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    Pre-Reading Activities Get Them To READ!: Dimitra Tsolakidou 5o Epal Heraklion

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    The document discusses various pre-reading activities that can be used to prepare students and engage them before reading a text. Some examples of pre-reading activities mentioned include having students make predictions based on a title or picture, using key words or sentences from the text, showing videos or visual materials related to the topic, doing brainstorming or having students continue a partial sentence from the text. The goal of pre-reading activities is to motivate students and activate their background knowledge on the topic before they read, which can help improve reading comprehension. The document encourages teachers to be creative with different materials and techniques for the pre-reading stage.

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    The document discusses various pre-reading activities that can be used to prepare students and engage them before reading a text. Some examples of pre-reading activities mentioned include having students make predictions based on a title or picture, using key words or sentences from the text, showing videos or visual materials related to the topic, doing brainstorming or having students continue a partial sentence from the text. The goal of pre-reading activities is to motivate students and activate their background knowledge on the topic before they read, which can help improve reading comprehension. The document encourages teachers to be creative with different materials and techniques for the pre-reading stage.

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    The document discusses various pre-reading activities that can be used to prepare students and engage them before reading a text. Some examples of pre-reading activities mentioned include having students make predictions based on a title or picture, using key words or sentences from the text, showing videos or visual materials related to the topic, doing brainstorming or having students continue a partial sentence from the text. The goal of pre-reading activities is to motivate students and activate their background knowledge on the topic before they read, which can help improve reading comprehension. The document encourages teachers to be creative with different materials and techniques for the pre-reading stage.

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    Pre-reading activities…

    get them to READ!

    Dimitra Tsolakidou
    5o epal Heraklion
    The pre-reading stage:
    • Prepares students for what is to come
    • Gives them a purpose to read on
    • Creates motivation
    • Activates the relevant content schemata
    • Releases text anxiety and stress
    • Contributes greatly to reading
    comprehension
    • Influences the success (or not) of the
    reading lesson
    In practice: What can you do
    before the actual reading?

    Surprise!
    Prediction:

    If you saw a title written on board saying


    ‘Welcome to paradise’ what would you
    think the text would be about?
    Realia (i.e. post cards, photographs)
    Show them a map!
    Use a sentence from the text:
    ‘It is no coincidence that the most
    cosmopolitan of all Greek islands attracts
    so many visitors from the entire globe…’ or
    ‘join the crowds on beaches, in bars and
    restaurants, feeling the cosmopolitan air
    the island sends out all around you’

    Q: can you guess the island?


    Give them a motive…

    Question posed / quiz :

    how many people in the world, according


    to your opinion, speak English as a foreign
    language?
    Show them a video
    Create the context
    • Give the first sentence of the text and ask
    students to continue and give their
    suggestions / opinions…

    ‘When most Greek parents receive bad


    school reports for their children, their usual
    reaction is….’
    School Report
    Name:……………………..Class:….
    Subject Grade Comment
    Mathematics
    Physical Education

    Greek Literature

    English

    History

    Teacher’s Signature………………..…
    Let’s exchange more ideas…
    Give them key words
    • Relevant vocabulary
    exploited
    meat

    food: restaurant, diet,


    eating habits, healthy fish

    food, junk food, Dairy products

    weight, calories,
    vitamins, food Vegetables / fruit

    pyramid
    Cereals / grains
    Give them visual stimuli
    Give them photocopied material
    bagel bun cheeseburger chili

    coffee croissant donut hamburger

    hot dog lemonade muffin pastry

    pizza soda taco tea


    Brainstorming technique

    pollution => air/sea/ground


    =>contamination => destroys natural chain
    => humans are affected => illness =>
    death

    solution => recycling, saving energy,


    respecting nature
    Give them a song!
    If you tolerate this… (lyrics)
    • The future teaches you to be • Gravity keeps my head down
    alone Or is it maybe shame
    The present to be afraid and cold At being so young and being so
    So if I can shoot rabbits vain
    Then I can shoot fascists Holes in your head today
    Bullets for your brain today But I'm a pacifist
    But we'll forget it all again I've walked La Ramblas
    Monuments put from pen to paper But not with real intent
    Turns me into a gutless wonder And if you tolerate this
    And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next
    Then your children will be next And if you tolerate this
    And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next
    Then your children will be next Will be next
    Will be next Will be next
    Will be next Will be next
    Will be next Will be next
    For the pre-reading stage…give them
    something to read
    If that was the pre-reading
    stage… what do you expect to
    follow?
    In case you are wondering… this is the actual
    reading text!
    There is more to ‘pre-reading’ that
    meets the eye…
    • Story grid (5 words to invent a story)
    • Definitions of words (i.e. peace, culture)
    • Diagrams (i.e. tree diagrams)
    • Witty quotes (‘mistakes are the portals of
    discovery’)
    • Miming
    • Opposites (pollution, traffic)
    So don’t repeat yourselves and keep
    your options open…

    any material could be a potential


    pre – reading activity!
    thank you!

    Dimitra Tsolakidou
    dtsolakidou@yahoo.com

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