own!
• Higher Order Thinking Training:
Organization/Structure
Benefits of Reading Training With MM
• Increased Learning Autonomy &
• Reading Independence
• More Time for Extra/Extension activities
• Pinpoint only the selected patterns/usage.
•I touch the future.
I teach.
• by Christa McAuliffe
Thanks for your lovely attention
and participation!