另一方面我实在舍不得放弃哈考特的分级阅读,所以每天仍然刷几课。G1 的 reading 已经刷完,这几天在刷science reading,已经刷了一半。今天看了几篇还真是有点感慨。比如讲人们的工作时,讲 .... Others have jobs at home. 配的图是给宝宝喂奶。这说明他们从小就认可抚养孩子是一项工作。这与中国的现状是不同的。中国从古时候就认为学问是天大的事情,家庭都是鸡毛蒜皮不值得一提。有了所谓学问,就一白遮百丑,样样都是好了。直到今天仍然有很多人不把家庭再生产当作一项工作(其实我现在越来越觉得这项工作才是人生最重要的,其他什么功名都是浮云)。所以会有很多男人有了家庭有了孩子还沉溺于游乐或游戏,甚至觉得老婆孩子是他游乐人生的负担。我觉得这是所谓中国传统文化的耻辱。
G1的阅读材料我之所以把science放在最后,是因为这一部分难度参差不齐,难度大的像前面提到的 all about snakes, 已经不太受一年级普通阅读水平的限制了。而且有些科普读物是教科书形式,不如故事那么有趣,总有些枯燥。刷的速度进展很慢。reading部分一天可以刷10多课,现在每天最多只能刷5课。。。。。。昨天休息,只看了一课就再不想刷了。宁愿去玩。。。。。。。。今天想想昨天,忍耐又忍耐,强迫自己刷了四课。数了数,还有30多课。。下周看来是可以完成G1的阅读了。
经过不情不愿的一天看一课,也经过疯狂的每天刷10多课。。。终于看完一年级的240多本阅读了。能力的增长没觉得有多大,但也是感觉到的。从开始第一次碰到a liquid, a gas 的疑惑不解,到群里问学友,到网上问国外学生。然后在科学阅读里发现大量的这种例子。现在已经对这种用法见怪不怪习以为常。还有其他很多单数复数的运用。这也证明了语感来自于大量的阅读及应用(绝大部分非母语学习者应用量根本不够,基本只能靠阅读了)。
我总是从阅读的below-level 开始刷,这样按从易到难的顺序走比较舒服一点。今天刷了10课,就碰到了两篇 readers’ theater。为了弄懂这个新体裁,查了一些资料,才发现这种有趣而简易的小剧场形式已经很流行了。台湾的英语教育机构把它作为学员活动的一种重要形式会经常开展。下面给大家分享一个比较详细的介绍。
What Is RT? ---------- By Aaron Shepard
Reader’s theater is minimal theater in support of literature and reading. There are many styles of reader’s theater, but nearly all share these features:
Narration serves as the framework of dramatic presentation.
No full stage sets. If used at all, sets are simple and suggestive.
No full costumes. If used at all, costumes are partial and suggestive, or neutral and uniform.
No full memorization. Scripts are used openly in performance.
Reader’s theater was developed as an efficient and effective way to present literature in dramatic form. Today as well, most scripts are literary adaptations, though others are original dramatic works.
Popular first in colleges and universities, reader’s theater has now moved to earlier education, where it is seen as a key tool for creating interest and skill in reading. Young people love to do it, and they give it their all—more so because it’s a team effort, and they don’t want to let down their friends! Repeated readings bring fluency, and if a script is based on an available book, kids want to read that too. What’s more, reader’s theater is a relatively simple activity for the teacher, with no required setup other than making copies of scripts.
Reader’s theater has been found effective not only for language arts but for social studies as well. Performing stories based on another culture is one of the best ways for students to become interested in and familiar with that culture.
这周进行的是G2 READING的 on-level 部分。分级读物写的好,那么词汇的引入是渐进的,读者接受也是不知不觉的。一些常用动词就是在相近的几课中重复应用,比如说除了我们都会用的say, 还有exclaim, gasp, state, announce 等等很多。在对话比较多的故事里重复用,读者就不知不觉会了。但是还是有一堆生词扑向你的时候,比如: Playing in an Orchestra 里面很多种乐器的名字,让我感到原来底子不够用,要恶记一阵才行。(这次就是为了复习这一篇特意写笔记的,哈哈)