Favourite stories from The Westcoast Reader
Posted by joan | Filed under Teachers' Guide
The guide has four sections: Pre-reading Activities, Listening and Speaking Activities, Reading Comprehension Activities, and Activities for Developing Vocabulary. Each section has an introduction and sample activities.
I hope that teachers will be able to customize the suggested activities to fit the needs, interests, and ages of their students as well as their language and reading levels.
The financial support of Capilano University for this project is gratefully acknowledged. A special thank you to the learners and teachers who helped choose the articles for these books.
All of the material in these books first appeared in The Westcoast Reader (1982 to 2009). Some of the articles have been updated. Most of the exercises and activities for learners are based on material from The Westcoast Reader Teachers’ Notes (1982 to 2009).
Thank you to Pacific Newspaper Group, publishers of The Vancouver Sun and The Province, Canadian Press, and North Shore News for permission to reuse photos; to Nola Johnston and Guy Parsons for permission to reuse drawings and maps; and to Torstar Syndication for permission to reuse Baby Blues cartoons.
Joan Acosta
Best of the Reader by Joan Acosta is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.
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May 14th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I took the Teachers’ Guide home with a pile of marking. I sat down in a state of fatigue to mark and of course reached for the guide instead. I read all the way to page 37, mesmerized by the ease of reading and beautiful layout. It just proves the point that if you make it attractive, readers want to read it. The information in the Teachers’ Guide is pedagogically sound and beautifully presented—well done as always! (I just found poker chips at a garage sale for the activity on page 37!)
Catherine Ostler
ESL Instructor
Capilano University