Pre-reading Activity Lesson Plan

Pre-reading Activity Lesson Plan

Student’s name:  Lidiane Soares Barbosa

Mentor's name: Leandra Hill

Book’s name: Do you know which ones will grow?

Objective:  Students will be able to identify various nouns and the idea of increasing objects and animals.

Content Objectives: Students will be able to make humorous comparisons.  Here they can use their background knowledge.

Language Objective:  The language objective is to introduce nouns and make comparisons.

Learning Strategy Objective: The book will allow students to use their imagination to do similarities with other nouns and also to interact with their classmates in helping those to find out the name of the objects will become bigger. The book will be the model to this activity.

Activate Background Knowledge: The background knowledge will be active when students will be in groups making comparisons with objects in their classrooms and/or during grouping work after the pre-reading book.

The class starts (50 minutes class)

Introduce new vocabulary:  The teacher shows pictures of some objects or animals to students.  Teacher writes on the board the words making students speak out the pronunciation of them. The   teacher put pictures on the board and read the book in parts to present the new vocabulary in a slow way.  After showing the pictures, teacher gives students a sheet and makes them to complete the pictures with the correct name of the objects or animals. The new vocabulary to be introduced is: duckling/duck; car/truck; cub/bear; stool/chair; kitten/cat; cap/hat; kid/goat/ sweater/coat; owlet/owl; washcloth/towel; calf/caw; shovel/plow; snakelet/snake; cupcake/cake; piglet/pig; pickup truck/rig; kit/fox; watch/clock and joey/kangaroo.

Picture Walk:  After introducing the new vocabulary, teacher starts the picture walk in reading a book in a loud and expressive voice calling students attention when nouns change size.  It is important here that the teacher demonstrates enthusiasm motivating students to find out which object or thing will become if increased.

If time allows (or doing in next class)

Closure/Reporting back: After having read the book to students, the teacher may use students’ background knowledge to make a similar activity from the book using objects or animals they already know. Students discuss in groups or in pairs and present afterwards to their classmates.