“The Elevator Romance” - Teaching Reading

Hey guys!

Last week at one of the Christina's classes, she showed us some really nice techniques to teach reading in a more engaging way. Some of these techniques I have already studied and also have already applied them in my classrooms, but some I have just studied, but haven’t used in my classroom yet, but after Christina’s class I am motivated to try to integrate them.

I really like the techniques that Christina used on the text “The elevator romance”. Some of these techniques like, showing the picture before the text and asking students what they think it is the story about or what the people are doing, giving some pictures and asking the students to put the text in the correct order before reading, and the post-reading activities, I frequently use.

What I haven’t used before and I think I will try to integrate more in my classes is the active vocabulary activity that we did in the pre-reading, where in pairs we had to move around the class to find the words after the teacher read their definition to us, I thought it was really fun and that my students would think too, because most of them love to move around the class instead of being sitting all the time. 

I loved the text too, it is usually so difficult to find funny and interesting stories to my basic students and I think the text would be perfect, first because the grammar and vocabulary are really easy to understand and second the topic is something that they love to talk about, romance and unexpected endings. I also think that many of my colleagues from my school might love it too, because it was really engaging,  I can wait to show them when I come back.

See ya!