Topic presented: famous people
Skill: reading
Date: March 22th, 2013
In the presentation
part of this lesson I activated students´ schemata using pictures with the
vocabulary presented in the reading. What it was interesting about this part
was that student’s respond was excellent. They match the words with the
pictures and then using the vocabulary they inferred the topic of the reading.
In the during part almost all went well, due to the fact that when they fill
the chart collecting information from reading I asked them to say the
information they got. They looked surprise and some of them felt reluctance to
do it. This means that sometimes students are accustomed just to read and fill
some blanks, etc. but not to tell about what they read. Therefore, to keep an
eye on this and make activities that contribute to develop this skill will help
students to have an active interaction and see this as something they are able
to do. 
I also noticed the
ability they have to read and find the information. Some do not even looked
back to check the information when answering multiple choice questions. But in
the post reading part I could notice that some students felt shy when talking
about their favorite star taken from the reading. So, I asked myself. Was it
because they did not like to talk about these stars? Should I have told them to talk about their
favorite star not about one of the stars from the reading? by making this
adjustment probably this part can work better.
Hi Magaly! I really liked your blog, because eventhough we develop the same class I had the oppotunity to read different things that are not shown in the classroom or your thoughts and feelings at the moment of teaching the lesson. That is why I felt identified with you when you taught the reading lesson about famous people, because I did something similar in the writing part where I let them choose one picture of a favorite star. However, I did not think about that before and you helped me think if we as teachers can build some limitations when designing different activities and also the materials that we are going to use. If so, how can we avoid that? How can we design different opportunities for our students to show their own way of learning, knowledge or likes?
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