Charlotte CO #5 Reading w/ Dr. Ciappetta

 

Date/Time: January 21st   

Topic/Skill: Reading skills (Strategies for reading complex texts in a short time: Finding the thesis point)

Teacher Presentation:  The teacher projected the whole reading on the board.

Classroom Management: The teacher timed how long the students had to read and determine what the thesis point of each individual paragraph.

Materials: Article, Google

Student Participation: Everyone was called upon to answer the questions posed by Dr. Ciappetta.  Students were also able to volunteer to answer what they considered the paragraph's thesis statement was.

Feedback Provided: The teacher would discuss the thesis points of the paragraphs with students.  Dr. Ciappetta would often provide specific examples by Googling different animals that followed the adaptations mentioned. 

Lesson(s) on teaching you learned: The way EFL teachers use time management to test the students' abilities to comprehend texts and discern thesis statements from their contents.


Dr. Ciappetta started class by highlighting the various reading strategies the class had previously discussed that could be used for reading complex texts.


Pre-Reading: Scanning pictures, titles, subtitles

Active Reading: Note taking, summarizing after each paragraph

Post-Reading: Summaries, critical thinking


Students were expected to focus on thesis statements, main points, and topic sentences which were all considered composition in reading.  These different items were going to be the students' map for finding important points in complex texts.  

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