1. TESOL Materials Design and Development
Week 13
Sample Reading Lesson 1

2. 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 and the Qs on p. 254

3. 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.

4. What is this?
Halloween

5. What are these?
Holidays

6. What is it?
ghost

7. pray

8. temple
(“Jinja” in Japanese)

9. throw

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

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

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

13. traditional
Hanbok is _________ Korean clothing.

14. Which one is “traditional”?
kimchi
pizza

15. harvest
Farmers _____ the crop when it is ready.

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

17. Which countries have these holidays?

18. 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.

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

20. 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?

21. 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

22. TYPHOON GAME 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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

24. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. 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?

33. 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?

34. 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?

35. 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

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

37. 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

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

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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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?

44. 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