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Home Reading: Selecting a Good Book for Young Learners

By Inna Viller Ternopil, Ukraine 2010-2011. Home Reading: Selecting a Good Book for Young Learners. Why should an ESL teacher incorporate home-reading?. YOUR ANSWERS …. Home Reading:. helps a young learner to gain a language acquisition …

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Home Reading: Selecting a Good Book for Young Learners

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  1. By Inna Viller Ternopil, Ukraine 2010-2011 Home Reading:Selecting a Good Book for Young Learners

  2. Why should an ESL teacher incorporate home-reading? YOUR ANSWERS …

  3. Home Reading: • helps a young learner to gain a language acquisition… • supports the English speaking environment outside the class

  4. it is supported by illustrations(ideally, each page has a picture; images supporting context help YL guess the meaning of new words) • it isnot overdosedwith new words; • they canrelate to the events and charactersin the story; • they candiscovernew thingsabout the world with characters; • they canlearnnew words and phrasesfor communication and developing relationships with characters; • it is inbig print sizeand there is spacing between the lines; • a new book/chapter hasa new adventure; • they canowna book orcollecta sequence of books(a sense of ownership provides overview and re-reading); Kids enjoy reading when… Then, kids will enjoy English and become successful learners!

  5. REALITY: A good English book to find for home-reading lessons is a rare thing(according to young learners’ requirements) • if there are any good books • in the bookstores, • they cost(not everyone • can afford it in the class); • If there ARE any affordable • books in the bookstores, • they do NOT go with the • requirements(no pictures, • only text, poorly developed • exercises etc.)

  6. Any solutions?

  7. ‘TOMMY TALES’ • 38 books • (are short to let children keep focused and excited: consist of 15 pages - illustrated; black & white or colour versions available) • each book is • a separate story • a new book - a new adventure of Tommy and his friends MEET REQUIREMENTS DOWNLOADABLE AFFORDABLE (free of charge!) PRINTABLE ACCESSIBLE ADORABLE :-)

  8. TOMMY TALES: Where to get these stories? • www.learningpage.com (printable copies are available; you need to get registered)

  9. TOMMY TALES www.learningpage.com

  10. Students making a story by the illustrations before they read a book TOMMY TALES Predicting the plot and how the story might finish

  11. TOMMY TALES: Fun Worksheets

  12. TOMMY TALES: Teaching Notes

  13. TOMMY TALES: FACT FILES

  14. TOMMY TALES: Cut Outs

  15. Create TOMMY TALES Library!(Printable Copies - Colour and Black&White versions)

  16. ‘Facts File’ (facts about ‘Tommy Tales’ characters outside the story)encourages students to be attentive readers - what’s missing from the story?

  17. TOMMY TALES After-reading: putting pictures in the right sequence with no text support (Teacher cuts the story illustrations out and mixes them before the task)

  18. Group Story Summaries: re-telling developsactive peer-listening and encourages facts accuracy Group 1 - trying to restore by memory the events sequence from Book 5 by illustrations)

  19. Group Story Summary: Group 2 - trying to restore by memory the events sequence from Book 3 by illustrations)

  20. TOMMY TALES: Group 3 - trying to restore by memory the events sequence from Book 4 by illustrations)

  21. Select ‘TOMMY TALES’ for teenagers of 10-13! They’ll enjoy home reading.Their English will improve.

  22. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SPECIAL THANKStothe ETTO course-2010for primary English teachersadministered bythe British Council in Ukrainefor recommending www.learningpage.com From an English Teaching Training Online-2010 alumna, Ternopil, Ukraine, a zealous user of ‘Tommy Tales’ and her pre-teen and teen students

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