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(This posting includes handouts which you are welcome to use with your students.)
• 8th Free Reading Unit. Scarcity: Not Having Enough of Something (can effect mental capacity)
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Category Archives: *ESL Reading Units Free
• Quick and User-Friendly Technique to Teach Summarize Skills of a Reading Passage
The teacher was feeling a bit overwhelmed. He was assigned a Reading course in which summarizing was one of the goals. Where to start? A colleague suggested a rather arduous process of having students identifying and clarifying the topic of the passage. This would be followed by techniques for finding the most important point the author was making for each paragraph. Then they would practice how to identify supporting points. They would practice recognizing key word and practice paraphrasing those. And on and on.
All those steps above are totally unnecessary.
The easy summarizing-skill technique
Here is the basis for this technique: We always have a reason for summarizing specific information from an article. (In real life, and even mainstream academic courses, are we ever asked to just summarize everything in an article?)
Examples of the technique
• 7th Free ESL Reading Unit. Experiencing Discrimination
*(This posting includes handouts which you are welcome to use with your students.)
See Select Category > ESL Reading Units Free: Reading for Insights (Introduction) for an introduction to these reading units. Reading Units: Reading for Insights (Introduction)
Article, Study Guide and Answer Key for Experiencing Discrimination (and more excerpts)
• Smiling and Eye-Contact Behind Your Mask Has Benefits For You, Your Students And Even Strangers
*(This posting includes a handout which you are welcome to use with your students.)
These days when I go for a run with my mask on, I find myself falling out of a habit that I had had pre-pandemic: smiling at other runners and walkers on the trails. With the mask covering my mouth, a smile seemed silly.
However, neuroscience researchers say–No, it’s not silly. In fact, a smile, even if it is unseen, can have a positive effect on our emotions and on those people whom we are smiling at.
As our campuses slowly open up to more face-to-face contact with colleagues, students and others we come across while still wearing masks, we’ll have opportunities to increase a feeling of connectedness and well-being with just a little effort behind our masks.
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