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DISCUSSION 08 Mar Nurhafizah
QUESTION 1 Good Evening Pn Rahimah...thanks for the 2012 Binti Ajlan
compliments...yup..reading has a lot of purposes 09:34:35
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and benefits..To me..it does not matter what kind
of books we read as long there is something can
be gained from it. A meaningful reading is the
main focus because we are what we do...reading
is one of the good thing to be done.
And, fiction or non fiction books definitely have their own
advantages.. Previously, I love to read fiction books too. But, due
to time consuming, I do not have time to read fiction books with
the long stories anymore..So, I choose to read something such as
brochures..and mostly it fulfill my need to know about
something..
Actually, I really agree that fiction books help a lot in teaching of
reading in primary schools such as by story telling, the pupils will
be more attracted to read and listen to especially when the
teacher uses a lot of body gestures, movements or facial
expression to tell the story.
As the conclusion, reading is really good as long it is beneficial to
us and there is no reason for us to say NO to reading...
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DISCUSSION
QUESTION 1 Good morning Mr Hendry...so, it means that 2012 Binti Ajlan
you like to read fiction books..which are 12:37:58
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made up by the author ....based on
imagination...
Like myself, I like to read non fiction books
which are telling about the real things
happen in life...real events or places...For
example, I like reading the brochures which
describing and explaining all about certain
places in Malaysia...People who like
travelling definitely would like to read these
kind of books/texts..
But the thing is...do the types of books
related to our thinking styles? This is
because, some people said that fiction
readers need them to ' think out of the box'
and more to imagination .

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QUESTION 1 Hi, Alia...Good morning...yes, lately I read 04 May
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some fiction books such as novels..What I 08:52:39
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can see is, most of the flow of the story is
referring to the reality of life..Most probably
taken from the real incident happened to
certain people in the world.. And for sure..a
lot of moral values can be taken from the
story itself...It is not impossible that some
of the moral values from the story touch
the feeling of certain people who are related
indirectly to the story.
Fiction books are a bit challenging our
thinking too because this kind of books
allow us to keep on predicting the
consequences of something will be
happened..So, it encourages the people to
think beyond.
DISCUSSION Good Evening Pn Norliza...Yes, that is true..we will get the benefit if we keep on 08 Mar Nurhafizah
QUESTION 1 searching for the information about animals..Especially for those who really 2012 Binti Ajlan
like to keep pets at home.. 09:42:08
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We will get to know about their habits, characters, weaknesses,
lifestyles and so on about the animals...Like myself, I like to keep
pets. So, definitely non fiction books will be my favourite. There
are a lot of books such as ' I Wonder Why' created by Grolier
which telling us detailly about animals.
DISCUSSION Yup, that's really true...they key word is....DRILLING.....and, choices of 12 Mar Nurhafizah
QUESTION 2 texts could be one of the reason of why do the pupils become bored of 2012 Binti Ajlan
reading...I think we need to simplify some texts but at the same time we 02:53:27
need to make sure that the content and objectives are still PM
there...referring to the syllabus too
DISCUSSION That's a great idea too, Mr Hendry....when the pupils wear the tag for the 12 Mar Nurhafizah
QUESTION 2 whole day, at least they will be able to memorize the word of the 2012 Binti Ajlan
day...Thanks for the idea...I have not try this idea yet... 02:57:08
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One more thing is....what technique or method of reading you have done
in your reading activities in the classroom?
Like myself, I always do choral reading, pair/group reading...How about
yours? any suggestions ?
DISCUSSION Salam Suhaida...thanks for the good idea...actually most of us are 23 Mar Nurhafizah
QUESTION 2 on the right track too...I agree with your choice of effort that is 2012 Binti Ajlan

3. teaching them to create sentences using the word maze...We need 02:58:13
to let them be more familiar with the words in order to enrich their AM
vocabulary skill...And, provided by their self learning attitude
towards learning English every day....not at school only but at
home too..
Next, maybe we can use our 5 to 7 minutes slot before starting the
assembly every Monday...let the talented pupils to make a
performance such as standing in front of the rest of their friends
and read a short story or passage. Then, we can ask the performer
to ask questions to their friends pertaining to the story read .
Pupils who are able to answer correctly will get some rewards ...
DISCUSSION 27 Feb Nurhafizah
QUESTION 2 Good morning.....most of the pupils from the rural 2012 Binti Ajlan
schools having this kind of problem..to overcome 12:57:41
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it, I do a '5 minutes slot' which is done 5 minutes
before the lesson starts, ask the pupils to say and
spell the words listed to them a day before.
This kind of activity can help them to increase
their memorizing skill in order to spell out the
words correctly. At the same time, they will learn
something everyday. The total of the words
depend on the teacher. But normally, I give 5
words a day to them due to their ability.
Sometimes, frankly to say that, I feel a bit tired of
doing this kind of activity because of the time
consuming, but after thinking of it deeply.. I realize
that 'practice makes perfect'. It is not easy to be
succeed and it needs sacrifaction.....
DISCUUSION 27 Feb Nurhafizah
QUESTION 3 Good Evening....reading activities would be fun 2012 Binti Ajlan
and enjoyable if the teachers use variety of 07:20:44
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methods or approaches..There are a lot of reading
activities can be done in the classroom such as
choral reading, reading aloud and etc..
But, there are some problems in doing the reading
activities. The first problem is...influence of the
usage of their mother tongue. My pupils are using
Bahasa Semai as in their daily
conversation...Bahasa Malaysia becomes their
second language and English as the third
one....So, a bit difficult to the teachers to teach
reading because some of them a bit difficult to

