Exercises For Teaching Reading (Classroom Activity)

iTapuih.com - Exercises For Teaching Reading (Classroom Activity). Exercise (Latihan) bertujuan untuk mengajarkan keterampilan reseptif yang diperlukan untuk membaca informasi rinci yang dapat dibagi menjadi beberapa kelompok tergantung pada tujuan yang ingin dicapai. Ada 3 jenis kegiatan yang bisa kita kelompokkan menjadi suatu latihan yang menyenangkan ketika sedang belajar Reading. Hal itu bertujuan untuk membiasakan peserta didik dengan topik, mengembangkan keterampilan, menebak dan menemukan informasi baru dalam teks yang mereka baca.

PRE-READING EXERCISES

While doing pre-reading exercises the students should see all the tasks before reading the text. The following questions may be used.

Can you guess what the text is about judging by the title?
What do you think the following names, figures or dates (if there are any) have to do with the story? Note: the teacher can arrange what the students say in a column on the blackboard and then give the task to look through the text quickly to prove if their guesses were true or false.
What do you know or what have you heard about the subject you are going to read about?

Note: the students may be divided into groups, each group given the same number of questions to make the work more competitive.

WHILE-READING EXERCISES

The next group of exercises aims to teach the students to extract specific information. These are while-reading exercises.

The students should scan the text to extract the information which the tasks demand. They do not have to pay attention to the parts of the text they do not understand.
Previewing for the topic. Ask the students to read the first sentence of each paragraph and the last sentence of the passage and guess what the text is about, or what the general idea is.
The teacher offers some statements and the students are to find out if they are false of true.
The students may be given some questions to answer.

Note: the students may be divided into groups, each group given the same number of questions to make the work more competitive.

POST-READING EXERCISES

These exercises are more concerned with summing up the content of the text, investigation into the writer’s opinion and may entail some kind of follow-up-task related to the text. Here you can use the following tasks:

Find the most important sentence in each paragraph.
Match each sentence of the jumbled summary with the correct paragraph.
Use your imagination and write your end of the story.
Express your attitude to the story, etc.
What is your attitude to the story? Write a letter to the editor.
Organize a press conference.

Note: All the exercises described here can be used in whatever combination the teacher chooses but the succession of the types of exercises should be as offered here.

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