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This activity targets literacy skills of advanced learners and is designed to prepare learners to read a wide variety of genres targeted at their domain-specific interests. For example, a student could examine global health issues, sports marketing, or design. 

Mode(s): Interpretive Reading, Presentational Writing

Objectives:

Students will be able to:

• Select readings about their topic in three different genres.
• Make comparisons about the content and language of different types of reading materials
• Write a reflective piece about their selected topic in which they incorporate information about what they have read.

Resources: Advanced Reading Resource Sheet

Procedures:

1. As a class, review readings around a common topic to explore key components of different types of reading materials. Ask learners to identify key features, audience, and language structures.
2. Ask students to explore reading sources in the target language and select three reading passages that represent three different genres about the same topic.
3. Have students read the passages and compare the information, language, and purpose of the three reading by completing the table on the resource sheet.
4. Ask learners to write a reflective blog entry in which they synthesize what they have read and offer three new insights into the topic.

As an extension activity, learners could also be asked to read one another’s blog and discuss the relevant topics.