Lesson Plan Outline
Rachael Orbach
Level Intermediate 3rd Stage Grade
7th May 15th
Domain(s) Access to Information
Purpose of Lesson: (General Aims)
Reading Comprehension of text, analysis of paragraph structure.
Lesson Benchmarks(s): (indicators of progress within each domain)
Understand the main idea and supporting details in this text, using
this knowledge to answer questions about the text.
Materials:
Handout, of a paragraph from a newspaper, with questions, white
board, markers, students' notebooks to write answers to questions.
Activities
Stage
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Description
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Time
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Set Induction
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What
makes a great paragraph? How do you know that the paragraph is
interesting?
What associations? How does it
affect you?
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5 minutes
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Practise (Groups, Pairs,
Individuals
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The teacher reads the paragraph,
asks questions about it,
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15 minutes
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Production
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Students answer the questions on
the handout working quietly, Then teacher asks for the answers
writing on the board.
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15 minutes
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Closure
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Students summarize the text
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5 minutes
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Anticipated Problems and possible solutions
Vocabulary is too hard. Have students look up words in dictionary.
Students don’t have dictionaries. Teacher gives the definitions of
hard words.
Introduction: Paragraphs.
Make a list of elements that make writing interesting:
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Vocabulary:
instantly moguls preliminary injunction pull
the plug appeals court ruling shift membership
testimony entrepreneur rancor legislators topping the charts
royalties munificent reissues bulk existence. Status quo
shut it down
Read the paragraph, underline the elements that you chose
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How does the first sentence of the paragraph attract your attention?
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A topic sentence give the main idea of a paragraph. What is the topic sentence of this paragraph?
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How would you state the main idea of the paragraph?
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What is the purpose of sentence 2?
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What details does the author give?
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What is the conclusion of the article?
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Summarize the paragraph in your own words.
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