Over 300 schools in Hong Kong and Macau use Daily Readers in their reading programmes. The newly launched Daily Readers Plus covers more than 30 text types and many exciting new features. In addition, extended activities including liberal studies and writing tasks can enhance students’ creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills. We are glad to have Ms Fan, the English teacher of Methodist School, to share with us how her school uses Daily Readers in the school’s English curriculum.
Ms Fan said that Daily Readers Plus covers a wide range of text types. Also, the extended activities that follow help develop students’ critical thinking skills.
How can Daily Readers improve students’ reading and listening skills? “We would first ask student to listen to the read-aloud audio recording, and complete the comprehension exercises. Then, we ask our students to read the passage so that they have the opportunity to practice both their listening and reading skills.’ said Ms Fan. She also indicated that scanning and skimming skills should not be neglected either. It helps students read quickly and accurately.
Daily Readers: GPS for students’ writing
Ms Fan also shared with us how the extended activities of Daily Readers Plus help to enhance students’ writing skills. The pre-writing task asks students to focus on vocabulary learning. Then, they have to make use of the vocabularies they have learnt to form sentences. Students should then be able to express their ideas clearly and they will write a passage and practice their writing skills. In addition, Ms Fan thought that the liberal studies tasks can improve students’ critical thinking, information technology and problem solving skills, as she notices that students are now more confident to express their ideas.
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“Students rely too much on model answers, and they have lost the incentive to learn by themselves. Daily Readers Plus allows students to develop their self-access learning skills, critical thinking ability and improve their English at the same time,” said Ms Fan.
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