TESOL Materials Design and Development Week 13 Sample Reading Lesson 1

Homework & Warm-up Choose a reading or listening text for your final project and bring the text to class next week, so we can begin working on your lesson plan and materials. Discuss Evaluating ELT Materials pp. 255-265 and the Qs on p. 254

Sample Reading Lesson This is a 45 minute middle school reading lesson. The reading text was taken from a 2nd grade middle school textbook. The text is entitled: Holidays in Fall.

What is this? Halloween

What are these? Holidays

What is it? ghost

pray

temple (“Jinja” in Japanese)

throw

trick or treat This is what children say to get candy on Halloween.

trouble You will be in ________ if you do something bad.

celebrate This is what we do for things like holidays, birthdays, or if we win the World Cup.

traditional Hanbok is _________ Korean clothing.

Which one is “traditional”? kimchi pizza

harvest Farmers _____ the crop when it is ready.

growth This is what happens when someone or something gets older and bigger.

Which countries have these holidays?

Which title and which picture? Directions: please look at the following titles and pictures and try to match the correct ones to the stories on your papers.

Which title and which picture? The Tomato War Festival in Spain Ghosts on Halloween Shichi-go-san Day 2 3 1

Check Predictions Questions: Which country has Halloween? Directions: Please read the text again. Check your predictions and answer the questions below. Questions: Which country has Halloween? Where is the Tomato War Festival? Where is the holiday “Shichi-go san” from?

Answers 1. Which country has Halloween? America 2. Where is the Tomato War Festival? Spain 3. Where is the holiday “Shichi-go san” from? Japan

TYPHOON GAME 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Question 1 20 points When did The Tomato War Festival start? 1944 Back

Question 2 TYPHOON! (50 points) When (age) do girls go to Jinja for Shichi-go-san Day? When they become three (3) and seven (7). Back

Question 3 30 points Who celebrates The Tomato War Festival? The Spanish people. Back

Question 4 40 points What do children say to get candy on Halloween? Trick or treat Back

Question 5 TYPHOON! (50 points) What do people do on The Tomato War Festival? They throw tomatoes at others. Back

Question 6 30 points Where do children go on Shichi-go-san Day? The go to Jinja (temple). Back

Question 7 20 points When is Halloween? October 31. Back

Question 8 TYPHOON! (50 points) What do children dress up as on Halloween? They dress up as ghosts and monsters. Back

Question 9 20 points When is Shichi-go-san Day? November 15. Back

Processing How did the T activate schema? How did T check Ss background knowledge? How did the T pre-teach and check the new vocab? Could the T have done anything else in the Pre-stage to prepare the Ss to be successful? What and Why?

Processing What did the first reading activity assess? Was it appropriate for low level Ss and reluctant readers? Why? Why did the T give the quiz questions before he had the Ss play the Typhoon game? If the T has already assessed Ss understanding of the reading, why does he play the Typhoon game?

Processing What did the T do to support Ss when they were doing their Post activity? Which of Grellet’s seven assumptions were used during this reading lesson? (p. 223) How could T have used chunking in this lesson? How could the Ss have done this lesson as a jigsaw reading? What kind of support would the T need to give the Ss in order for the Ss to do the jigsaw reading successfully?

Pre-Teaching Vocabulary Word List Rather than Pictures Holiday Ghost Throw Trick or treat Trouble Celebrate Harvest Pray Temple Growth Traditional Groups gets some post it notes. Ss put post it note next to word they know T has Ss explain words to each other

Pamphlet Style Graphic Organizer On the front is a general type Questions What is the passage about? What is the best title (Multiple choice)

Mind Map Graphic Organizer Ss would organize: When Where What Who The organizer and stories would be color coded, so Ss would know where to write what

How could T have used chunking in this lesson? big PRE little pre little during big DURING big POST Chunk 1 Chunk 2

Choosing Vocabulary What do we mean when we say, we pre-teach the key words? What are key words?

Find the Key Words Key words are the words that unlock the text. They help Ss understand the Main Ideas and Significant Details Not all difficult words are key words: Why don’t we teach all difficult words? Read the listening script on p. 103. Underline all the words that you think the Ss will have trouble with Circle the key words Compare your words with your partner

You Try Take out your text Underline all the difficult words or words that you think your Ss might have trouble with Choose 6-10 of those words which are related to the main ideas and significant details; these are your key words Brainstorm with your groups ways to pre-teach your vocabulary

General Tasks Make a list of all the general listening and reading tasks that you can think of Discuss with your group which tasks are appropriate for your text

Specific Tasks Make a list of all the specific listening and reading tasks that you can think of Discuss with your group which tasks are appropriate for your text How many tasks do you think are appropriate?

Assessment Activity Make a list of all the assessment activities you can think of for listening and reading texts Discuss with your group which assessment task is appropriate for your text