Facilitate Students’ understanding when reading

When teaching students to read English you will still need to ensure that student talk time is high. Activities are a great way to do this and they will help you to work out how much students have understood from the text they have been reading.

1. Do-it-yourself question – can be done in groups or pairs. Students write comprehension questions for other students to answer.
2. Come up with a title for a story.
3. Summarise a story.
4. Continue the story – students offer suggestions as to what happens next.
5. Preface to the story – students offer suggestions as to what happened before the story began.
6. Revision – students are given the pictures from a storyboard of the text and have to put them in order.
7. Fill in the gap – students are given a text with certain words missing and have to fill them in appropriately.
8. Correct mistakes – students are given two texts and through asking each other questions they identify and correct any mistakes.
9. Discussion about themes present in the text.