Embedded Reading for Creating Confident Storytellers

As part of a TPRS conference I learned about embedded reading and have been really wowed with what it has enabled my students to do. I will demonstrate embedded reading by using an example I used last year with great success. The demonstration will use Indonesian but will be accessible to non Indonesian-speakers. In a nut shell, the example I am using helps students to build understanding of written and spoken text that tells the same story over several lessons but gradually adds more and more details. Finally, students were able to use the model structures they learnt to collaboratively create unique role plays the rest of the class could understand and write their own individual stories in a highly self-differentiated way. I’ll bring along some work samples – they are a blast!