Mastering Reading Skills: A Lesson for ESOL Entry 3 Students

Mastering Reading Skills: A Lesson for ESOL Entry 3 Students

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to identify and apply various reading skills to comprehend written texts.

What do you already know about reading skills?

Vocabulary Building

Learn new words and phrases related to different topics to enhance reading comprehension.

Skimming and Scanning

Practice skimming to quickly gather the main ideas of a text and scanning to locate specific information.

Predicting Content

Predict the content of a text based on the title, headings, and images before reading.

Understanding Context Clues

Recognize and use context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words in a text.

Summarizing Texts

Learn to condense the main points of a text into a brief summary using key ideas.

Reading Comprehension Strategies

Explore strategies such as questioning, visualizing, and making connections to improve comprehension.

Interactive Reading Activity

Engage in a group reading activity to apply the learned skills and discuss the text together.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.