During

Reading
Activities
Here is where your presentation begins
 Activities during reading have two
main purposes.
 First, they increase students’ understanding of the
text.
 Second, they enable the teacher to check if
students understand what they are reading—and
in which areas students need help or support.
englishteaching101.com listed four while-
reading activities: suggestopedic reading-
aloud, vocabulary notebook and word wall,
think-pair-share comprehension questions,
and thought-unit paraphrasing.
 1
Suggestopedic
Reading Aloud
Suggestopedia is a teaching
approach developed by Bulgarian
psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov used
mostly in teaching foreign languages.
Suggestopedic Reading Aloud activity is a
reading session where you and your students
read aloud each line or text, observing
appropriate stress and rhythm, and
employing evocative background soundtrack
that matches the poem’s theme.
 Let’s
Read!

Vocabulary
Notebook
Keeping a vocabulary
notebook is a reading strategy to
broaden your student’s mental
lexicon.
 Hi!

Think-Pair-
Share
Comprehension
Questions
Think-pair-share (TPS) is a
collaborative learning strategy where
students work together to solve a
problem or answer a question about an
assigned reading.
Good
Job!

Thought-Unit
Paraphrasing
This is restating each stanza or thought
unit in prose form. This activity seeks to
assess whether the students grasp well
the meaning of each poetic stanza or
thought unit.
 STRATEGIES
THAT
STUDENTS CAN
USE DURING
READING
 MARGINAL
NOTES
Students may recapitulate the main point and
any key details in the margin or paraphase to
check their comprehension.
 RESPONSE
SHEET
Ask students to make a table with two columns.
In the first column, instruct them to write down
important information from the text they are
reading. In the second column, let them write
their corresponding responses.
 STICKY
NOTES

Make students write down ideas on

sticky notes and put them on the
pages as they read.
 KWL
CHART
Know, what to know,
and learned
 CODING
TEXT
Students are asked to place a question mark next to
an underlined statement they do not understand, an
exclamation point next to something that surprised,
and double-headed arrow and brief statement next
to something that prods them to link to something
they are already familiar with.
 STORY
MAPPING
When reading a narrative, you may
ask your students to complete a story
map.
These enriched and eclectic while-
reading activities will surely help your
students optimize their reading
comprehension at the same time,
develop their love for poetry