Current Trends in

Teaching English
Lean Ross D. Batuigas
 Annotating a Text
-to make or furnish
critical or explanatory
notes or comments
Steps on Annotating a Text
1. Pick up a pencil, a pen, or a
post-it.
2. Read everything at least twice.
The first time, read quickly to get a
sense of what the text is about.
Mark anything that you think
is:
*confusing
*interesting
*surprising
*important
3. Begin to annotate.

A. Circle, underline, or stick o n a post-it for important

ideas and explain their significance.
B. Mark repetitions or rhetorical signals.
Circle confusing words or phrases.
C. Define from context or dictionary if possible.
D. Note passages that seem inconsistent.
E. Note passages that generate a strong positive or
negative response.
4. Write questions where you made annotations.

These questions can be for the instructor to answer,

for the class to discuss, for you to use in future
writing assignments, or for you to keep as a
reminder of what you were thinking.
  
5. Think about the connections between this text
and other texts you have read, information from
other classes, and personal experiences.
Developing Oral
Reading Fluency
Research-based instructional practices can be
used to build oral reading fluency for struggling
readers:
1. Repeated Reading: students are asked to
read short and meaningful passages until the
desired level of fluency is achieved for that
passage. Students should be timed and
receive systematic, corrective feedback from
their teacher during repeated reading.
2. Peer-assisted learning strategies:
two students are paired together and
asked to play the role of either the coach
or the student. When the “student” reads,
the “coach” listens and provides
corrective feedback.
3. Tape-assisted reading: students are asked to
read a passage along with an audio-recording of
the passage. Students may perform this task
with a teacher or independently.
4. Slide and Glide: the teacher reads the first
portion of a sentence and then the student
finishes the sentence. This process is repeated
throughout an entire passage.
Oral Reading Fluency Activity
The class will be divided into groups of three
members each.
One member will be asked to read the given
text aloud with proper pausing and phrasing.
 Each member of the group will be asked to
answer a question regarding the text.
Gamification
Learn Language with Ruby Rei
(Wibbu)
-Plunges the learners into an
interactive adventure game. They
have to use their language skills to
negotiate, collaborate and build
friendships in order to escape from
a forgotten planet at the edge of the
universe.