Testing for Content in an Intensive Reading Lesson

THE core of every complete lesson in intensive reading should be silent reading and study of the text by the students, followed by intensive testing for content on the part of the teacher. Preliminary clearing up of difficulties both verbal and grammatical, and oral reading of the text by the teacher with students' books closed, pave the way for silent reading and study of the text, but cannot take its place. It is during the silent reading that the student is really learning how to read. However, this silent reading and study of the text cannot be done in a haphazard manner. The teacher cannot simply say to his class after his model reading: Now read and study the text in silence. It is just as necessary for the teacher to motivate the silent reading as it is necessary for him to motivate the lesson as a whole. He must tell the students what they are to look for, what they will be expected to do, or what they will be expected to know, after they have read and studied the text. They must be given a definite amount of time to accomplish the aim which is set in the reading of any particular passage

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