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CONTEXT SUPPORT APPROACH
Context support approach reflects “Having a situation or aids,
which can help the students to read.”
Things to consider when using context Approach
• When your students are just learning to read it is important to
choose books that really interest them.
• If boys like cars; choose a book with pictures and simple
words about cars. This will keep their interest and enjoy their
learning with you.
• If girls like dolls obtain books with doll pictures and simple
words .This will encourage them enthuathism because they
are actually looking at something they can relate to.
• Some books are especially written to support this method of
learning.
• You will find a long sentence on one side of the page while the
other side has a single word or maybe two to three words for
your students to read. You will read the longer sentence while
your students read the simple version.
CONT….
• You may like to try this method of long and short text or
maybe combine it with one or all of the other methods
above.
• Give students chance to read regularly.
• Give the student time to browse through a book before
attempting to read it.
• Show confidence in your students ‘ability to read. Lack of
confidence may affect the students’ ability to read.
• Don’t tell your child you are worried of his or her reading
progress. This will only increase your Childs’ problem.
Discuss with your partner, school, home, parent for advice.
• Give your child /students chance to read to parents, aunt,
and friend (public) .This could make a big difference with
your child’s confidence to read.
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CONT…..
• Don’t expect too much too soon
• Don’t push too hard for immediate results it
takes time
• Provide opportunities for your child to write
some words e.g.; shopping lists, names of
their friends and their relatives on top of the
letter or on bottom of the letters or cards you
made you have written
Cont…..
• Use easy books to encourage your child’s
abilities, make sure it is not too easy or you
will undermine your child’s confidence with
him/her.
• Make sure that your child’s hearing or eyesight
are okay otherwise will cause reading
problem.
• Those with hearing and eyesight problems
should be taken to a doctor to seek advice.
Translation game
Explain how you are going to use context supports
approach when teaching reading;
• Use of pictures –sentence card ,words in relation
to the pictures
• Use real object
• Use of letters and cards –write their names in the
letters.
• Prepare brief statements of words.
• Give it to your students to read to their parents.
THE USE OF GAMES:
• Give students word cards with reading games
• Flash cards game
• An elementary reading game, to be played in
pairs.
• Students arranged in pairs, facing each other.
• Each student has one card .On the card is a list of
words, some of which have an X next to them.
This means the student must read out the word
.His partner decides whether the word he has on
his /her card is the same or different.
STUDENT A
STUDENT B
1.Dog x
1.Boy
2.School x
2.School x
3.Blackboard x
3.Blackboardx
4.Mouth x
4.House x
5.Car x
5.Car
6.Cat x
6.Hat x
7.glass x
7.Glass x
CONT….
• To play this game properly, the teacher has to
guide the students to read in different series;
that if the student A read the first word, the
student B has to read second word in his or
her card.
Describe and arrange
• The words written in a card; pictures related
to those words are also prepared in a cards or
boards.
• Students have to describe the pictures first
then the teacher shows the students the
words to read; after that a teacher has to tell
the students to match sentence card-picture.
• Prepare examples of sentence card –pictures
and explain how are you going to use.
Jigsaw pictures/text game
• Here you need a piece of strong card but one
which can be easily cut up into Jigsaw shapes.
Stick a picture from a poster or calendar on
one side of the card and text on the other side
of the card .Finally, it can be cut into Jigsaw
shapes .If the picture and the text are
connected and are on a subject of interest to
the students, then it can be a highly
motivating game for a low ability students.
Task
• Prepare a jigsaw cards then explain how are
you going to use it when teaching reading.
Translation game
• For this you will need two texts, one which is
the translation of the other.
• The English version is cut up into paragraphs
or individual sentences and stuck onto card.
• The L1 (for Tanzanian students, use Kiswahili)
text is kept whole and used as a model to
reconstitute the English version.
• A source of text of this type is tourists’
information
Flashcard game
• The teacher needs pieces of cards with various
commands written on them. Draw cards
• Point to me
• Pick up your bag
• Sit down
Cont….
• One student stands behind the teacher, the
teacher holds up the flash cards to show the
rest of the class, who then have to obey
command written on flashcard.
• The student standing behind the teacher has
guessed the exact words written on the card..
MATCHING GAMES
• The idea here is for students to make up
complete recipes by matching the right title
and ingredient to the right instructions.
• Cut up three or four recipes into the three
sections and past them on cards. What other
things apart from recipes could your students
match.
• Remember they do not necessarily need to
match words but you could also have a game
which requires matching words to pictures.
CONCLUSION
• Once pupils have begun reading in English,
you should encourage them to read as much
as possible. Reading is an enjoyable way of
learning language and you will find that the
children learn a lot new words and more
accurate in their use of structures if they read
regularly. The teacher therefore has to
encourage children to read in their free time
to borrow books from school.