Response to Gaby's posting on Recommendations for Multi-skills Websites

Hi, Gaby and All

You did well by choosing a reading story for your class activity. I think your students will enjoy it. I agree with Luba that the idea of using funny stories in class is great, but I agree with Jonathan and Luba that your learning objective is more centered on you than on your students. If you take a look at the Audience, the Behavior, and the Degree you will see that the activities you designed for the reading story are not congruent with your learning objective.

In similar cases, there are two things that you can do about it: either you re-word your objective or you re-design your activities. For the specific case, I suggest you re-word the instructional objective.

Also, should you retain the option of re-wording the objective, two possibilities can be offered, depending on our interest. If your interest is on developing students’ sense of social values, namely the moral in the story, so you may reformulate the objective the following way:
After reading a story (C), students (A) will be able to (infer) the moral from the story and tell/or write the moral (choose what best serves your purposes) (B), with 80% of grammar /or vocabulary accuracy (D).

But if you interest is on developing students’ language skills, I would suggest this reformulation:
Given a reading story (C), students (A) will be able to give synonyms for words and correctly answer comprehension questions (B) with 80% of accuracy (D).

Do you think the suggestions could work?

Waiting for your reaction.

Kind regards,

Bruno