Week 6: Readers, Mr. Noh JB (Good Job)

Assignment for Extensive Reading (5~6 Week)

 

	Title	Author	Publisher (ISBN)	Publishing year	Number of page	Book format	Reading Level
1	Feathers, flippers, and feet	Deborah Lock	DK Publishing (0-7566-0265-3)	2004	31	Texts  pictures Riddle Answer	Beginning stage 2
2	Life in a coral Reef	Wendy Pfeffer	HarperCollins Publishers (978-0-06-445222-9)	2009	32	Texts  Pictures	Beginning stage 2
3	Farm animals	Wade Cooper	Scholastic Inc (978-0-545-00721-4)	2008	29	Pictures Understanding Rhyme Quiz	Beginning stage 2
4	A butterfly grows	Stephen Swinburne	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (978-0-15-206422-8)	2009	20	Pictures Texts Questions	Beginning stage 2
5	After the Dinosaurs	Charlotte Lewis Brown	HarperCollins Publishers (978-0-06-053053-2)	2006	32	Pictures Story Texts	Beginning stage 2

 

1.     Feathers, Flippers, and Feet

: This book deals with the parts of the animal’s body such as wings, feet, and feathers etc. By illustrating and introducing familiar animals, the readers can have meaning focused input. With the help of longer sentences and increased vocabulary and  introducing series of parts of animals’ body, it is also offering the readers fluency development strands of a course. Amazing photos combine with lively illustration for  stage-2 beginners. Repetitive and simple words enable the readers to increase their fluency. Unfamiliar and unknown few words are used repeatedly and explained to readers in detail as a picture. The level of this book for the readers on the beginning stage 2, when shown in vocabulary, seems to be so difficult.  

 

In grammatical viewpoint, this book uses lots of noun, adjectives, gerunds, to infinitive and clauses. But, the key point of grammar in this book is gerund. The usages of gerund which should come after preposition are shown.  Q and A style of this book is attractive enough to collect readers’ attention and motivation. Not only interesting and appropriate reading texts but also pictures are provided until the book is over. This book helps the readers move forward systemically through the graded readers levels. New words are approximately 25-30. Totally, 500~600 words are used.

 

2.     Life in a coral Reef

: As we know from the title, this book deals with coral reefs, including the largest coral reef, how coral reefs are created, the kinds of coral animal and life of many ocean creatures. Readers admire coral reefs for their wonderful colors and diverse marine creatures. By using the cause and effect logic and arranging the order of time of a day, the book tries to appeal the stage 2 beginners. As it is offering meaning focused input by using clear and familiar fish names, the readers are able to focus on meaning in the peaceful and calm atmosphere under the ocean. Through the repeated and linked several words every each page, fluency development strands of a course are shown and expected. The level of the book as stage 2 books is easy and common, but the length of one sentence is rather long. This book has a special distinction by using many sentences compared for other same level books. About 30 new nouns (including fish names) are introduced. Totally, 550~650 words are used. The level of unknown vocabulary seems very appropriate. In this book, like the following, the elements of grammar are mainly shown: past-participle, comparative, the superlative, passive voice, subordinate clause, and keep+objective+adjective etc. Of course, the key point of grammar in this book is the usage of main and subordinate clause. The content is very easy because of linked words and the style is bright. If the fish and names are shown by graphics or clear pictures computer assists, the readers can make sense meaning better and develop and improve their fluency in language and learning.

 

3.     Farm animals

: This book is composed of the explanation of the animals’ characteristics, pictures and further study. It has simple, easy words and sentences with amazing photographs of real life animals, which makes the readers motivated and encouraged.

 

 It is very good to have meaning focused input, for stage 2 beginners can read the book without other’s help, that is, they can read aloud interestingly for themselves.

As the real animals’ photographs and their illustrated voices stimulus the readers, they can develop their fluency. The level of this book is appropriate for the beginning readers, especially in the aspect of vocabulary and sentence. As a whole, 450-500 words are used, and unfamiliar and difficult words are about 20.
Although this book deals with easy themes and familiar animals, the usage of the sentence is very important. It has many essential, grammatical elements such as preposition phrases, subordinate clause, “hear, see …” verbs, conjunction and relative adverb, etc. Reading texts are simple and appropriate very much. As the verb and the object are used repeatedly, the readers can be motivated in order to develop their language skills and fluency. This book presents precise expressions, clear written style, good grammar usages and understandable contents. Therefore, especially, this book is good for increase fluency development strands.

 

4.     A butterfly grows

Totally, 150~200 words are written on the book. A few unknown vocabulary are about 15 words. This book was written by Stephen Swinburne who is both a author and a photographer. From cover to cover, lots of photos are shown with texts. Readers are likely to see the author’s mind of loving nature. This book is loyal to show meaning focused input by describing how the caterpillar changes in the story book. The development form egg to caterpillar is explained with live pictures. This book uses variously phonetic vocabulary. Therefore, the book is to increase the fluency development strands. With a caterpillar’s development, this book throws some questions about what the next process is, which plays a key role in making readers interested, encouraged and motivated dreading. The level of this book looks so simple and common, because few words used comparatively. There are many words with similar sounds in relation to the story. This way helps readers support and supplement extensive reading with language focused learning. In grammatical position, Q&A, cause and effect and imperative form are treated. Author unfolds the story naturally by using Q&A style. Considering the level of vocabulary, author spreads his intention until the end of the book.

 

5.     After the Dinosaurs

This book is not only a very instructive book in the point of featuring many lost dinosaurs’ names but also high interested stories for stage 2 beginners . In order to make some words which is not easy for beginners to articualte easier, author introduces the easy introductions of pronunciation every each name.

 

This method inputs readers’ meaning and language focused strategies and helps them develop their fluency in vocabulary. The level of the book seems rather difficult, but it is trying to let them recall the animals which were extinct 40000 years ago.

Big and overwhelming illustration for the extinct and fossil animals encourages readers to be interested in reading text and motivates them to predict what kind of extinct fossil animals appear. Repetitive lexicon are used in relation to the content of the story. Readers can practice and acquire such words with ease. 550~600 words are used in total. About 50 words are used as unfamiliar ones. While reading the book, readers can recognize the name thinking of how big and curious the animals were. In this respect, this book helps them increase their imagination. As this book is showing the content by imaginative illustration and logic words, readers can make sense it easily. In this book, the categories of grammar are used like various adjective, omission, to infinitive, formation of comparative and subordinate clauses. Evidently, the usage of to-infinitive is widely used. That is to say, the usage of phrase this book is using frequently. On account of it, learners can learn grammar and vocabulary systemically and gradually.

 

 

 

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