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Using Penguin Active Reading in the Classroom: Free Resources for Teachers
Tara Maceyak, Marketing
Manager
Penguin Active
Reading is an exciting series that provides
reading and
language learning through full-color, beautifully illustrated readers.
In addition to enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range
of
integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and teach
vocabulary. Each book is supported by an interactive CD-ROM that
contains additional activities and the complete audio recording.
Each book and CD-ROM offer the following types of exercises:
Before
Reading
- What's the book about?
Pre-reading activities get students interested and help them to think
about the topic or story.
- What happens first?
Pre-reading activities also develop prediction skills.
- Introductory sentences draw
students into the story/text and get them to think about what might
happen next.
- Were you right?
Check your students' prediction skills with these quick and easy
activities.
- What more did you learn?
Comprehension activities help students consolidate what they've
read.
- Language in use offers
practice in the key grammar structures.
- What's next?
Students are encouraged to think creatively and so look ahead.
After
Reading
- Talk about it
encourages students to discuss the plot, themes and main characters
from the book.
- Write about it allows
students to demonstrate their understanding of the book, as well as
their knowledge of important vocabulary.
Take a
Look at a Sample
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersberg to Cairo.
Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They have a lot of
adventures on the river. They meet a king! But is he real? Huck soon
finds out the truth.
- Get a complete list of Penguin Active
Readers and Penguin Readers
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