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Reading Courseware
for Teachers
Chapter 4 More about animals
Learn to Read
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Functions 21st Century Knowledge and Skills
Describing wild animals: appearance, abilities
Talking about what animals are doing
Critical thinking
Civic literacy
Reading Skills
Giving personal responses to the text
Inferring meaning from the text
Making observations from pictures
Supporting inferences or judgments about the text with reasoning
Verifying information and ideas in the text
Objectives
Reading
Pre-reading – Introducing the setting
First reading – Shared reading
Second reading – Reading aloud
– Activity 1: Assessment for learning
Post-reading – Activity 2: Readers’ theatre
– Activity 3: Guess the animals
– Activity 4: What are they doing?
Overview
Today we are going to read a story.
Let’s look at some pictures!
Pre-reading
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Milly
Mum
Dad
Danny
What animals can you see in a zoo?
Milly and her family are at the zoo.
Introducing the setting
Say Today we are going to read a story about Milly's family.
Display the picture and say Look! Here is Milly's family. These people are Milly, Mum, Dad and Danny. Can you guess where they are? (At the zoo.) Say That’s right! [Click to show the narration] Milly and her family are at the zoo. – inferring
Say Look at the picture. How do they feel? Happy or sad? (Happy.) Why? (e.g. They see some animals in the zoo.) What about you? Are you happy when you go to the zoo? – observing / giving personal responses
[Click to show the question] Ask What animals can you see in a zoo? (e.g. Lions, monkeys, tigers, elephants, pandas.) – eliciting information / relating the text to the world
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What are they?
Let’s look at some animals in the zoo!
Introducing the setting
Say Let’s look at some animals in the zoo! What are they?
[Click to show the panda] Ask What animal is this? (A panda.) – observing
Say Let’s look at the next animal!
Continue to introduce the elephant and the tiger. [Click to show each animal]
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fly
run
climb
What