Some ideas on how to help our ESL students to become better readers.

1. Reimagining Reading: Building Happy and Successful ESL Readers TESOL 2010, Boston, MA. Session #166486 Eva M. Ramos R. Panama.

2. Problem: Reading is sometimes a hard skill to teach. Students, especially beginners, find reading difficult and even boring, changing that becomes a real challenge for any ESL teacher.

3. Questions: What is the right approach to use? How can I make reading interesting and meaningful for my ESL students? What resources can I incorporate to make reading fun and enjoyable?

4. Solution: Building Happy & Successful Readers: The Plan + Strategies =Success!

5. Purpose: To approach reading with a specific plan in mind and apply different effective and creative ideas to help ESL learners to become successful readers while having fun at the same time.

6. Preparation:

7. Step 1: BeforePlanning In order to design a successful and memorable reading lesson we need to start by considering the different factors that may affect the impact that a reading selection may have.

8. Who Reader + WhatText WhyPurpose = HowStrategies

9. Step 2: BuildingtheLearner’s Reading Skills Dealing with a text in another language is not an easy task for EFL/ESL learners, for that reason we have to help them become better readers by developing reading proficiency through the use of reading strategies.

10. Reading Strategies KWL Scanning SQ3R Skimming

11. Step 3: PlanningOur Reading Lesson PDP FRAMEWORK

12. Step 4: Becoming a betterreadingteacher. Jigsaw Reading Prediction Guide Reader’s Theater Choral Reading Teacher-Created Books Fly-swatter Reading

13. “It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own”. Katherine Paterson