4. sound some letters such as z and f....They will
sound the letter of z as /s/....and f as ?/p/ but not
/f/.
It happens because of the influence from their
mother tongue which is affect their pronunciation
towards some words. Do we have some effective
ways to overcome this kind of problem?
DISCUUSION Yup...tongue twister is really good and enjoyable...How about teaching 12 Mar Nurhafizah
QUESTION 3 them to make 'bubbling'?..Is that really works to practice the sounds of 2012 Binti Ajlan
/b/ and /l/? 05:04:08
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DISCUUSION Oh yeah...jazz chants and nursery rhymes really enjoyable..at least they 12 Mar Nurhafizah
QUESTION 3 can have a fun learning process rather than having 'chalk', 'talk' and 2012 Binti Ajlan
'lecture'. 05:09:20
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Reading the jazz chants and nursery rhymes also can enhance their
pronunciation skill in term of 'learn and enjoy'. Like 'kill a bird with 2
stones'.........We can gain knowledge in reading and fun at the same
time...
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DISCUSSION
QUESTION 4 Good morning teacher..I do agree with your 2012 Binti Ajlan
opinion that some of the authentic 09:00:04
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materials/texts are not very suitable for the
weak pupils in the classroom. But, if I am
not mistaken, authentic materials/texts can
be simplified to make it easier for them.
But, one of the disadvantage of simplifying
the materials/texts is..the teacher will be
facing grammatical problem because some
of the teachers are facing the low
proficiency in grammar. The only thing we
as teachers could do is, keep on refreshing
ourselves to improve our grammar
everyday to make sure that no grammar
mistakes on doing the simplification of the
materials/texts.
DISCUSSION Good morning teacher...I do agree to your opinion of using the authentic 04 May Nurhafizah
QUESTION 4 materials such as real situation which is related to the pupils. Just to 2012 Binti Ajlan
share an experience of a pupil in Year 3 from my previous school.A 01:51:58
teacher was showing to a man who was cycling his bicycle to the town. AM
The teacher intended to focus on the bicycle itself because he was
teaching the topic of 'transportation' to the pupils in the classroom. So,
that was the correct time for him to use realia ( authentic material ) to

5. give a better imagination of what a bicycle is.
But suddenly, there was a girl started to cry at her place. All the people
in the classroom felt shocked to see the girl cried. Then the teacher asked
the girl, why did she cry...The girl kept quiet and suddenly there was a
boy standing next to the teacher and told that the girl has no father
anymore..Her father had just passed away on last 2 months...
The point is...authentic materials are very good to be used..it's just need
us to be more alert of the sensitivity of certain situation related to our
pupils...I am not disagree the using of authentic materials...just sharing
the experience to us in order to have a good learning and teaching
process with the pupils.
DISCUSSION
QUESTION 5 Good morning Suhaida..I do agree that role 04 May
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play is very good to be implemented in our 10:09:04
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lesson. Furthermore, we are teaching a
language subject that sometimes can be
bored if we do not use accurate or suitable
technique in teaching English. English
should be fun if those kind of activities or
techniques used in our lesson. Other than
role play, we also could use 'action song' as
one of way to teach 'Parts of the Body'.
Action song needs them to use body
movements or gestures to express out the
song as well as the names of parts of the
body.
This is important in order to have fun
learning of English Language.
Sample of action
song : http://youtu.be/d8FwBSITW-4
DISCUSSION
QUESTION 5 Good morning everybody..Yup..I do agree 04 May
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that questioning is good to help the pupils 02:20:49
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generate their ideas in learning process.
And, it also depends on the types of
questions used by the teacher to the pupils.
According to Socrates, thoughtful
questioning is really helpful to help the
learners reach the levels of thinking.
There are 5 types of questions can be used

6. in the classroom. There are factual,
Convergent, Divergent, Evaluative and
Combination. All the 5 types are very good
to be implemented because it help the
pupils to think creatively.
DISCUSSION Good morning teacher..It is true that questioning is very good to let them 04 May Nurhafizah
QUESTION 5 aware of the important of reading the texts given. We could say that 2012 Binti Ajlan
questioning allow us to have a meaningful reading rather than reading the 09:14:37
texts without any purposes. AM
There are 5 types of basic questions can be used in our lesson..The first
one is factual question which is simple and direct to the point and more
straight forward. Example : Who is our Prime Minister?
The second type is convergent which is usually within a very finite range
of accuracy. It needs them to make inferences based on what they have
read. Example : Based on the case of the kidnapping, why do you think
the girl being kidnapped by her own uncle ?
Next type is divergent question which allows the pupils to explore different
avenues and create many variations of alternative answers or scenarios.
This kind of question also allow them to analyze or evaluate and
predicting the consequences. Example : Lisa is a girl who comes from a
well known and rich family. In this situation, why do think that she
pretended to be a poor girl who always steal money from the people
around her?
The fourth type is evaluative question which is requires sophisticated
levels of cognitive or judgement. At the same time, pupils will combine
the logical and thinking process before creating a perspective or point of
view. Example : What are the similarities and differences between
Western and Traditional food?
The last type is combination question which blends together with any
combination of the above. Example: According to the criminal cases
happen in Malaysia, what are the main factors of the criminal and describe
some actions can be taken as prevention.