REFLECTION In the fifth semester, I have been exposed to Story for Young Learners.

Through learning, I have learned a lot of knowledge about how to teach students to present the storytelling effectively. Using the way you have been taught, I have found my students increasingly understand what they have read and their vocabulary increases. This is a start that is amazing. I express my thanks to Mr Ganesan to have a lot to teach us. For as long as I seek knowledge from him, it motivated me to become English teachers at my school very well. This is because; he taught many techniques attract my interest to practice to my students at school. I have got a wealth of experience during his teaching. Although our meeting with Mr Ganesan is only 10 hours, but we can get many information trough his lesson. In my lesson, making storytelling is to teaching students how to understand it. Although I understand this concept, it is difficult for me to put this notion into practice. But, it provided us some tips or techniques such as the use of role play or mapping to teach reading comprehension. When completing the role play, students can construct the meaning of the story or article by analyzing the content. The top-down process of teaching reading is aimed to develop student as active readers, rather than merely listening to the teacher explaining the reading message. Besides the reading materials given, students can complete the fish bone with their own experience and in the following activity write their own stories. The integration of reading and writing skills facilitates students development of English proficiency more quickly. I can hardly recall all the details. What I remembered is that each student read out one sentence of the article and after that the teacher explained the content of the article. The disadvantage of this way to teach reading is that students only paid attention to the particular sentence they were participate for. This was not the real purpose of reading. I agreed with Yeohs advice that the teacher could give time for students to read the article silently even though they might face some challenge or difficulty in the process of reading. To solve the problem of reading difficulty to certain students, some training of

reading strategies is necessary. For example, the teacher can introduce how to skim and scan, how to look for key words, and how to take notes or highlight. I think students will benefit a lot from using these reading strategies. In this semester we were given an assignment to find articles related to the types of the story, what a problem to us is quite like to get articles through newspapers and magazines. But with the sophistication of the technology, we can also access and download the materials in the form of newspaper and magazine clippings related to the topic. When the material was able, I started drawing to make graphic organizer for every article I have read. Although some what complicated I can also finish my task successfully. On the next interaction, we have been given a task to build teaching kits for reading skills as the main focus and how to present the story. In my class, we have developed activities that will be used throughout the teaching and learning process later. What is more challenging is the task to record our teaching in the classroom with the use of materials and the same lesson plan. Fortunately I have a very good group of friends. We compliment each other. We communicate trough e-mail, Skype and phone to settle up this micro-teaching. Lastly, after complete the microteaching, I find the big trouble to burn my microteaching video in the CD. I dont know how to change the FLV format to MPEG format. With this big trouble I have learn one new thing. Now I can burn the video to CD without any problem after my husband show the technique to convert the FLV to MP3. This experience was much bit but the production is very sweet. I hope I can use all of my knowledge for my student at my school. Thanks for everyone have much helping me to finish my task and settle up my problems. A special thanks to Mr Ganesan, without you Ive got nothing.