The traditional recipe for development of reading comprehension activities involves teachers taking the main ingredient of a level appropriate, hopefully interesting text, adding some main idea, supporting detail, author’s purpose and summarizing questions, sprinkling with a few higher-order thinking questions and serving it hot off the press to the students.
I will present a new CEFR flavored online reading comprehension recipe which involves students generating questions and activities for articles of their choice from the resource sciencedaily.com. I will demonstrate how with teacher facilitation students’ question generation enabled them to engage with and process the material more deeply, negotiate meaning and consider it in new contexts. I will share how students created robust learning materials for their peers by adding vocabulary and video related activities in addition to a range of reading comprehension questions. I will also discuss the pedagogy, technology and organization that expedited this successful article exchange project.