Blog #2 Reading Matrix

The Reading Matrix has many great resources for students ranging from young beginners to advanced adult learners. All of the readings are interactive and some of the beginner stories are animated, which is fun for younger readers. For the purpose of this assignment, I am going to focus on the section labeled Reading Comprehension Advanced. In this section, there is a CNN web page. It has multiple articles from many different themes and there are three versions of every article: an outline, a short version, and the whole article. The teacher could use the outline as schema activation and get the class discussing what the article is going to be about. Then the students could read the short version and think of questions they are left with. Finally, they could read the whole article. Each article is also accompanied with activities including multiple choice quizzes to check for comprehension and vocabulary work. These could be used as post reading activities. All in all, I think it's a great online reading resource!