Today is the turn of write about Reading skill and sometimes practice Reading with students is a little bit complicated and is well known that some students hate read in their native language and they feel less desire to read in a language.
However, there are some websites and pages that can help us to arouse the interest for reading in English and this is so important because reading contributes that a student could receive direct input.
⥢ News in Levels is website that offers news around the world and are super easy to read and understand.
And as you can see, this website has different levels
Using authentic materials can be easier and more dynamic for the students to do reading activities and this website can be use with the traditional "Grammar Translation Method" and "Lexical Approach" because both methods are focus on grammar and the vocabulary acquisition and as it was mentioned the Reading skill is the most important because contributes to the L2 acquisition in a direct form.
One of the possible limitations is that if a student has difficulties to read in Spanish it will be more difficult to read in English and possibly, and the student will not realize the activity.
You are right! reading is one of the most challenging skills to develop for students. Because most of them do not enjoy reading in their mother tongue, and reading in a second languge as English may be boring.
ReplyDeleteNews in levels may be an excelent way to encourage 7th and 8th graders to satart reading in English.