Interactive Reading Tasks

Authors: Nino SarauliNana Aivazashvili

Reading types Reading for gist(skimming)Reading for specific information)Reading for details( analyzing a text

very closely)Intensive reading(analyzing the

language in a text)Extensive reading(reading for

pleasure)

Classroom activities to practice reading strategiesWhether we are reading intensively, using

cohesive devices or guessing the meaning of words from context, reading effectively involves so much more than simply reading a text and answering questions. There are activities and tasks that will help us significantly develop our learners' reading skills.

Using activities to get our learners thinking and talking about the text from before, during and after they read it offers great benefits!

Reading strategiesRunning Dictation

Running Reading

Jigsaw Reading

Run, Read and DictateIn this activity

students dictate a passage to one another by running across the class and using their memory. Each student should run and read a sentence, get back and dictate what they remembered, to their partner.

Running ReadingDifferent parts of

the text are on the walls. Students have questions, they should find out the answers into the texts. They should remember the text and bring to their partner.

Jigsaw ReadingIt is very useful when working with short

authentic texts such as newspaper articles. Jigsaw reading can be done in two ways:

Two separate stories One story split in two

Give one half of the class (Group A) one story, and the other half (Group B) the other. The students

read their article, answer the questions and check understanding. Students

then pair up with someone from the other

group and tell them about their story,

Some stories can be clearly divided in two.

Follow the same procedure as above, but giving each group only one half of the story.

When the students are recounting their half of the article, make sure

that the student with the opening half goes first.

Bloom Taxonomy and Reading strategies

Thank you!

2013