Using Textbook Reading Activities

Using Textbook Reading Activities

Many language textbooks emphasize product (answers to comprehension questions) over process (using reading skills and strategies to understand the text), providing little or no contextual information about the reading selections or their authors, and few if any pre-reading activities. Newer textbooks may provide pre-reading activities and reading strategy guidance,

but their one-size-fits-all approach may or may not be appropriate for your students.

You can use the guidelines for developing reading activities given here as starting points

for evaluating and adapting textbook reading activities. Use existing, or add your own,

pre-reading activities and reading strategy practice as appropriate for your students.

Don't make students do exercises simply because they are in the book; this destroys motivation.

Another problem with textbook reading selections is that they have been adapted

to a predetermined reading level through adjustment of vocabulary, grammar,

and sentence length. This makes them more immediately approachable,

but it also means that they are less authentic and do not encourage students

to apply the reading strategies they will need to use outside of class.

When this is the case, use the textbook reading selection as a starting point

to introduce a writer or topic, and then give students choices

of more challenging authentic texts to read as a follow-up.

http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/reading/textread.htm

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