Short Story:

An orange cat is walking around a garden, suddenly he sees a blue bird on the tree singing beautifully. The cat likes her song, he started singing along. After that, the cat feels hungry. He says goodbye to the bird and goes home. When he reaches home, he is so happy because he sees a bowl of his favorite Friskies. He eats them hastily. Now he is sleepy, he goes into the hall to have a nice nap.

1. They think in concrete integrated way

7. Malaysian children have zero English when they come to school

Character of Youngsters

Strategies for beginning readers

1. They think in concrete integrated way 2. Have short attention spans, get bored easily

To include broader context by putting together the element of listening, speaking & writing, physical activity, singing. -the need of reading will come naturally

Provide variety of activities to keep them attentive: Physical activity, stand up, come in front class, some read, some listen, read out loud together

Begin reading instruction first, for them to read the simple text. Introduce words in the story not in isolation, make them understand the words.

Use play techniques in teaching whenever possible

Let them see, hear and say a word at the same time. Let them see the picture, hear the name being said, & see it written down. The spoken n written form can be acquired altogether

Provide them with opportunities to learn to love reading, by giving the chance to satisfy their curiosity about the world tru the reading material you give them to read

7. Malaysian children have zero English when they come to school

Give a lot of audio-visual support, make them familiar with the sound and words. By putting facial expressions, your voice and gesture to them to understand the story. Allow them to express their difficulties by some non-verbal way; by acting, drawing or doing

Create an environment to support the learning to read; label everything in classroom, keep attractive books for them to read, Pin up bulletin about pupils in class; Musa has a new baby sister Pin up instruction; Next Sunday we are going to do

Strategies for Beginning and Developing Readers

Ask for their personal reactions to the content of text

Set projects require reading in English

Give materials of immediate relevance to their lives

Characteristic: -Pupils do not see the relevance of readingpoor motivation to read -unable to work towards future needsneed immediate satisfaction

Devise activities that are interesting in themselves

Create activities that show the usefulness of reading in English

Promote integrated learning

Set a purpose of reading

Time the activities pupils pace their reading efficiently.

Characteristic: -pupils only see reading materials that are in class. - Pupils read real text same as reading intensive materials.

Vary the kinds of material given pupils realise that different matrerials need to be read differently