Prepare the students for the reading exercise by asking them to make predictions about the text using headings, or relate the text to their prior knowledge. Remind the students of reading strategies to use while they read, such as visualizing the meaning as they read and summarizing mentally. This exercise is useful for integrating the four modes. The text needs to be at the students' independent reading level (no more than 1 in 20 difficult words). The students work in pairs, each student independently reading text A or text B. After reading the passage, one student asks the other the questions at the bottom of the page and writes the answers down on his/her own sheet. The roles are then reversed. Each student writes up the answers, as a summary of the partner's reading. To be done well, the exercise will take about 50 minutes. The summary could also be written up for homework.Paired Reading
December 07, 2020
Prepare the students for the reading exercise by asking them to make predictions about the text using headings, or relate the text to their prior knowledge. Remind the students of reading strategies to use while they read, such as visualizing the meaning as they read and summarizing mentally. This exercise is useful for integrating the four modes. The text needs to be at the students' independent reading level (no more than 1 in 20 difficult words). The students work in pairs, each student independently reading text A or text B. After reading the passage, one student asks the other the questions at the bottom of the page and writes the answers down on his/her own sheet. The roles are then reversed. Each student writes up the answers, as a summary of the partner's reading. To be done well, the exercise will take about 50 minutes. The summary could also be written up for homework.