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Strategic Partnership Project (Key action no 2)
“ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH FORMAL
AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION” (ACEAFNE)
CURRICULUM INTEGRATED ACTIVITY
LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL
DATE
TEACHER
CLASS
SUBJECT
CURRICULAR COVERAGE
TOPIC OF THE LESSON
TIME
Lanchester EP Primary School (England)
Spring Term 1 2016
Aidan Stoker
Year 5
English (Life on Land: 15 ~ Rainforests)
English (Reading) / Geography / Science
Reading comprehension
1 hour (formal lesson)
OBJECTIVES
 Children to read text about „Rainforests‟ and then answer questions using their reading
comprehension skills
TEACHING STRATEGIES
 Presentation
 Partner talk
 Independent work
 Video
TEACHING METHOD
 Whole class
 Independent task
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
 Show video clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiwgpA4ReEc to give chn a
„virtual field trip‟ to the rainforest.
 Discuss what we learnt from the video.
 Read „Rainforests‟ text together.
 Highlight key vocab and use dictionaries to find definitions of tricky words.
 Demonstrate how to use the text to find answers to comprehension questions.
 Task: Chn to work independently to answer questions based on the text they have read.
ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT
 Good activity to develop reading skills as well as providing chn with lots of relevant
information about our topic.
STUDENTS‟ IMPACT *
 Important reading skills improved.
CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE STUDENTS‟ BEHAVIOUR, INTEREST, ACTIVITY:
 Chn were engaged and well-behaved.
 Chn answered questions well although some chn struggled with inference type questions so
needed extra support.
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