閱讀理解能力發展活動：篇章結構宏觀理解活動，學生自主快速閱讀課文，根據教師所提供的判斷句，判斷主題。教師列出以下問題： Did you go to school together?The letter must have made you feel good, didn’t it? Is your cab available? Is he someone you’ve known quite a while? Is he dead? I thought your friend was Ed. Why did he sign it Tom? Is the letter from a child or a grandchild? Did you two work at the same place? 學生小組討論并排序。學生閱讀課文，劃分段落結構，寫出各部分觀點。教師寫出若干個陳述句，學生正誤辨識。如Baker had never thought of becoming a writer until he was in the eleventh grade；Teachers found it painful to read students’long and lifeless essays；Before Mr. Fleagle became the English teacher for Baker’s class, the English course had been interesting.