Session Topics Specific Objectives Learning Activities Evaluation Sources 1 Introduction to course outline and overview of reading for general communication Students can mention some aspects related to reading for general communication Introduce course outline and overview of reading for general communication - Syllabus, Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- introduction 2-3 Reading for pleasure Students can choose a book to read for their own pleasure and write a record of their readings Explain the guidelines for choosing a pleasure reading book and assign students to choose the books they want to read Exercise Presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part one 4-5 Scanning Students can scan various texts for specific information Explain how to scan the texts and check students’ progress in reading for pleasure. Students practice scanning the texts Exercise presentation quiz 1 Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 1 6-7 Previewing and predicting Students can preview a text and predict about the content of the book and differentiate the two Discuss the techniques for previewing and predicting a text/book Exercise presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 2 8-9 Vocabulary knowledge for effective reading Students can guess unknown vocabulary and guess meaning from the context, use grammar to guess word’s meaning, Explore ways to guess meaning of words and students practice guessing meaning from context Exercise presentation quiz 2 Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 3
recognize words that connect ideas, find synonyms 9-10 Mid-test 11 Topics Students can define the meaning of the topic and check students’ progress In reading for pleasure Explore the ways to find the topics and check students’ progress in reading for pleasure Presentation quiz 3 Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 4 12-13 Topics and paragraph Students can define the meaning of a paragraph, identify the topics of the paragraph, and find the topic sentences Discuss the elements of paragraph, determine the topics of a paragraph Exercise presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 5 14-15 Main ideas Students can define what main idea is, and find the main idea of the text Explain how to identify the main ideas of the texts Exercise presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 6 16-17 Patterns of Organization Students can mention common patterns of organization, identify the pattern of organization of paragraphs Discuss common patterns of organization used in a text Presentation quiz 4 Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 7 18-19 Skimming Students can define what skimming is, differentiate skimming from scanning, skim the text for general ideas Explain how to skim a text and contrast skimming and scanning Exercise presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 8 20-21 Making inferences Students can mention and make inference Discuss what is meant by making inferences Presentation quiz 5 Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 9
from the text and student practice making inference from a text 22-23 Summarizing Students can summarize various kinds of the texts Dicuss the principles of a good summary and students practice summarizing a text Exercise presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 2 unit 10 24 Thinking skills Students can think in English while they read Explain the strategies to think in English while reading Exercise Presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 3 25-26 Faster reading Students can improve their reading speed Explain the steps to read faster and students practice recording their reading speed presentation Miculecky & Jeffries, 1996- part 4 27 Final Test Written test