EPC 2903 Lesson Planning Template for the teaching of Reading in a second/foreign language

Date:
Time
Story Title
Objective(s)

Target
language
Resources

Activity

01.03.16 (Tue)
08.03.16 (Tue)
11:30 12:30

Name of Student:

Latefa Waheeb

Name of School:

Sharjah English
School

PreReading

Building
Knowledge
While
Reading

Year 3

Number of students:

6 children for each group

2 groups (01.03.16)
2 groups (08.03.16)

Food Glorious food!

Students will be able to:
Read a text (examples of letters: e.g. to recount, explain or complain).
Remember the answer that they have been questioned for.
Summaries orally the content of a passage.
(e.g. vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation)
Letters features, notes and massages, vocabulary
Text Book (Non-fiction - The Navigator: Gobstoppers)

Interactio

Teacher Activity

Time

(activity + exact instructions you intend to give)

Engageme
nt

Grade Level:

5
minut
es

Teacher
student

10
minut
es

Student
s
(each
one will

Ask about the formal and informal

letters:
How can you differentiate between
formal and informal letters? (Children
states the features)
Tell children that they are going to read
some letters about food.
Ask children:
What are the purpose of writing a
letter about food?
What might happen if you ate an
unpleasant food?
Read the title and the introduction.
Let each child to read a letters.
Ask about the purpose of each letter
while they are reading.
Ask children the difference between

Student Activity

Purpose/Objective of

(what they do + language you

expect them to use)

Activity

Give answers.
Predict what type of letters
they are going to read.
Express their feeling about
bad food.

Read the title and the

letters each one
independently.
State the difference

To give lots of
different
suggestions and
purposes for
writing a letter.

To read
independently
and scan the
texts.

read a
letter)

each letter.

between each letter

Transition

Transforma
tion &
PostReading

10
minut
es

Teacher
student
s

Reflection
Wrap Up

5
minut
es

Teacher

student
s

After reading the letters ask children to

decide which food they would like to try.
Ask children if any letter match the
purpose of the question that was
discussed before reading the letters.
Ask the children to look at the e-mail.
Can they find three words written in
capital letters? What do they think they
mean?
Ask the children to think about the title.
Why do they think it was used? Why do
they think an exclamation mark was
used?
Let each child to retell an event.
Let each child to state the background
information of the letter that they read,
e.g. when, who, where.

Answer each question.

Remember what they read.
Give specific answer
according to the letters that
they have read

Summarize any letter

theyve read, and say from
who and where it is from.

To answer by
remembering the
events and key
information.

To use their
memorization
skills and reflect
on what they
have read.

Reflection
What went well is that the children were having fun when they were reading the letters, and the questions were appropriate
for their ability to answer it. Also, the post-reading pretty much was good, since it shows that children were memorising the
letters while they were reading, and they did good job answering any question that is related to the letters.
It would be better if I gave them a writing activity. So, next time I will provide some extension activities where they can write a
formal or informal letter, which is related to the letters in the guided reading.