Reading Activities that Prepare Students to Write

By Christine Huang 黃元怡

Reading Writing

VocabularyGrammarReading SkillsReading Comprehension

VocabularyGrammar

Writing StrategiesWriting Conventions

Writing Steps

Reading Skills

1. Understanding Main Ideas

2. Identifying Detail

3. Identifying Paraphrase

4. Making Inferences

5. Recognizing Purpose

6. Understanding Reference

7. Defining Vocabulary

8. Recognizing Sequence

Common Reading Exercises

Sentence Completion

Text Completion

Reading comprehension

Writing Skills - Writing Strategies

Punctuation Compound Sentence Greeting and Closing Reported vs. Direct Speech Resume Writing Verb Agreement Paraphrasing vs. Quotations Etc.

Writing Skills - Writing Conventions

Topic and supporting sentences Signal and Connecting Words Pronoun in a text Cause and effect Words Compare and Contrast Signal words Supporting Facts with Evidence Phrases for expressing and opinion

Writing Skills - Writing Steps

Step 1: Pre-writeStep 2: OrganizeStep 3: Draft and reviseStep 4: Edit

Let’s try it!

Read a Story

Reading Skills: Reading for details - cause and effect Recognizing sequence Defining vocabulary

Grammar: reported vs. direct speech

Reading for cause and effect

Why was Mrs. Lee late for work? Why did Mrs. Lee take a taxi? Why was Mrs. Lee ‘s boss angry? Why _________________? Why _________________?

Circle the cause-and-effect words

Recognizing sequence

Key words: now, after, when, then, finally

Questions: What did Mrs. Lee do after the bus broke

down? ___________________?

Defining vocabulary

Find the adjectives in the reading. difficult frustrating angry exhausted nervous terrible understanding tired

Defining vocabulary

Which of the following is closest in meaning to “frustrating” in line 2?

What does the word “exhausted” mean in line 3?

Reported vs. direct speech

Direct speech Mrs. Lee said, “I’m sorry.”

Reported speech Mrs. Lee said that she was sorry.

Reading Writing

VocabularyGrammarReading SkillsReading Comprehension

VocabularyGrammar

Writing StrategiesWriting Conventions

Writing Steps

Writing a Story Writing:

personal narrative Organization:

Parts of a story Writing Strategies:

cause and effect words Writing Conventions:

reported vs. direct speech Writing Steps:

Pre-write, Organize, Draft and Revise, Edit

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Write captions

Write a sentence for each picture. • Use sentences from the reading• Use your own sentences.

On the way downtown, the bus broke down, and everybody got off and waited for another bus.

Write your own story

Step 1: Pre-writeStep 2: OrganizeStep 3: Draft and reviseStep 4: Edit

學測與指考英文作文評分內容（ 5

分）

組織（ 5分）

文法、句構（ 4分）

字彙、拼字（ 4分）

體例（ 2

分）

學測編號 2：優－ 17分

資料來源： http://www.ceec.edu.tw/CeecMag/Articles/142/142-2.htm

Step 1: Pre-write (Wh- organizer)

Step 2: Organize

Step 3: Draft and Revise

How can Abby combine sentences 11 and 12 to make a complex sentence?

A. When my mom saw me, she said, “Good morning, theater employee!”

B. Because my mom saw me, she said, , “Good morning, theater employee!”

C. My mom saw me and she said, “Good morning, theater employee!”

D. My mom saw me, she said, “Good morning, theater employee!”

Which cause and effect signal word can Abby place after sentence 28 to join it to sentence 29 and show the cause and effect relationship?

A. therefore

B. As a result

C. for

D. because

Step 4: Edit

Before I went to the kitchen I put on my nametag.

Before I went to the kitchen, I put on my nametag.

Step 4: Edit

Reading Writing

VocabularyGrammarReading SkillsReading Comprehension

VocabularyGrammar

Writing StrategiesWriting Conventions

Writing Steps

Thank you!