Shuhan Yang
School of Culture and Communication, Hubei Preschool Teachers College, Ezhou 436031, Hubei, China.
*Corresponding author: Shuhan Yang
Abstract
For English learners and teachers, extensive reading proficiency and teaching are crucial in students’ reading comprehension ability, while extensive reading ability lies in the deep understanding of the main idea or gist of the text. In order to comprehend the main idea or the gist completely, the focus of this paper is on introducing a novel storytelling method called S.C.O.O.P., which can be utilized not just by educators in extensive reading teaching lessons, but also by students to retell the story or main idea of the text they are studying in a fun way. In ad-dition, this paper explains the benefits of S.C.O.O.P. and the strategies for implementing it effectively in the classroom. Furthermore, it provides a teaching case in an extensive reading teaching lesson to present how to apply S.C.O.O.P. method in real reading teaching scenario for English teachers and which activities can be considered to facilitate the method application. Finally, the paper shows that the S.C.O.O.P. method is more effective and engaging than the traditional extensive reading teaching methods in terms of reading comprehension and development for English learners.
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How to cite this paper
An English Storytelling Method—S.C.O.O.P.
How to cite this paper: Shuhan Yang. (2024). An English Storytelling Method—S.C.O.O.P.. The Educational Review, USA, 8(7), 984-988.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/er.2024.07.016