ABSTRACT
To help your students learn a world language, don’t forget the power of reading! In this practical book from Donna Spangler and John Alex Mazzante, you’ll gain a variety of strategies and activities that you can use to teach students to read in a world language, boosting their comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Perfect for any age or proficiency level, these classroom-ready activities can easily be adapted to suit your needs!
Special features:
- A discussion of the challenges to teaching reading in the world language classroom
- A variety of adaptable pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading strategies and activities for students across grade levels and languages
- Essential tips for cultivating vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension
- Reader’s Theater – a special chapter of strategies for implementing this exciting technique
- A list of helpful websites and apps for world language teachers
- Useful appendices, including reproducible material for your classroom
Busy world language teachers will love this book’s numerous classroom examples, ready-to-use templates, and free online reading sources. Bonus: The book includes eResources that are free to adapt and print for classroom use from our website, https://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138853515.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|5 pages
Reading in the World Language Classroom
part 2|14 pages
Implications for L2 Teachers
part 3|67 pages
Reading Strategies
part 4|37 pages
Reading Activities
part 5|16 pages
Reader's Theater
part 6|31 pages
Resources, References, and Downloads