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Revised Required Reading - Lesson Plan (Writing)

 This is for a writing prompt in the course: Teach English Now! Reading, Writing & Grammar by Arizona State University through Coursera.

In the last peer review assignment, you created a lesson plan based on a reading that you selected. Now, you're going to edit it, perhaps delete some activities and add in some new ones. Using some of the ideas related to the writing process discussed in this module, add a pre-writing activity, a writing activity and a post-writing activity (related to your reading)into your existing 50-60 minute lesson plan.

Lesson Plan (Intermediate) - REVISED

 

**the news article to be used: Space Exploration - ESL Lesson Plan - Breaking News English Lesson

 

Lesson Objective

  • Students will be able to learn and use new vocabularies on their own.

  • Students will be able to fill in the reading outline and summarize the news article that will be presented in class.

  • Students will be able to write 5 questions regarding the reading material and will be paired for further discussion.

 

Warm-Activity

  • T will ask S what they know about space and will list key vocabularies as S mentions them.

  • T will also list vocabularies that were missed and discuss what it means in class.

  • Astronomers

  • Exploration

  • Venture

  • Probe

  • Rover

  • microbial

  • T will give S time to create at least 3 sentences using the new vocabularies that were discussed.

 

Objective Discussion

  • After the vocabulary discussion, T will introduce the reading material for the day.

  • Explain that in this lesson, S will fill out a reading outline and will summarize the reading material. Explain how to fill out the reading outline.

  • Explain that in this lesson, they will also be writing 5 questions that are related to the reading material and will record their classmates’ answers to their questions. This will also be presented in class

 

Instruct & Model / Guided Practice

  • T will present the reading outline that S will work on.

  • T will present the reading material and will ask students to read them one after another.

  • After reading, T will model by writing the first main idea in the news article. Students will then look for two more main ideas followed by its supporting ideas.

 

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Independent Practice

  • Ts will give 20 minutes to students to create and ask 5 space-related questions to their partners. The partners will be answering their questions in paragraph forms. They can use the internet for researching purposes so they can give out good answers.

  • Their partners’ answers will be presented as is in the reading outline, with the students extracting the main and supporting ideas from their partner’s answers.

 

Assessment

  • Students will grade themselves with rubric aide.

  • The teacher will grade the students as well and will average the scores to get the final one.

 

Rubrics:

Comprehension - how good the questions are and how many did the student create

  • Excellent- the student created 5 questions with great context.

  • Fair - the student created at least 3 or more questions with good context.

  • Needs Improvement- the student has only created less than 3 questions.

Form & Detail- how good the reading outline’s context is and if the student used the  proper sentence structure

  • Excellent- the student was able to create a reading outline aligned to the one used in the discussion and was able to use his/her partner’s answers well.

  • Fair - the student was able create a fair reading outline including a few ideas from his/her partner’s answers.

  • Needs Improvement- the student was not clear about the main idea and supporting idea.

Grammar & Format - how the student adhered to the writing specifics

  • Excellent - no grammar lapses nor spelling misses found. Format is the same as the one in the discussion.

  • Fair - grammar lapses and spelling misses is below 50% of the write-up.

  • Needs Improvement - grammar lapses and spelling misses is more than 50% of the write-up.

 

**rubric is loosely based in this: iRubric: Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary rubric - B2X5WAW: RCampus



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