After-reading Tips

It is necessary to state that post-reading activities almost always depend on the purpose of reading and the type of information extracted from the text. Barnett (1988) has stated that post-reading exercises first check students' comprehension and then lead students to a deeper analysis of the text. In the real world the purpose of reading is not to memorize an author's point of view or to summarize text content, but rather to see into another mind, or to mesh new information into what one already knows. Group discussion will help students focus on information they did not comprehend, or did comprehend correctly. Accordingly, attention will be focused on processes that lead to comprehension or miscomprehension. Generally speaking, post-reading can take the form of various activities as presented below:

• Discussing the text: Written/Oral

• Summarizing: Written/Oral

• Making questions: Written/Oral

• Answering questions: Written/Oral

• Filling in forms and charts

• Writing reading logs

• Completing a text

• Listening to or reading other related materials

• Role-playing

References
Barnett, M. A. (1988). Teaching reading in a foreign language. ERIC Digest