“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
We meet again because I'm late with my posts. Sorry, it's my fault, but this is the last time I do that. I promise it will never happen again, and also I hope I will recover of my illness soon. This time I'm going to summarize the week from April 16 to 18; it was a short week, but I learned two more important things.
First, Teacher Wilma shown a Power Point Presentation (PPT) about teaching listening. That presentation was a little confusing for us, because we thought it was OK. However, Teacher Wilma explained the presentation was not well made, because it contained too many effects, lots of words and some non-related graphics with the topic. She explained also that kind of presentations don't show a professional work, because the exceed use of effects and too many words could provoke tiredness and visual unease in the viewer. Less effects and related graphics with only key words could show our professionalism in front of the audience, because people would understand better what is the presentation about, and they could pay attention to our explanation.
Finally, we had to make a good PPT about the principal four learning skills (writing, listening, reading and speaking). It was a pair work, and in groups we had to explain about an specific topic. I worked with my partner in our topic: Teaching Reading. According to our research, reading was used as a form to
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access to the literature written in English, and learn about this language by studying vocabulary and sentence structure, without really reading at all. The purpose of reading is to get and use critical thinking with authors' written ideas and develop communicative skills too, to share our opinions and thoughts about books, essays and many other written works. There are some methods to teach how to read, specially to children. This process must begin with the knowledge of the alphabet, later with the use of phonemes to form words and sentences, and relate the sentences with ideas and experiences to read and understand better a reading extract. In the other hand, there is a problem called Dyslexia. This is a difficulty with learning to read, and this problem could happen to adult people and children too. There are also some ways to teach dyslexic people how to read, however, those methods need a lot of patience, love and understanding of teachers to have positive results. If you know a dyslexic child and you want to help him or her, there are many treatments to use, and you can find more information about this topic on the Internet.
These are two important things that will be helpful during my teacher's life. Actually, I have some dyslexic students, and I was helping them in a good way; but I know some different methods now to help them in a better way.
Well, I finished for today. I will be back next week to share with you more about my classes and the knowledge I'm acquiring now. I leave at the end some web pages and videos related to this interesting skill and how to do an excellent PPT. I think they could be useful.
See ya.
VeroElis.
How to do a good PPT:
About teaching reading:
About teaching reading strategies, methods and Dyslexia:
