Reading skills are also reinforced, along with attention to vocabulary and grammar. This text provides a wide variety of dictations that include provocative news items, problems to solve, and decisions to make.

- There are four different types of dictation:

- Partial (Cloze): Students listen and fill in the blanks in the activity.

- Pair: Students work in pairs with different gaps in their passages.

- Dictogloss: Students hear a sentence once and have to write the gist of that sentence.

- Prediction: Students predict what should be in the sentence blank and then check to see if their prediction was correct.