Reading Skill

As for this week's task, I chose to undertake the reading skill activity in my group. Reading skill is an important skill, which helps students to gain input like listening skill. Therefore, it is essential to prepare the task apprpriately bearing in mind that this is the stage where the pupils acquire knowledge. Therefore, I chose to carry out this task in the pre-stage of the lesson. This is suitable because students are given input in the pre-stage. Thus, reading skill activity in the pre-stage proved a good combination. Since this work was individual, it did not involve a lot of communication with other group members. We only discussed with each other when checking on our ideas (whether the idea would work) and upon completion of the task to double check with group members if its on the right track. What I did was to refer to my previous sememster course 'Teaching Reading Skills'. The notes of the previous semester provided a guide for me in the completion of this task.
In this task, I created an e-book to be used by the teacher to provide the input. The e-book is colourful and full if animations. It would naturally attract the pupils’ attention. Moreover, in receiving input, the pupils will easily forget if they only hear it. Therefore, it is better for them to see it visually and be able to read the text as well as look at the pictures to remember the input. The presentation of the text and the picture will help them to connect the pictures to the text and thus, be able to understand and remember easily.The teacher, will be able to sustain each of the pupils’ attention towards the e-book. In this activity, every pupil in the class has a role to play throughout. Thus, they will not become bored or shift their attention towards something else.This task will be helpful in measuring the pupils’ understanding. If the pupils understand the input, they would be able to match the pictures to words correctly.