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I need your advice on how to improve the students' reading ability,help!
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 06:57
Recently, i found that my students' reading ability needs improvement. So i copied a lot of articles from some famous English websites like CNN and even the website of the whitehouse and printed them out after i replaced some difficult words with easier ones and just found that the students still found them too difficult. They complained that there were just too many new words for them. And they are not familiar with some long sentences. Of course, i felt that the articles i chose were just the simplest and easiest for them. I can't find earier ones than those. And besides, I taught them the texts on their textbooks everyday, and the articles i printed were just complements. I thought the best way to improve the reading ability is to read a lot. But in reality, it seems the students and i are facing a lot of troubles. So, do you guys have any good ideas? Can you recommend some good sources where i can find better and easier articles for them to read? The topics and contents of the articles has no limit! Anything in English is worthing reading, i think.
I'd appreciate any suggestions and help !
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 02:12
#2
Thanks for your advice,Rocio!
Thanks for your advice,Rocio! I'm teaching Senior one high school students. So the biggest problem is their limited vocabulary. I'm trying to have them read more and the wikipedia as well as tales is a good idea! I'll try some of that!
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 09:05
#3
You may have to rewrite
some of the articles. Get the students to underline all 'hard' words and explain them before. I find short articles are best. Otherwise it is overwhelming.
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 23:50
#4
21st century paper
I find is good for students of that level. Short current articles and sometimes gives an explanation in Chinese.
Thu, 02/25/2010 - 05:24
#5
thank you guys. I take your
thank you guys. I take your advice and get them shorter articles.
Thu, 02/25/2010 - 05:25
#6
and the first 3 paragraphs of
and the first 3 paragraphs of Mark Twain's novel the million pound bank note are good! It's vivid description,fun to read and easy to understand!
What's this?
What do you think about use tales? how old are you students? if they are universty' s student is not very good, but if they are middle school perhaps you can use. If they are older search for some issue in wikipedia, use short articles about any isue they would like. Some of them are translated to chinese and it can help them to understand. In my Spanish classes I used wikipedia some times to increase the level of best students.