The Interpretive Mode:  Listening & Reading
1.2  Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics

1=Recall/Recognition            2=Explanation            3=Application            4=Evaluation            5=Synthesis

[* discussed in both texts]

Omaggio Hadley  (Ch. 5)

*2<   National Standards: Explain the Interpretive Communication mode

2/4<  Discuss the use of authentic materials in the classroom

1<     Similarities and differences in listening and reading.

1<     Four basic modes of speech

1<     Text types of written discourse

*3<   Sample activities for the preparation stage (pre-listening, pre-reading)

3<     Lund's taxonomies: functions & tasks (listener responses)

*2<     Using Web-based materials as a source of passages

Curtain & Dahlberg  (Ch. 3 - p. 71-81,  Ch. 5)

        CHAPTER 3
2<   What criteria should stories meet in order to provide experience with the interpretive mode?

1<   Story Mapping

       CHAPTER 5

3<   Give an example of a reading activity based on the "language experience approach" .

5<   When should reading begin?

3<   Give examples of  "incidental exposure" to the written language.

1<   word bank

1<   environmental and functional print