[Originally published in ELT Chat
of www.Free_esl.com]
Encourage students to read a chapter of the prescribed novel every
week. The following types of questions could be asked to enhance textual comprehension in addition to
the time honoured Question – Answer sessions or
Summarizing tasks.
* Closed questions* True-false-statements
* Multiple-choice-tests
* Summarizing episodes
* Completing defective dialogues
* Correcting mixed up summaries
* Locating and contextualizing quotations
* A Gapped Summary as a fill-in-exercise
* Encouraging students to illustrate paragraphs
* Having the students write one sentence for each paragraph
* Putting a character’s dialogue in the wrong place; the students find and correct it
* Scrambled sentences to be put in the correct order through listening comprehension.
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