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MODULE 2

Learning Outcomes
After getting through with this module, students of this course are expected to:
1. describe the strategies and approaches suited in developing love for reading
among the young learners
2. design pre-reading activities relevant to the text the teacher wanted to present

Overview
This module will expose you to the different strategies you can implement as
you teach young children to love reading and develop their innate capability as
readers of different genres and be able to help them find the books they love. Plus,
enhancing their reading comprehension strategies to deepen their engagement.

ENGAGE

Initial Activity
Directions: Surf the net and watch a video of a
teacher teaching reading with creativity in
motivating the learners to love reading.
Assess the teacher and the learners.

EXPLORE

Chapter 2: Content and Approaches

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Developing a Love of Reading in Students

Every elementary school teacher is a reading teacher and is essential in

helping each child on his or her reading journey. When we provide the resources to
meet the literacy needs of our students beginning as early as prekindergarten,
students and teachers will feel both confident and competent in teaching and
learning to read.
Create Motivation
Motivation is the key in promoting a love of literacy in children. One of the best
resources is a shelf-filled with books that match students’ interest level and
reading level. Teachers can be the best book matchmakers for their students.
This practice will help teachers learn the strengths, challenges, likes, and
dislikes of their students.
Read Together
Through daily guided reading, teachers can introduce students to high-interest
instructional text across genres. Daily individualized reading practice gives
students the opportunity to read books of choice on their independent reading
level and grow as readers. Introduce children to multiple genres of books
during small-group reading instruction.

Six Ways to Create a Love for Reading

1. Walk the walk

Read from the day your child is born until the day she leaves the house. Read
with your kids, but also let your kids see you read.

2. Develop a routine
Develop family reading rituals like reading before bed, snuggled in a chair or
sitting together on the couch as a family, reading your own books on a
Saturday morning.

3. Invest in their story

Create a home full of books and book talk: books on your night stand; books
on the coffee table; books in the bathroom. While you are reading, ask your
child questions about the book, so she can make connections and share
wonderings as you read. You can use this information to help your child
choose his next book at the library or bookstore.

4. Keep books on the brain

Instead of asking, “What did you learn today?” ask: “What did you read
today?” Talking through answers to these questions is a fun way to spark
conversations about reading.

5. Create personal shelf space

Have a special bookshelf for your child’s books. Decorate it. Prominently
place it in her bedroom. Let kids choose their own books grounded in their
interests and passions. Help your child figure out his or her interests by asking

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these questions: if a book were written just for you, what would it be about? If
you could be an expert on any subject, what would it be? What are two things
you are really curious about?

6. Celebrate book ownership

Get excited when you add books to the bookshelf and take time to revisit
those books that are a bit dusty and worn. Help your child understand that it is
a privilege to own books, one that sadly millions of children in our country
don’t have.

Pre-Reading Activities
When reading is taught, teachers usually follow a framework to teach a
lesson, that framework has three stages
 The Pre-reading stage
 The While-Reading stage
 The Post-Reading stage

Why are Pre-Reading Activities Important?

Pre-reading activities play an important role in a reading lesson. Every
reading lesson should start with activities to activate background knowledge and a
series of activities to prepare student for the reading.

Pre-reading activities help students prepare for the reading activity by

activating the relevant schemata, and motivating them to read.

Pre-reading activities can also help learners anticipate the topic, vocabulary
and possibly important grammar structures in the texts.

Pre-Reading Activities that You can Implement in the Classroom

Creativity leads to the creation of more activities to suit needs and interest of
a diversed community.

 Pre-Reading Task #1: Discussion

The Teacher prepares 4 sentences expressing opinions about the topic, then
sticks them in the 4 corners of the classroom.

Students go and stand near the opinion they disagree with the most. The
groups explain why the disagree about the topic to the teacher and the rest of the
students.

 Pre-Reading Task #2: I’m listening to You

This activity can help teachers promote interaction in the class. This activity
requires students to work in pairs. One of them talks while his or her partner listens.
Then challenge them to talk in English for 1 minute about a topic. Repeat with a new
topic, students change roles and they can change partner after they have spoken
and listened to each other.

 Pre-Reading Task #3: Quotes

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Find a quotation about the topic that you are going to cover and tell students
to make groups of three and discuss the quotes you chose in advance.
Students think about and answer questions like these:
 What does it mean?
 Do they agree with it? Why/Why not.

 Pre-Reading Task #4: Guessing from Words

Before students look at the text they are going to read, the teacher writes 5 or
6 words from the text on the board and asks the students to guess the topic.

Students brainstorm ideas and then the teacher confirms how close or far
they were.

 Pre-Reading Task #5: Guessing from Pictures

The teacher finds 3 pictures or objects which are connected to the story and
ask the students to guess how they are connected.

Students read the text to check if they were right or wrong about the story
connections they made.

