This document discusses using a communicative approach for reading activities. It describes communicative language teaching as emphasizing interaction, authentic texts, focusing on the learning process, linking personal experiences to learning, and connecting classroom learning to outside activities. It provides examples of pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading activities that engage students in communication, such as think-pair-share, surveys, jigsaw reading, cut-up texts, role play, and games. The goal is to increase student talk time, develop functional language skills, and foster team building through interactive reading exercises.

1. Communicative
Reading Activities
Reading activities that engage
using all four skill sets
Ian Stone (ian.stone@Ymail.com)
English Language Fellow

2. Topics to be covered
• About the Communicative Approach.
• The Communicative Approach in
Pre-Reading Activities
• The Communicative Approach in
While-Reading Activities
• The Communicative Approach in
Post-Reading Activities

3. The Communicative Approach
http://www.cambridge.org/other_files/downloads/esl/booklets/Richards-Communicative-Language.pdf

4. David Nunan’s (1991) five features of
Communicative Language Teaching
– An emphasis on learning to communicate through
interaction in the target language.
– The introduction of authentic texts into the learning
situation.
– The provision of opportunities for learners to focus, not
only on language but also on the learning process itself.
– An enhancement of the learner’s own personal
experiences as important contributing elements to
classroom learning.
– An attempt to link classroom language learning with
language activities outside the classroom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communicative_language_teaching&oldid=650598808

5. Using C.L.T. in Reading
• Activities for Pre-reading
• Activities While-reading
• Activities for Post-reading
– Think Pair Share & KWL (Know, Want to know, Learned)
– Photos
– Predictive Reading
– Surveys
– Jigsaw Reading
– Cut-Up Texts
– Read Write Run
– Expert Reading
– Group Summary
– Group Reporters
– Story Telling
– Group Predictions
– Comprehension Games
– Role play

6. Activities for Pre-Reading
• Think, Pair, Share & KWL
(Know, Want to Know, Learned)
• Photos
• Predictive reading (Intro. Paragraph)
• Surveys

7. Survey
Taken From www.BreakingNewsEnglish.com

8. Activities for While-Reading
• Jigsaw Reading
• Cut-Up Texts
• Read Write Run

9. Cut-Up Texts

10. Read Write Run

11. Activities for Post-Reading
• Group Summary (Numbered Heads Together)
• Group Reporters
• Story Telling
• Group Predictions (Round Robin)
• Role play
• Comprehension games such as dice or tic-tac-toe (X&O)

12. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Comprehension-Dice-Game-1033106
Post Reading Activities

13. What Students Gain
• Exponentially increased student talk time
• Functional & Situational Language Skills
• Language Skills
• Team building and social skills
• Problem solving & analytical skills
• Synthesis of new information

14. Communicative
Reading Activities
Thank you
Activities for Pre-reading
Think Pair Share
Surveys
Photos
Predictive Reading
Activities While-reading
Jigsaw Reading
Cut-Up Texts
Read Write Run
Activities for Post-reading
Group Summary
Group Reporters
Story Telling
Group Predictions
Comprehension Games
Role play
Ian Stone (ian.stone@Ymail.com)
English Language Fellow