Teaching Ideas

ESL students usually encounter difficulty in interpreting texts that they have just read. Here is a basic step that teachers must always observe during reading classes.. Before you present the text that the class will read, list some words from the whole text that you feel will be difficult for them... more

Ask your students to make a short critique about a book that they have read recently. Not every student likes to read! So if your students are not into reading, suggest to them a book that you think they will find interesting and will be easy for them to understand. The critique should include a boo... more

I teach junior high and its very hard to get some of my students to read a book much less make book reports, so I decided to have a little creativity involved. Instead of doing the usual book reports, I told my students to paint how they understood the ideas conveyed by the author or their own versi... more

Before the class reads a book, ask students what they think the story is about based on the title. They might come up with interesting predictions for titles like A Midsummer Night's Dream, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Little Prince etc. You may also ask for synonyms of each word in the title and have... more

This is for Grade School Teachers. All you need to do is construct a table where you write the names of your students in the rows at the left side and assign months with the columns. You then mark the student's reading skills accordingly through color assignments under each month progressively. You ... more