MMVC19 “To Read Books or Not to Read...That is The Question!!”

To read or not to read…………… That is the Question!!

Reflecting on the Webinar of Judy Wong

The event took place on 3rd August and it was a reflection on the ideas about teaching reading and what makes reading something which is not loved by the learners. I am familiar with this as most of my students love watching videos and interacting online but they seem to hate reading books.

Her talk was focussed on the benefits of book readings in person versus a book reading in a video.

As I was not at home I watched the recording, I must confess that Judy is a loving person and I like the strategies that she uses to get her learners interested in reading regardless of the students' age.

She shares her ideas in her blog where she also keeps the main recordings of the webinars she took part in and also shares her slides.

You can find more here: Judy's world- her blog Here you can find some meaningful ideas and reflections which Judy used in the presentation she made.

Some key ideas she shared with us and which made me think and reflect:

• reading as a child and reading with a child are not the same things
• when working on reading we should not pre-teach the book and also the lexis
• interest in reading is important
• everybody is different

An aspect which is important is to open the door, the mind and get the learners imagine and work on the book. Reading a book together and maybe get the learners imagine about the setting, the place and the characters Imagination is the key word. What I will do in the future I cannot do the course which Judy is going to start in autumn but I wish I could.I am starting some courses online and this implies that I will work 24/7 as we have a lot of tasks at school. I will try to find different strategies to get my students into the habit of loving reading a book. A book can be read and taken anywhere and it can really help us feel happy, ready to start a new journey and sometimes feel less lonely.