Learn to teach with blogs

Reading and writing activity

Reading comprehesion is one of the common learning tasks in English classrooms. English teachers assign reading articles and reading activities to students.

Bee in her blog presented a way to use a blog as a reading activity. She linked of newspaper sites in the post ( Rare drop in gun deaths in Brazil, from BBC) as reading materials and asked students to complete a list of tasks after reading. She provided instructions for the reading activity. Background information of the issue and task instruction are given in the blog post. This activity design resembles a conventional reading comprehension activity.

Discussion Question:

Is this kind of blogging activity suitable for your students? Why or why not?