Lesson Plans

Sharing... that what its all about...

Kindly post your lesson plan here so that we can pool our expertise and put it into good use. Its also good as it gives you some ownership of it so that the other batch of the course will have to quote you as a reference...if they decide to copy or improvise yours...

Check out Asri's!

Amiza and friends emailed me their materials for the vocabulary activities..

Reflection time!!

its wrapping up session...

my fellow coursemates are rather quiet this evening. They are cracking their heads on the reflection...hehe

The reflection needs to answer some of these questions

1. What have I learnt?
2. What changes can I make in my classroom?
3. What do I find most useful in this course? Wny?
4. What challenges did I face in this phase?
5. How useful were the resources?

Ok... Have fun!

Problems of teaching reading in the classroom

The teachers highlighted some of the problems and challenges they encounter in their reading classroom. The problems are identified in order to understand and reflect on their teaching practices.

1. Limited vocabularies
2. Lack of interest in reading
3. Poor background knowledge
4. Students' proficiency level
5. Lack of prior knowledge on the reading topic
6. Low confidence level
7. Poor learning strategies
8. Students' attitude such as laziness, high dependency on the teacher's input
9. Pronunciation
10. Linguistic deficiency-problems in understanding



Norlida, Asliza, Suraya and Norazilawati claimed that teachers' limited time in preparing the lesson plan also one of the contributing problem to their reading classroom. Other weaknesses highlighted on the teacher's part are inappropriate materials selection and limited interaction with the students.

Anisah and the guys also mentioned a controversial statement-students understanding are exam oriented.. hmm...do i got it right? Danger...its war zone if we are talking about our exam oriented culture..

Working with Words part 2

Read, read and read...the task for today. Hopefully everybody is up to it. The module look into Allen's work in his book rather extensive.

This evening, there will be presentation by the teachers. Hopefully they can put up their vocabulary activity on this blog...

Remember to write your group members name so that the Oscar wont go to somebody else! ;-)

Working with Words in the Reading Classroom

The Phase Two has just begun...

29 English Language (EL) teachers from the Secondary school in Perlis will undergo a three day course starting today...

Many more will later involve in this course in the future.

This blog is set up to accommodate information regarding this course, materials and feedback from the participants.

The morning session started with reflection on the teacher's teaching practices in their reading classroom...having done that, changes are outlined in hope of a conducive reading classroom.



The session move on for the teaching of reading with the focus on vocabulary. The teachers identified the importance of teaching vocabulary and look into some issues in teaching vocabulary.

To be continued...