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Reading Courseware
for Teachers
Chapter 2 Festivals we like
Learn to Read
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Functions 21st Century Knowledge and Skills
Talking about festivals
Social and cross-cultural skills / critical thinking / information literacy
Reading Skills
Making observations from pictures
Making predictions/ guesses about the text
Locating specific information in response to questions
Inferring meaning from the text
Evaluating the text
Objectives
Reading
Pre-reading – Doing a picture walk
First reading – Shared reading
Second reading – Reading aloud
– Activity 1: Assessment for learning
Post-reading – Activity 2: Readers’ theatre
– Activity 3: Making a Christmas card for Santa
– Activity 4: Happy festivals!
Overview
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Today we are going to read a story.
Let’s look at some pictures!
Pre-reading
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Santa Claus
Where is Santa going?
Do you think it is Christmas now?
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Doing a picture walk
Say Today we’re going to read a story about Santa Claus.
[Click to show an arrow pointing towards Santa Claus.] Ask Who is he? (Santa Claus.) Say Right. He’s Santa Claus. We can call him Santa. Ask When do you see Santa? (At Christmas. / On the 25th of December.) [Click to show the first question] Do you think it’s Christmas now? (Yes. / No.) [Click to show the second question] Where is Santa going? Can you guess? –predicting / guessing
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Can you guess where Santa is?
When do you see a dragon boat?
Do you often see Santa at Dragon Boat Festival?
Doing a picture walk
Say Look at this picture. [Click to zoom in on the boat] AskWhat do you see? (A dragon boat.) [Click to show the first question] Ask Can you guess where Santa is? (e.g. In China.) – observing / predicting
[Click to show the second question] Ask When do you see a dragon boat? At which festival? (At Dragon Boat Festival.) When’s Dragon Boat Festival? In which month or season? (In May / June. / In summer.) What do people do at Dragon Boat Festival? (Eat rice dumplings, have dragon boat races.) – eliciting information