Tuesday, August 24, 2010

LISTENING SKILLS - LULL BEFORE THE COACHING STORM

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Listening skills with Natasha of storynory.com

Group activity assigned by teacher as facilitator.

1-Each coaching group chooses and copy onto word document/pdf 10 stories as read by Natasha, and download the audio file into thumb drive.

2-Plug onto laptop or any audio tools and listen whilst skimming either handwritten copy or printed story for group listening.

3-Coach will decide when group reading is to begin.

4-Word document can be prehighlighted for students to note common mispronunciations (salah prounce?).

5-Move to next story once it has been ascertained that all have reached enough reading fluency.

6-It is important for ESL learners to begin listening to audio by native speakers of the language to enhance their listening skills.

7-As the reading progresses each lesson is to end with spelling tests based on text vocabulary .

8-Students are then graded based on reading fluency, with the seating arrangements shuffled to indicate best student on coach's right while the lesser one on the left.

9-By now group ranking based on reading fluency will mean each classroom will have 4 groups A,B,C,D allowing for the better students to move up to higher levels while also involved in coaching the lower ones.

10-Students are now ready to move to the Key Words series, which we dub 'hidden grammar.




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