Post reading activities serves several purposes
To obtain a sense of closure
To personalize the main activity
To summarize, reinforce and evaluate what was done
Post reading activities for teachers:
To practice/review new vocabulary encountered in the text
To practice/review grammatical structures encountered in the text
To post activity should be the last 5-10 minutes of the lesson. In a reading lesson for example, there is a difference between applying the activity at an earlier stage of the reading process and at the post reading stage. This difference is due to the quantity and quality of information possessed by the reader.
Some generic lesson endings are:
Asking the students what was taught and done. This could be written on theboard. Students could then give a grade for each lesson part and/or discuss how effective it was taught.
Reviewing the goals of the lessons
Having a question and answer session.
Please note: Many teachers often confuse giving homework as a post activity. Procedures based learning cannot be substituted for content. Students need to redigest or synthesize the information again, but in a different less linear perhaps more creatively depending on how well a teacher knows her students.
Graphic Representations and Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers and representations have been found a very helpful tool in helping pupils comprehend a text of any subject and level.
For lower performing students: the teacher, having introduced organizers previously and having analyzedthe text provides the organizer as a worksheet. The pupils fill in the relevant information either while reading or reading post. If filled out initially during the reading, the reading activity requires a review and revision of the previous stage.
For stronger pupils: the students who are already familiar with several graphic organizers create their own graphic organizer and fill in the relevant information.
In a mixed ability class the stronger students can create the graphic organizer (which should be checked by the teacher) to be filled in by the lower performing students.
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