The document discusses the purpose and use of texts in the classroom. It provides examples of lessons and activities teachers can do before, during, and after reading texts with students. It also reflects on past teaching practices and emphasizes using authentic texts and tasks to help students learn useful language in meaningful contexts rather than focusing solely on skills.

1. What are texts in the classroom for? Hugh Dellar Heinle Cengage / The University of Westminster

3. Carol! She’s the best! Lesson 1

4. What do you do if you don’t know a word? Lesson 2 Look it up in a dictionary!

6. Twig / branch / leaf To acclimatise oneself Orangutan treacle

7. Philip Kerr: good readers are simply good language knowers! Lesson 3

8. Assessing Reading by J. Charles Alderson Lesson 4 Even if there are separate skills in the reading process… it appears extremely difficult, if not impossible to isolate them for the sake of testing or research. What appears to matter [for being a quick reader] is the massive over-learning of words and much recognition practice in transferable and interesting contexts, in order to ensure quick access during reading.

9. DELTA lesson Making leaflets - or paper airplanes! Lesson 5

10. I know what an index is! Lesson 6