The teacher should have the students stop at strategic points to discuss the text. This will vary according to the students' reading abilities. Students who are unfamiliar with the meaning of a word are encouraged to guess and write it down. Later, students will find the definition in a bilingual or monolingual English dictionary. Afterwards, they should return to the word and look at the initial, final and middle parts of the word, and ask themselves what word would make sense there.
Information is accepted even if it is out of sequence.
Once the retellings are completed the students and teacher can review the story and work on a sequence of events. Students may also generate their own questions for their peers to answer. Initially, this activity will have to be modeled by the teacher. Students can do a Semantic Features Analysis. This may be done by having a list of people or objects on the left side of the board or handout and a list of adjectives at the top.