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Can anyone give me some practical advice on the following subject?

What can I, as an English teacher, do to improve the reading comprehension skills of my Chinese freshmen? The topics covered are:
- text structure
- paragraph functions/styles (intro, supporting, transitional, concluding)
- paragraph structure (topic sentence, etc...)
- how to screening texts quickly (find answers, grasp general meaning without reading whole text)

I feel like my possibilities for helpful input are limited. All (I think) there's left to do for us teachers is to give them homework (practice, practice) and discuss the articles, but not much new comes from these sessions and these classes tend to get dull.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to keep reading comprehesion classes interesting? How can we help the students more to improve their skills?

I highly recommend the book Headstarts by Natalie Hess, which has some very unique ideas, both serious and whimsical, for working with texts in an ESL classroom. You can order it through Amazon.com.

Hi, the best I have found for that type of student is at
http://eslgames.com/edutainment/

and the best game is at

http://eslgames.com/wordup/

With those two I have every student older than 12 covered, they are GREAT tools ; )

iann wrote:Hi, the best I have found for that type of student is at
http://eslgames.com/edutainment/

and the best game is at

http://eslgames.com/wordup/

With those two I have every student older than 12 covered, they are GREAT tools ; )

Um, maybe I'm the only one who reads all the posts in all the categories, but after reading this information about 10 times, I think it would be nice not to post the exact same thing on every thread. You work for them?

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Celeste wrote:No, Lorikeet- I too read ALL the posts. I was interested in the advertised product the first time I read the post, and clicked on the link. Now that I have seen the post umpteen times, I am turned off and will not buy the product.

Is this forum moderated? Any chance of having these posts removed?

Iain