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    ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids: Very Practical Ideas for Reading-Focused TEFL Lessons
    ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids: Very Practical Ideas for Reading-Focused TEFL Lessons
    ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids: Very Practical Ideas for Reading-Focused TEFL Lessons
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    ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids: Very Practical Ideas for Reading-Focused TEFL Lessons

    By Jackie Bolen

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    Have better ESL/EFL reading classes with kids!

    During her decades of experience teaching English around the world, Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students. She's sharing her low-prep/no-prep reading ideas with ESL teachers. These are the activities that she uses in her own classes!

    Pick up a copy of the book if you want to...

    • Have better English lessons with young learners
    • Save a ton of time when planning lessons
    • Help students improve their English skills in a big way
    • See lots of happy, smiling faces in your classes
    • Add some variety to English classes

    In ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids, you'll get a ton of creative and interesting ideas for reading to use in your own classroom. The highly detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. The clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students.

    If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, this book makes it easy to try out new and exciting TEFL reading activities your students will love! 

    Buy ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids to get new lesson plans ready to go in minutes!


     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJackie Bolen
    Release dateOct 22, 2024
    ISBN9798227524447
    ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids: Very Practical Ideas for Reading-Focused TEFL Lessons

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      ESL Reading Games and Activities for Kids - Jackie Bolen

      About the Author: Jackie Bolen

      I taught English in South Korea for a decade to every level and type of student, including every age from kindergarten kids to adults. These days, I'm living in Vancouver and teaching English to a variety of students. In my spare time, you can usually find me outside surfing, biking, hiking or on the hunt for the most delicious kimchi I can find.

      In case you were wondering what my academic qualifications are, I hold a Master of Arts in Psychology. During my time in Korea, I completed both the Cambridge CELTA and DELTA certification programs. With the combination of years teaching ESL/EFL learners of all ages and levels, and the more formal teaching qualifications I've obtained, I have a solid foundation on which to offer teaching advice. I truly hope that you find this book useful and would love it if you sent me an email with any questions or feedback that you might have (jb.business.online@gmail.com).

      If you want more ideas, games, tips and tricks for teaching English, be sure to join my email list: www.eslspeaking.org/subscribe.

      Jackie Bolen around the Internet

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      Top 10 Tips for Teaching ESL Reading

      The tips that follow assume that students are able to read at least somewhat proficiently and that the goal is to improve reading comprehension skills or fluency. If students don't know how to read well, class time would be much better spent teaching or reviewing phonics. There's a section in this book with activities just for that so keep on reading!

      #1: It's Not Just About Reading for Detail

      It's easy to focus most of our reading activities on reading for detail. By that, I mean that our students read a text and then answer some comprehension questions. However, there's a lot more to it and there are a huge range of reading sub-skills to consider working on. For example:

      −  Skimming

      −  Scanning

      −  Inferring meaning

      −  Summarizing

      −  Recognizing letters or words

      The next section of this book has more details about reading sub-skills and the activities in this book are designed to practice a variety of them.

      #2: Don't Forget to Set the Context

      In any lesson that we teach, reading included, it's key to set the context before jumping into the lesson. This helps to prime students for what they're about to learn or in this case, read. It's possible to do this in any number of ways, but perhaps the simplest way to do it is to get students to talk with a partner about the topic of the reading. You could also consider showing a short video, or having students look at a related picture.

      #3: Consider Students' Needs

      In terms of needs for our students when it comes to reading, there are obviously some very different ones. If you're not sure what kinds of needs your students have, ask them or their parents! You'll also be able to figure this out quite quickly by paying close attention to how the students are doing in the first couple of lessons. Then, do your best to tailor your lessons to their specific situations. I generally try to focus some class time on general reading skills and then some time to the specific reading needs of the students.

      #4: Vocabulary is Important

      If you've ever studied another language, maybe you've had the experience of understanding almost nothing of what you read because your vocabulary was quite limited. We've all been there and it's certainly a stressful experience.

      If your students are quite weak when it comes to vocabulary, then you'll have to be especially careful at selecting reading passages. They should be challenging to our students but not so challenging that they're overwhelming. Of course, they can also be useful tools for learning new vocabulary so consider pre-teaching some words that you think your students may not be familiar with before getting started.

      #5: Use a Variety of Comprehension Questions

      When it comes to comprehension questions, I like to mix things up a little bit and keep my students on their toes! This means a wide variety of question styles such as:

      −  true/false

      −  multiple choice

      −  open-ended questions

      −  short answer questions

      −  summarize the main idea

      −  order events in the story

      −  identifying genre structure, e.g. climax of story, or thesis sentence in an essay (this is more for teaching adults than kids)

      −  opinion questions

      #6: Does it Apply to Real-Life?

      I find that the best reading lessons are those that can apply to real life. This means choosing topics and texts carefully. Hopefully our students can learn some new things as well as improve their reading skills! Or, think to themselves, That's how I feel a lot too!, or, My experience is the same as that person. When students have these kinds of moments, the lesson will be far more memorable which will go a long way towards improving skills.

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