Technology for Reading
Teaching reading for English learners can be through using the technology that is available. It can be a website of software. It depends on how the teacher manages the technology. Using technology (website or software) can help the teacher to teach the students. It can change the common way of teaching reading which is by reading a text. It can also make the students interested in reading. Using technology also can make learning activity better as the technology provides lots of interactive features for the users.
1. Comic life
This is software to create a comic. The teacher can use this to create reading materials in form of a comic. It can attract students’ attention rather than reading a full of text.
2. Rewordify
This website allows students to copy their reading text. Then, this website analyzes the text, looking for words and phrases that may be difficult to understand. Once the site locates difficult or problematic language, it replaces it with simpler words to aid students’ understanding.
This website allows students to use a text-leveling tool similar to the one found on Rewordify.com. Students can select a text that they have a hard time understanding, and the Web browser extension will identify and replace difficult words with simpler ones. The level of linguistic complexity can be adjusted in the Options tab.
4. Newsela
This is a website that publishes current events articles each day on a variety of topics pertaining to most school subjects. Every article has five versions, each written for students at different reading levels. After a student reads the version that matches her skill level, she can take corresponding quizzes to test her knowledge.
5. Read with Me
Read with Me is a web platform that for monitoring oral reading progress on any web device. It provides students with practice fluency at home on any web device and to keep track of miscues. They can also use it to record and listen to their own reading.
The example of the use comic life for reading activity in the classroom
This is the example of using comic life for teaching reading. In this comic, the creator designed this comic for reading descriptive text.
REFLECTION DURING TELL CLASS
From TELL class, I learned that in choosing the materials or designing the materials from the website for learning purpose, the teacher should consider the language use of the materials. whether it is already appropriate for your students or not. In that class, I also learned that the teacher can use an authentic website for reading activity. For instance, news website and so on. it is good so the students can learn English from the real native work. However. we also should consider the content of the materials that we take from the website, as we have a different culture.
all the knowledge that I get in TELL class in topic teaching reading with technology is really useful for me as the teacher candidate. It gives me some knowledge that when we teach reading which is mostly as a boring activity, but we can make it fun by maximizing the use of technology for reading purpose
This is the example of using comic life for teaching reading. In this comic, the creator designed this comic for reading descriptive text.
REFLECTION DURING TELL CLASS
From TELL class, I learned that in choosing the materials or designing the materials from the website for learning purpose, the teacher should consider the language use of the materials. whether it is already appropriate for your students or not. In that class, I also learned that the teacher can use an authentic website for reading activity. For instance, news website and so on. it is good so the students can learn English from the real native work. However. we also should consider the content of the materials that we take from the website, as we have a different culture.
all the knowledge that I get in TELL class in topic teaching reading with technology is really useful for me as the teacher candidate. It gives me some knowledge that when we teach reading which is mostly as a boring activity, but we can make it fun by maximizing the use of technology for reading purpose
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