May 15th, 2014
This week the lesson began with checking homework. There
was a reading passage and the students read it aloud one by one. They were
supposed to listen to their friends because a student should continue reading
when someone stopped. Teachers use this method for centuries and I don’t know
why. It isn’t meaningful. When students follow their friends, they cannot focus
on the meaning and they can’t catch all the details. Apart from that, the
comprehension questions were well-prepared: Multiple choice questions and cloze
tests. I really believe that cloze tests are effective in learning. They can be
a bit challenging because any word can be a question. Also, there were some
referential questions in the worksheet. (What does “them” refer to in para/
line …?) I got surprised a little bit because I didn’t know that they ask this
kind of questions in 4th graders but I am happy about it.
Referential questions are a good way of measuring students’ understanding of
the text. It can be really important to know the agents of actions in some
contexts.
They did the same writing activity. She wrote ten
questions on the board. Since they will have an exam next week, they try to
develop the students’ writing skills. I didn’t understand why they did the same
activity twice but I think it is going to be the exam question. They don’t
write too much. The main focus is always grammar unlike secondary school in
METU College.
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