Group : 2

Name : Cheong Ye Teng

Reflection on Reading
Within my 8 years of teaching experience, I never noticed about the stages in
teaching reading. My way of teaching reading is throw a text for my pupils, guide them to
read, introduce new vocabularies, explain the meaning of the context, answer
comprehension questions and discuss the answers. During this week session, I had
learnt about the three stages of teaching reading: pre-reading, while reading and post
reading. However, I am really confused with these three stages at first. For me, they are
just the same. The activities to be conducted in these stages can be overlapped each
other.
In pre-reading stage, pupils should not be reading any text yet. I had learnt the
activities that can be done in this stage. For example, introduce and teach pupils the
new and difficult vocabularies from the text. I think this is crucial for my pupils because
most of my pupils are lack of vocabularies and have low English proficiency. Besides,
the activity that caught my attention is showing pupils the cover and title of the book and
ask pupils to talk about them. I believe that from this activity, pupils will have an overall
idea about the whole text that will be introduce in the next stage. These are the activities
I think are suitable and doable in my classroom.
It is all about reading in while reading stage. One of the activity that I think is fun
and catchy is predicting on the story Roro Jongrang. I will definitely use this method in
my classroom in the future because this will get pupils attention to the fullest and arouse
their interest in reading. However, I leant that the method which I had used for years in
teaching reading is inappropriate, where I asked the whole class to read aloud the text
from the beginning to the end non-stop. I should ask pupils to read the text silently as for
them to go through the whole text first where skimming and scanning takes place. Then
only let pupils to read aloud the text by one paragraph to another. This is for me to
explain the meaning of the paragraph, make sure my pupils really understand it and then
proceed to the next paragraph. As consolidation, I may divide pupils into groups, and the

groups will take turn to read the text by paragraph. This is to avoid boringness in reading
the whole text at once.
The final stage is post reading. This is where pupils understanding about the
text comes in. I learnt to do assessment at this stage by various type of activities such as
comprehension

questions,

Wh-questions,

information

transfer,

sequencing

and

predicting, creating a scrapbook, producing a poster etc. Moreover, there should be a

linkage from reading to writing. Thus, activities such as producing scrapbook or poster
can be done so that pupils may continue the activities in pre-writing stage later.
Modern technologies nowadays distract peoples (especially young generations)
attention from reading, they tend to spend more time on social media and online games.
Therefore, it is important for us educators to arouse pupils interest to read as through
reading, they will gain knowledge and learn the language.