Embedded Reading and

Technologies for Reading

CSArts World Language Department Meeting
April 19
Nana Yang
Objectives and Standards:
By the end of this workshop, teachers will understand

● what is embedded reading,

● how to use embedded reading in classrooms,
● how to create embedded reading materials
● use technologies to enhance/promote reading and comprehension in world language classroom.

CSTP Standards

3.3 Organizing curriculum to facilitate student understanding of the subject matter

6.2 Establishing professional goals and engaging in continuous and purposeful professional growth and
development

NBPTS Proposition 3: Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning.

Teacher Leader Model Standards Domain 4: Facilitates Improvements in Instruction and Student Learning
How Do you Teach and Promote Proficiency in Your
Classroom?
● What are your activities?
● How do you use students’ prior knowledge to learn new things?
● What are the challengings to teach Proficiency?
Let’s Share….
● What was the best activity to teach proficiency?
● Is there a story that your students always bring back and remember?
● Is any structure and word that are in the story make student learn them
naturally?
What is Embedded Reading
● A way to help students to become better readers
● It is a series of reading (base, second, third and even fourth)
● Each version embedded with the previous reading
● The readings are scaffolded with old and new information
● A teacher adjusted reading to deepen students’ understanding
 A text in English
1. Base 3. One day, there is a lonely dog went to the
park because he wants to find a friend.
A dog goes to the park
He saw many ducks in the river and they
The dog saw many ducks
were swimming.
The duck swim away
The dog barks: “Hello, New friends”.
2. Second
Sadly, the ducks got scared of the dog, so
The dog goes to the park to find friends. they swam away.

He saw many ducks. The poor dog feels so lonely. He has no one.

He saw ducks were swimming. He walked to the playground and thought why
they did not want to be my friends?
He says “hello” to ducks, but they all swim away.

Oh, the poor dog, who will be his friend now?

A Chinese Embedded Text
1. base
3.
女孩去吃饭
女孩觉得很饿，所以她去必胜客吃饭。
女孩看到了披萨
女孩看到了很多好吃的披萨，她也看到
披萨卖光了 了很多人在吃披萨。

2. Second 女孩也想吃披萨因为披萨看起来很好吃
女孩去必胜客吃饭 女孩去买披萨
女孩看到了很多人在吃披萨
可是他们跟女孩说：“披萨卖光了”
女孩也想吃披萨

可是，披萨卖光了。
Create Your Embedded Reading
Technology for Enhancing Reading
● Youtube: video channel for posting all your story reading with images.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrgXSWwwi_40KZdz87jPNKA?view_as=subscriber

● Qwickslides: use to make your youtube video with quicker click

http://www.classtools.net/qwikslides/

● Screencast-o-matic: screencast all your listening activities, so students can

comprehend through listening and reading the text.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/screen-recorder
Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNL77-_4yyg&t=2s
Wrap up:
It is exciting to enhance reading and see growth of readers in our classrooms and
it is challenging to build the reading habit and create reading materials especially
for world language. You can use our flexibility and creativity to make adjust
materials just for our students. Embedded Reading is a fun and engaging activity
and the technologies can help us avoid problem of missing enough auditory input
and visual presentation of texts.
Work Cited
https://embeddedreading.com/about/

https://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash-english.html

http://tprsforchinese.blogspot.com/