Session June 22

READING COMPREHENSION

Give a reading to our students must be with an specific purpose.  We need to identify the purpose and have it in mind to prepare the questions for reading comprehension.

Purpose of reading:

• Identify the main idea

• Get specific information

• Identify vocabulary

• Establish comparisons

• Apply prior knowledge 

• Give opinion

To realize the control the reading comprehension, we use questions to be answered by our students.  The most used types of questions are:

• Open Questions: Those kind of questions usualy start with "WH" (What/Why/How/Where/When) expression.  Example: What do you think about ... ?

• Closed Questions: / True/False Questions: Student have a 50% chance of guessing the correct answer,  that's why is important that they explain the reason for their chose. Those kind of question could be anwered with Yes or Not.  Example: Do you think that human kind is killing the planed? Yes___ No____ Why? ___________________.      Adding a Why question, you confirm that your student know the answer and he is not guessing. 

• Multiple Choise Questions: Generally, but not allways it has only one correct answer.  Toefl exam use those kind of questions and all the aswers are correct, but there is just one that fix exacly with the question. 

• Matching Questions: The students must corelated a key word for one colum to some definition from the other colum.

• Labeling Questions: Those kind of questions are good to remembering vocabulary.

I realize that most of the time I don't define clearly the purpose of the readings for my student's.  

I compromise myself work on all the readings that I will going to use next semester.