EDLA 519 Assessment 2 .

Template 1: Teaching Plan Outline for 2 weeks

1.

Outcomes
EN3-3A
EN3-6B

2.

EN3-3A

Designing, Selecting and Sequencing Activities

Preparation for reading: Predicting genre and storyline
- Students will be given copies of Light Horse Boy by
Dianne Wolfer
- Students will look at the front cover
- Think-pair-share activity about aspects of visual literacy
- Selected student to read the blurb of the book, rest of the
class follow using individual copies
- Think-pair-share activity discussing which genre they
think it might belong to (teacher can offer examples:
adventure, comedy, historical, science-fiction, romance
etc)
- Class discussion: what language and visual literacy
features made you think that?
- Students to write short predications about the storyline of
the book
- Students to write any unfamiliar words on posit it notes
(eg. Light Horse), definitions will be explained and post-its
will remain stuck to the board to be used in next lesson
- Students to watch trailer of book
https://youtu.be/5D1ME9YwMaA

Resources
Assessment
- Class set of - Formative
Light
assessment
Horse Boy
of students
by Dianne
fluency as
Wolfer
they read
- Work
blurb and
books
their
- Interactive
predictions
White
- Summative
Board
assessment
- Youtube
of written
work to
determine
students
level of
comprehensi
on of blurb
and ability to
use this
information
to make
inferences
about genre
and storyline
of novel

Ongoing task: Creating a word bank 1 hour lesson

Class set of - observation of

EDLA 519 Assessment 2 . Template 1: Teaching Plan Outline for 2 weeks

EN3-6B

During shared reading before commencing this lesson,

students were required to underline any words that were
unfamiliar to them
Class discussion: students will say one of their selected
words then read aloud the whole sentence that the word
is in
- As a class, students will discuss what they think the
definition of the word is and how they think the chosen
word adds meaning to the sentence
- Teacher will use a table to model how students will set out
their own:
Word Definition
How is it used in the book to add
meaning?

3.

EN3 8D

Examining language: comparison of language features

-

students word
choices and use
of context to
determine
meaning
- analysis of use
of table and
ability to
effectively use
dictionary and
understand the
word within the
context of the
novel

Copies of
passages
from novel
and
website

- observation of
students
understanding
of language
features through

Teacher will go through a number of examples before

students are to make thie own in their work books and
begin filling it in
Selected students will read one example each to the class
Students will discuss how word choices help convey
meaning and historical setting
This will be an on-going task students will fill out as
homework task

EN3-2A
EN3-6B

Light Horse
Boy
Work
books,
pencils,
pens
IWB

Teacher lead discussion about different language features

used in historical texts and fiction texts (punctuation,

EDLA 519 Assessment 2 . Template 1: Teaching Plan Outline for 2 weeks

nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.)

-

Students will be given a short passage from the book and

a historical account of the Battle of Beersheba

Students will read silently and work independently to find

examples of words and language features

Students to write examples in work book

Students will regroup and choose one example to write on

a post it note to stick on the board under different
headings Fiction text and Historical Text

4.

EN3-6B
EN3-3A

Selected students will read their chosen word/punctuation

feature in their original sentence and explain why this is
feature is specific to the text type and what effect it has
for the reader
Examining language: creating an emotive language word
wall
- Discussion: how does the author uses emotive language
to describe events and situations?
- Students will work in partners
- Groups will receive two selected letters from the novel
- Each student will read one letter each aloud to the other.
- As each student reads, the other will write down
examples of emotive words
- Students will discuss chosen words with each other and
make additions if need be
- Students will regroup and use create a class word wall

Work
books
Post-it
notes

verbal
explanation
- assessment of
students post-it
notes and their
verbal
justification for
choice of
example
- ability to read
sentence
fluently and
demonstrate
comprehension
of the chosen
example in its
context

Class set of Light Horse

Boy
Selected
passages

Observation
of students
ability to
read fluently
and
articulate
their
understandin
g of the
passages
Assessment

EDLA 519 Assessment 2 . Template 1: Teaching Plan Outline for 2 weeks

using the interactive white board

of chosen
words and
verbal
explanation
of these
words