Learning to take notes while reading

This week we've been learning about the fact that South East Asia has many minority ethnic groups. Each of these has its own language, traditions and clothes. We especially learned a lot about the fact that some of these minority groups are forgetting their language and traditions. This became an opportunity for us to think about our own culture and for each of us to feel proud of who we are.

This was tied into our English lessons too. As we looked at fascinating photographs of people from South East Asian ethnic groups we naturally had many questions to ask. The focus of the lessons was how to form effective questions. This was a valuable exercise because students really did have good questions, and so they learned how to phrase them correctly and use key words to make them more effective.

There has also been a focus on vocabulary extension too. Children naturally enjoy talking, but there is an ongoing need to broaden the scope of the language they are able to use correctly. This comes about through discussions with the teacher and reading carefully chosen books.

Here are some photos of us taking notes from the online books about culture. Next week we will look more closely at how to take notes from online resources.

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