 Pre-Reading Task #6: Pictionary

Select some of the key words from the text. Put the class into two or three
groups. A learner from each group (at the same time) comes to the whiteboard.

They are told the word and they have to draw that word. They are not allowed
to use letters or numbers in their drawing. The other students try to guess what the
word is and earn points for their team.

 Pre-Reading Task #7: Guessing from sentences

The teacher dictates 3 sentences from the passage. Students write them
down and check with a friend. The sentences go on the board if necessary as a final
check. Then the teacher asks how these sentences might be connected. What is the
text about?

Students predict then read the text quickly to check their predictions.

 Pre-Reading Task #8: How many words do you know?

The teacher prepares the board by writing the letters of the alphabet in 3 or 4
columns. The students form two lines standing behind each other. Use 2 colored
markers so you know which team wrote what. The first student at the front of each
team gets the board marker.

The teacher gives a topic to the class. The 2 students move to the board and
write one word related to the topic on the board next to the letter it begins with, then
pass the marker to the next students in their team and go to the back of the queue.

The 2 teams compete to write as many words as possible on the board in 3

minutes. The team with the largest number of appropriate and correctly spelled
answers wins!

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 Pre-Reading Task #9: Speed chatting

Prepare one or two simple questions related to the topic of the reading. Ask
the class to make two rows facing each other. Then, encourage your learners to ask
each other the questions, but warn them that they only have 60 seconds to do so.

Once the 60 seconds are up, one of the rows rotates so each learner has a
new partner. Repeat the process several times.

 Pre-Reading Task #10: Videos

There is so much good free content available these days. First, find a short
video relating to the topic of the reading. I would suggest something around three
minutes long.

After watching the video yourself, prepare some simple discussion questions.
Play the video and then ask the students to talk with a partner about what they
watched.

 Pre-Reading Task #11: Brainstorming

The teacher gives the title of the reading to the learners and students have to
share their all their knowledge about the topic.

The goal of this activity is help learners create expectations about what they
are about to read and then see if their expectation were met.

For example, if you have to teach about the influence of social media on
teenagers, students can take turn and talk about the topic, as they red they can
confirm if the study they read confirm their expectations.

 Pre-Reading Task #12: True or False

Let’s take the example of the influence of social media on teenagers again.
You can come to the classroom and read a few statements and ask them if
they think those statements are true or false. Don’t reveal the answers and let them
confirm if they were right or wrong when they are doing the reading.

 Pre-Reading Task #13: Introducing Vocabulary

In the context of an ESL Classroom, it will always be important to introduce
key vocabulary so students don’t get discouraged by unknown words while they
read.

Introducing vocabulary doesn’t have to be a boring task, you can easily create
a wordle with key vocabulary and see if students can tell you something about those
words.

 Pre-Reading Task #14: KWL Charts

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KWL Charts are simple. Just have students write everything they know about
the topic (K column) and everything they want to know (W column) and what they
learned after the reading (L column)
 Pre-Reading Task #15: Quotations
Prepare some quotes related to the topic and ask students to comment on
them. They don’t have to do that as a class, they can make groups of 3 to 5 people
and then a member of each group can share the ideas with other groups.

EXPLAIN

What is pre-reading?
What the learner brings to the reading will affect how she or he
understands what they read. Pre-reading activities can help the learner to be
more prepared for what they are about to read. It can help them anticipate the
topic of the reading. In doing this, they can also prepare themselves for the kind
of language, vocabulary, and even grammar that might be used in the text. In
addition, if done in the right way, it can encourage the learners to want to read
and maybe even increase their motivation to read.

Here are another pre-reading activities to use in class

1. Speed chatting
2. Discussion
3. Brainstorming
4. Pictures
5. The title
6. Story telling
7. Short conversations
8. Pictionary
9. Purpose
10. Videos

Pre-reading Activities to Generate Interest

 Use visual aids
 Guess the story from the cover
 Familiarize with the characters

Pre-reading Activities for Pre-teaching

 Pre-teach unknown vocabulary
 Introduce difficult concepts
 Putting words into sentences

Pre-reading Activities for Prediction

 Jumble chapter titles
 Predict words
 Predict the story
 Predict the story (from pictures)
 Predict the story (from words)
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 Find the word

Reading is a core skill for any language student, so it’s important to follow
the entire process. Students start learning before the reading assignment actually
begins, so it’s important to have effective pre-reading activities. Not only will this
get the students interested, but it will refresh or introduce necessary information
for the upcoming reading assignment.

ELABORATE

Written Output
Directions: Describe the strategies and approaches suited in developing love for
reading among the young learners. Give one strategy anchored from
a theory and rationalize its effectiveness.

EVALUATE

Performance Task
Directions: Design pre-reading activities relevant to the text the teacher
wanted to present. Cite one example of reading material
suited to primary level and apply the activities you have
designed. Present your work in a matrix or art organizer.

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God bless

Prepared by:

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LENY B. PONCE DE LEON

Instructor

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