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MODULE 1, MODULE2 AND
MODULE 3
SUBMITTED BY:
PALAK RANPURA
MOMINA GHAYAS
SHWETA CHOUDHARY
BHAGYALAXMI
UMAPATHY
AMAN VASHISHT
B.ARCH SEM-5 SEC-B
MODULE 1
READING COMPREHENSION
Reading comprehension is the act of understanding what you are reading. While
the definition can be simply stated the act is not simple to teach, learn or
practice. Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process
that occurs before, during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing.
Reading comprehension is one of the pillars of the act of reading. There are two
elements that make up the process of reading comprehension: vocabulary
knowledge and text comprehension. In order to understand a text the reader
must be able to comprehend the vocabulary used in the piece of writing. If the
individual words dont make the sense then the overall story will not either.
IMPORTANCE
Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce
it to the main points for more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage,
summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate
important details that support them. It is a technique that enables students to
focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and
remembering.
Writing a good summary is not as easy as it may appear. It actually requires
quite a bit of finesse. First the student must read and comprehend the text. This
may involve unpacking lengthy sentences and decoding challenging
vocabulary. Then they must identify main ideas and key points, which means
that they must have a good enough understanding of the text to distinguish
between essential and nonessential information. Finally they must express this
information in their own words. This means that summarizing a text requires
both comprehension and expression skills.
STRATEGY
MODULE 2
ESSAY WRITING
An essay is a piece of writing that methodically analyses and evaluates a topic
or issue. Fundamentally, an essay is designed to get your academic opinion on a
particular matter.
Writing a great essay is not about simply surveying and re-telling existing ideas.
Instead, a good essay takes into account various opinions and points of view
and puts forward an argument that reflects the writer's informed opinion.
Before you begin planning any essay, then, its crucial to have a clear idea of
what you think about your topic; you need to have a position, argument, or clear
stance on a topic, that you defend with evidence and argument
Types of Essays
material through essay writing. Essays serve as a tool to test the students'
knowledge by assessing their arguments, analyses, and specific
examples, as well as the conclusions they draw regarding the material
covered in the course.
WRITING EMAILS
Messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or
more recipients via a network.
Techniques to effective email writing:
MODULE 3
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
1. Group Work- This could be through partners or cooperative groups. Group
work provides frequent opportunities to communicate, to share observations
and insights, test hypotheses, and jointly construct knowledge. In this method,
people of different linguistic and educational backgrounds and different skill
levels work together on a common task for a common goal in the language.
Depending on their language proficiency, they can be assigned various roles as
facilitator, recorder, reporter, or illustrator.
2. Use of Graphic Organizers- Graphic organizers are an instructional tool
that visually organizes and presents information so that it can be understood,
remembered, and applied. Graphs, concept maps, concept webs, KWL charts,
tables, maps, flow charts, timelines can be used.
3. Activation of Prior Knowledge- Connect learning objectives to the
students' background experiences and knowledge. Students can be expected to
share their prior knowledge through short verbal responses or by making a
nonverbal choice from pictures or real. This can be done by simply asking
students what they already know about a subject. It can also be done through
discussions, creating visuals like 'semantic webs', language experience stories,
or free-writing on a topic. The key is to engage students in making connections
between what they are learning in class and their own interests and
experiences.
4. Use of Academic Language Scaffolding- Language Scaffolding is a stepby-step process of building students' ability to complete tasks on their own.
Students identify science vocabulary by participating in an introductory activity.
Scaffolding consists of several strategies used in conjunction to "shelter"
curriculum content for ELLs. These strategies include modelling the use of
academic or technical language; contextualizing academic or technical
language through the use of visuals, gestures, graphic organizers, and
demonstrations; and using hands-on learning activities that involve the use of
academic or technical language.
5. Context Clues through Visual Scaffolding- The teacher uses concurrent
verbal explanation and physical demonstration of directions or concepts by
using gestures, visuals, and demonstrations while giving directions. Gestures or
actions in addition to graphs, visuals and other props can be used to
communicate meanings.
6. Task-based or Experiential Learning.-This provides appropriate contexts
for developing thinking and study skills as well as language and academic
concepts for students of different levels of language proficiency. Students learn
by carrying out specific tasks or projects: for example, "doing science" and not
just reading about it.
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