M a education paper-v methods of teaching english

D. Supplementary Reading: 
The word supplement comes from the Latin supplementum for "something added to 
fix a deficiency" and the suffix -ary means "connected with." Together they mean 
“filling in”.

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Teachers of English almost always believe that some amount of subsidiary reading in 
addition to intensive and extensive reading is a must. Supplementary reading 
however is not library reading. It is done and tested in set lessons and constitutes 
supervised reading. 
The supplementary reader is preferably as simple as the reader/ text used for the 
class. The structures and vocabulary learned in the reader/ text should be practiced in 
the supplementary reader.
The main activity during supplementary reading is silent reading of the prescribed 
content. Before silent reading the teacher must provide a few broad questions to 
provide a direction to the reading. After the reading the unit is discussed to assess 
how much the learner has understood. 
While selecting books for supplementary reading it is important to select fairly easy 
books for this encourages spontaneous reading in learners and provides not only a 
sense of achievement and satisfaction but also a great impetus to reading on their 
own. 
 
UNIT III: 2. Development Of Writing Skills 
At the end of this unit you will be able to: 
a. explain the mechanics of writing 
b. illustrate controlled and graded writing exercises 
c. distinguish between guided and free composition. 
A. Teaching the Mechanics of Writing 
Writing is fundamentally different from the other skills: listening, speaking and 
reading. It is visual rather than oral/aural, productive rather than receptive. 
As with reading, it is important to know some simple conversational English before 
beginning to learn the letters.