In our last class we had an interesting presentation about a chapter called “A framework for evaluation”. The part that called my attention was the final activity, the idea was to read and act out one possible situation we can face in a real classroom.  We had to performance the situation, give it a solution and our partners had to guess what the situation was about.

The case, my group had to performance, was about 9th graders students who had to read a book. The thing was that the students did not understand many vocabulary and idioms present in the book. We, as teacher, can face this situation in our classroom and we have to be able to give a quick and useful solution.

My classmates and my professor discussed this particular case and we could get some possible and useful strategies which can help us, as teacher, dealing with this:

·         It is not a good idea to change the book.  The teacher can teach his/her students an excellent strategy for reading.  Skimming: the teacher asks his/ her students to read the book trying to get the general idea of a paragraph, avoiding specific details and some words they do not understand.

·         It is good idea to take some time to read the book in the class, so the teacher can provide students some help.

·         Students can read the book in groups, so they can share ideas and also, by context they can get some meanings.