Four Strands – Eight ToolsInspiring Innovation

Presentation by Sheri Rhodes for ATESL Inspiring Voices 2010http://srhodes.wikispaces.com/

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Pecha-Kucha (peh-CHAKH-cha)

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PART ONE

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Reading

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Reading Tool 1:

Gallery

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2686418/Ice_Time

Pre-reading

Post Reading

Vocabulary development

• List of thematic words• List of verbs• List of adjectives• List of words with similar features– Alphabet– Morphology– Word families– Pairs of words (homonyms, antonyms etc)

WorksheetExercise 1: Ask your partners the following question about his/her best friend. Make sure to listen carefully to what your partner has to say.

• Is your friend usually in a good mood?• Is it important for your friend to be successful in whatever he/she does?• Does your friend notice your feelings?• Does you friend often give presents, or pay for lunch or a coffee?• Does your friend work hard?• Does your friend become angry or annoyed if he/she has to wait for something or someone?• Can you trust your friend with a secret?• Does your friend listen well when you are speaking?• Does your friend keep his/her feelings to him/herself?• Is your friend usually not worried by things, no matter what happens?• Does your friend think the future will be good?• Does your friend often change their opinion about things?• Does your friend often postpone things he/she has to do?• Is your friend happy one moment and then sad the next?• Does your friend like to be with people?

From http://esl.about.com/od/vocabularylessonplans/a/characteradj.htmCreated by Kenneth Beare

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Reading Tool 2:

• Successful readers reported that they used various strategies such as reading in broad phrases, skipping inessential words, guessing from context, and continuing to read the text even when they encountered a term that they didn't know (Wallace 2001).

• "a good reader does between 85-95% of his reading time fixating...5-15% percent moving from fixation to fixation. A poor reader spends more time moving and less time fixating. Why? Because a good reader makes each fixation work better for him. ...the poor reader fixates on every single word, sometimes on every syllable or every letter. To become a good reader, the goal for using the eyes well is obvious: try to read two or three words at a glance"(Klaeser 1977).

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Browning-TimedReading.html

• As the student practices timed reading and is exposed to various language learning elements, as mentioned above, they become more automatic in their response due to the holistic experience. Timed reading forces the re-occurrence of certain, frequent vocabulary to be internalized, which ultimately aids in the speed and comprehension of reading materials.

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READING TOOLS

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Cue Prompter

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