Children Reading Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: Students learn new vocabulary through a text on reading. Skill: Reading, Vocabulary Preparation Time: 20 minutes Completion Time: 5060 minutes Level: Upper Intermediate Resources: Children Reading Text, Children Reading Vocabulary Worksheet, Children Reading Vocabulary Answer Sheet, Children Reading Filler

Warm-up (510 minutes)

read? When they have shared their memories, feed back as a class. Ask students to discuss the following questions, either in pairs or small groups. When you were a child, did you like reading? What kind of things did you read? Why did you

Presentation (2025 minutes)

Tell students they are going to read a text about children reading, but that first they will be working with some vocabulary.

Tell them that you are going to give them a list of ten items of vocabulary and that they should

first look through the vocabulary on their own. If they are confident that they know the vocabulary and that they can use it, they should put a + next to it. If they have come across it but are hesitant about its meaning or how to use it, they should put a ?, and if they do not know it, they should put an x.

Hand out the Children Reading Vocabulary Worksheet and ask students to look at 1-10 on When they have finished working individually, ask them to compare their knowledge with the

the top half of the page. person next to them. They may find that they can build up their knowledge together.

Go through any remaining gaps as a class. To check comprehension, ask students to do the exercise at the bottom of the worksheet.

They should make connections with the vocabulary as they are not synonyms. For example, a code is deciphered and someone might curl up with a book on the sofa. The answers are only suggested, and students may well be able to make their own connections.

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Children Reading Lesson Plan

KEY: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 to decipher it remains to be seen to curl up with to launch to come up with to be in ones heyday a twinkle in someones eye an issue to lose ones way to take someone / something seriously

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read.

When you have discussed their answers, tell students you are going to give them the text to

Tell them they are going to read the text for specific information. Write three or four questions on the board. Its up to you what you write, but questions could

include the following: What is Puffin Post? When was it launched? What did these people do? (Kaye Webb, Allen Lane, Roald Dahl, Jill McDonald). Name possible reasons why Puffin Post lost its way.

Hand out the Children Reading Text (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32a1b748-9b25-11dd-

a653-000077b07658.html). Check students comprehension of the text by going through the answers to your questions.

Practice (20 minutes)

Tell students they are going to look for some adjectives and nouns in the text. Explain that you are going to give them some definitions and that they should find adjectives and nouns which correspond to the definitions. Hand out Children Reading Adjectives Worksheet and ask students to locate the adjectives and nouns. Tell them the adjectives are not in the same order as the text, but the nouns are.
KEY: Exercise 1 1 2 3 4 grumpy idiosyncratic cult erudite

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Children Reading Lesson Plan

5 6 7 8 eclectic clear sophisticated loveable Exercise 2 1 2 3 4 forum empowerment facilitator snarl

Check students answers. Tell students they are going to do some sentence transformations and that the answers are

to be found in the vocabulary they have already worked with. Hand out the Children Reading Filler and show them the example.

Closure (5-10 minutes)

Check their answers.
KEY: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 It remains to be seen how the cyclist will react to the treatment she is receiving. He was only taken seriously once he had released his third CD. The Beatles were in their heyday in the mid-sixties. The new shampoo will be launched next week. This album came out when you were still a twinkle in your fathers eye. Sean came up with the best idea. My taste in music is eclectic. Sorry Ive been so grumpy lately, but Ive been quite worried.

NOTE: The vocabulary from this exercise comes from the text, therefore if you decide to do

this exercise independently of the text, it might be an idea to introduce some of the more difficult vocabulary before you begin, for example by writing it on the board.

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