There are several techniques for teaching writing and reading as we heard from our

professional teachers. These are some of the ideas they mentioned at the meeting.

Writing

- Brainstorm ideas
- Planning
- Outlining
- Focus on one technique as punctuation
- Writing can be taught through reading. Students identify the topic sentence and their
supporting sentences.
- Summarize the text using the main ideas
- Summarize a paragraph(s)
- Paraphrasing
- Write about topics that have been discussed
- Group writing could be done
- Format of writing (Title, indent )
- Dont correct all the mistakes. Have students figure them out.
- Write or photocopy the mistakes and discuss in groups

Reading

- Skim / scan
- Identify the main idea and supporting ideas
- Scan for relevant information
- Read for details
- Inference
- Understanding figurative language
- Guessing meaning (vocabulary) through context
- Asking comprehension questions
- Order the events
- Jigsaw reading
- Match words to meanings
- Multiple choice questions
- True- False No information questions
- Gap filling
- Summarize paragraph (s)
- Match headings to paragraphs
- Read for a reason
- Dont read out loud ( unless its for pronunciation)