little flower’s school

How to develop Students’ Reading Skills (P.3) using Textbook (New

Welcome) and Stories (Powerpoint stories)

Little Flower’s School

Teaching Strategies • Use “Fun Reading” to promote independent

reading, get students familiar with basic reading skills

• Adopt modular approach, introduce powerpoint story to raise students’ standards, focus on BC reading skills, consolidate by supplementary exercises

New Welcome Book 3A Unit 1 – My Friend

Unit 2 – My toys

New Welcome

Module: My Friend

Vocabulary and sentence patterns are well taught before reading

Introduce story book “ My Special Friend” written by Jacqueline Wilson

Use the powerpoint story to teach reading strategies like:

• obtain information from the book cover

• Predict the meaning of unfamiliar word using visual clue

• Guess the meaning of unfamiliar word using contextual clue

• Respond to short text with ideas (personal or imaginative) with the help of cues

A daily practice

- Fun Reading

New Welcome Module: My Toys

What do you think….?

Why?

A daily practice – comprehension exercise

Unfamiliar words

Indirect questions

Powerpoint Story

- shared reading

Perfect?

What do you think of the shopkeeper?

I think shopkeeper helpful.

Using follow-up worksheet to consolidate oral response

A Simple Spider

Scripts of the story

Group writing

Individual writing

Conclusion • Make use of the existing resources• WTE - Fun Reading, Comprehension Ex• Add reading materials• Stories (in powerpoint)• Adopt modular base• Reading for enhancement of reading skills, writing,

speaking or even listening• Vertical development (now in P.3)