This slide is developed for the students who will work in elementary school where English is taught as the foreign language

1. TEACHING WRITTEN ENGLISH
Teaching Reading
and
Teaching Writing
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2. Reading to children is one
of the best ways to put
them on the road to
success - academically and
personally.
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3. Reading to children
stimulates the development
of their brain, language and a
closer emotional relationship
with them.
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4. Is spelling needed in reading?
Letter
name
Letter
sounds
vs
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5. In teaching reading, the
teacher looks the letter from its
sound (phonics).
In teaching writing, the teacher
looks the letter from its normal
name (alphabet/spelling)
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6. Some Reading
Activities
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7. Initial letter game
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8. Jumbling/Reordering
• Letters into a word
• Words into a sentence
• Sentences into a paragraph
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9. Running dictation
1- The teacher writes some sentences on the
board in small size.
2- The class is divided into pairs.
3- Each pair consists of a "runner" and a
"secretary".
4- The runners run to the board and
remember each sentence and dictate them
to their secretaries.
5- The task of the secretaries is to write the
sentences that the runners dictate.
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10. Early writing activities
• Air writing
• Palm writing
• Back writing
• Tracing
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11. Copying
• Straight copying
• Delayed copying
• Matching and copying
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12. That’s all...
Thank you.
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