what are the best prereading activities for tsl?
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I like my students to use underline note-taking strategies, like characters of the book get one line, new vocab words get a double line, etc. Good Luck!
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Reading--in spare time--or for a book report--as long as the book or topic was MY CHOICE! Writing, spelling, vocabulary, English...that kinda thing! :o)\n\nOh yah!!! And, can't forget American Sign Language and Psychology!!! :-D
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Have a cup of tea and relax with a good book. Surely you can take 20 min and do that before you finish your work.
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Each day, read 14 pages an hour for 10 hour.  Then spend 1 hour writing an outline of the pages you just read.  Repeat for 3 days.  Then summarize the combined outlines and flesh it out into a 5-page report.\n\nOr, you can hang around the internet looking for shortcuts.
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Try the Educator's Reference Desk
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you need to be more specific\n\neach age group langauage activities are different from the very young 2s something as simple as on/off to pre k beginning studies of letters and more advanced opposites to prereading skills
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Honestly, Read no less than 100 pages per day, every day. Write a review of what you have read. If you are reading a news article, write arguments for both sides. The other thing is to get a Black's Law Dictionary. Memorize 20 terms from it each day. Critical reading, and writing are absolutely necessary. The less time you spend looking up terms, the faster your studies will be (hence memorizing them ahead of time).
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As a former teacher trainer in Asia,\n\nGotta set up a routine for you lesson. Let's say you have young ones, start with a song/chant, and then into your "grammar/language" lesson (the crappy books they give you to follow). Seatwork (appropriate for the level). Then end it off with a story. You can ask simple questions for the story, "Find something red. What page was the boy eating the ice cream?" Always good to add a few language games into your lesson. One simple game is for two students with swatters to hit the correct vocab card. Plain, but better than repeating the words. You can make up a whole bunch of language games. Try bingo, but with pics of vocab. Play Simon Says.\n\nI find when I was teachign ESL, my greatest problem and my teachers' greatest problem was the lack of resources. Here is a site: http://www.readinga-z.com/\n\nBuy a $50 yearly member ship and download the books. Get your school to pay for you. This will provide you with 100s of reading activities for ALL levels!
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Here is a site with MANY links to preK activities and worksheets:\nhttp://www.prekfun.com/Index_Page/CCInformativeLinks/printablepages.htm\n\nDLTK has many crafts, activities, and worksheets:\nhttp://www.dltk-teach.com/\n\nFirst School has a ton of stuff:\nhttp://www.first-school.ws/\n\nKidzone is also a multi-useful multi-grade (including preK) resources  Which I have used a great deal:\nhttp://www.kidzone.ws/\nOr go directly to the preschool section http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/index.htm\n\nI LOVE Starfall for beginning phonics and reading activities and practice:\nhttp://www.starfall.com/\n\nI haven't tried these, but they have many subjects and activities for preK\nhttp://tlsbooks.com/preschoolworksheets.htm\n\nBryback manor is pretty good:\nhttp://www.bry-backmanor.org/activitypages.html\n\nalso some others I haven't reviewed, but have bookmarked:\nhttp://www.beginningreading.com/Free%20Workshe.html\nhttp://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/\nhttp://www.onlineworksheets.org/worksheet.htm\nhttp://www.kiddyhouse.com/Worksheets/\nhttp://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/gallery.html\nhttp://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/worksheets.html\n\nI hope some of these are helpful!
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Weather reports\nStock reports\nNews stories\nTo do lists\nDaily schedules\nDaily devotions\nBlue plate specials\nFood diary\nWake and sleep times
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Lots of reading, not just books, but newspapers too.  Be sure to look up any words you don't know if you cannot derive the meaning from context.   Also I find crossword puzzles are a great way to build your vocabulary, because it has you thinking of the alternate meanings of words and phrases.
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Well get 2 pieces of Cardboard paper,the lined paper to help them write, on the top write- " 2nd grade reading log" and then if you want to spice things up to close it- make sure you put it the way of like a notebook and then hole punch it and then take string and pipe cleaners and then close it.(If you know what I mean) and keep doing that for everyone. Then at school tell them to decorate the front page as pretty as they want it!!- Hope that helped!
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I would use an informal reading inventory (IRI). Many of them are available. I use the Jennings IRI, here is a link so that you can download it. http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_jennings_readprobs_5\n\nIRI's are great because it assess comprehension as well as speed. If you see that a student is taking a long time reading you can guess that they are not decoding well. This IRI will help you find an approximate level for the student's reading ability and show you where to focus your instruction.
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I'm fond of Scrabble.  The ESL site below has other suggestions.\n\nI also find that learning songs is a great way to learn the rhythms and patterns of a language.  When I was learning Spanish, French and later Hebrew - I sought out songs like "Eensy Weensy Spider."  It's amazing how indelible those songs are - even when I haven't sung them for years.
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Maybe try Microsoft Reader.
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1. read english books (novel, tales,etc)\n2. Listen to the english song and SING it!\n3. Watch English version movies\n4. Speak regularly to your friend using english.\n5. Sleep well the night before your test day.
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My favorite is One Stop English. They have lots of lesson plans, teaching ideas, grammar information and more.