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Appendix I
LESSON 1
LESSON PLAN
Class
Primary 6
Initial information
Time
45 min
Date
27/03/2003
Title/Topic:
A text about the Yanomami
aboriginals in the Amazon
river
AIMS
Aims: To help students develop reading skills in order to be able to take meaning
from texts and not read mechanically. To help them read flexibly applying different
skills according to the purpose of reading. To use both top-down and bottom-up
strategies in order to create meaning from texts.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
Use skimming in order to understand the overall organization of a text and
get the gist.
Use scanning to locate specific information.
Make inferences.
Guess the meaning of words from the context.
To understand cohesive ties and anaphoric relations.
Relate personal experiences to new knowledge and practice extensive
reading.
Students’ background: The teacher needs to take into consideration the level of
proficiency of her students, and in case there are students who underachieve, care
should be taken so that they are helped by more competent peers.
Anticipated problems: Children are used to asking for any unknown words and they
do not feel confident until all words are explained. The text is about an Indian tribe
whose name is not known to the children. Some background information might be
necessary. This will be achieved by the use of photos referring to the area and the
people.
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