A teacher of English, specialized school № 8, Chervonohrad, Lviv Region

The problem I am working on:‘’ Teaching Reading on

Intermediate level in a specialized school’’

Significance:  The necessity of reading skills and knowledge aimed at the development of a socio-cultural communicative competence. The usage of innovative teaching methods to encourage active readers to learn the language, stimulate cognitive individual thinking and encourage the development of reading strategies. Overcoming the language barrierbetween theoretical and practical usage.

Types of Reading I use: ScanningSkimmingDetailed or exploratoryCriticalExtensiveIntensiveIndividual

Task assignments: To create the best classroom conditions and opportunities for the students to be active participants in the teaching-learning process To develop reading strategies in a group work, speech situations, role-games, debates not only as means of stimulating the process of studying but also the important aspect of psychological comfort and mental fatigue at the lesson Modeling the educational atmosphere for the students with different level of learning. To develop individual, cognitive students’ qualities.To bring up harmonious, adaptable, creative, talented students for the society.

‘’Create not only the writers, but the readers too’’.  H. Ibsen

The ways of implementation:Interactive teachingProject technologiesRole-gamesSelf-oriented approach to learning

Reading Strategies: Pre-reading While – reading Post – reading

Sample Activities used at the lessons:Presentation.BroadcastMeetingsDiscussionsTournament or Contest for learning new wordsProject or Scientific Research DebateReading poems or Staging abstracts of well-known English stories. Continue the story…Translation of popular poems, stories and songs.

The Principles of Teaching Reading

The Results: Received successful motivation and

educational environment for the students with different level of knowledge.

The ability to use in practice all skills and knowledge.

Received upper and intermediate students’ level .

The Results of my Work:OlympiadsMusialo Arthur(11- А) winner of the ІІ stage of All-Ukrainian subject Olympiad in English language (І place) winner of the ІІI stage of All-Ukrainian subject Olympiad in English language ІІ place (2011-2012)Scientific Reseach ConferenceZinchenko Victoriya (11-B)winner of the ІІ stage of All-Ukrainian scientific research conference(2011-2012)

Methodological Work: Out –of –School Activities(The Christmas Party, ABC Party, I love Ukraine/game-show/, The Family Party, In the Land of Fairy-Tales)Presentations about the life and creative work of American writers on the subject ‘American Literature ‘ in the 11th formsComplex of lessons on the topic ‘’Communication in our Life’The presentation of teaching experience on the topic‘Teaching Reading at the English lessons’.

The participation in teachers interactive methodological Pearson –Dinternal seminar ”Writing Workshop: How to Pass an Exam ’’ conducted by Svitlana Sorochynska, Pearson –Dinternal head methodologist, PTE examiner , /2015р./

Teachers interactive training-seminar “The Role of Grammar in Learning English”, held by Olena Kolesnyk, a director of Macmillan /2013p./

Methodological interactive training-seminar ’’Integrated approach to Language Learning’’, organized by partners of Dinternal Books and publication Pearson./2014p./