DRAMA: Reading

For my reading activity I chose the book "Spot can count" from Eric Hill.

It is a really simple and easy book but I preferred it because it was the first time I was going to be in front of a class reading a story in English, so I decided to choose an story that make me feel confident about myself and my possibilities.

To begin I started asking the childrens some questions about the cover:

What can you see in the cover?

Can you count?

Where do you think the story is going to happen? --> making predictions.

After that, I start reading the story but I just read the questions, and each time I told one different children to tell me the answer. I was trying to encourage them to take part in the storytelling.

Obviously for my classmates was really easy and for sure it was a little bit boring, but for very young learners (as my students are going to be) I think it is a really useful book to practise the numbers and how to count.

In this story the same structure is repeated ("How many") so it will be easy for the children to learn it.

An easy story like this one will motivate the children with the learning of second language cause they will feel confident about knowing the answer and this is really positive for them. Another reason why I choose thi story was that the vocabulary the book works it is really basic for young learners: numbers and animals. Children love animals and they like to know their names, the sounds they make, where do they live... So the contents in the book were appropriated for them.