Resources for Educators
Education Resources for teachers including lesson plans linked to specific curriculum objectives
The following Lesson Plans may be used with the physical card decks or used with digital decks included with each plans.
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Lesson Plan E-011 (Middle/High School)
Lesson Plan E-011 (Middle/High School)
Description: This fiction pre-reading activity uses conversation cards to help students establish purpose, context and motivation for reading. It involves viewing, speaking, listening and writing, and it can work with all genres of fiction, including film. For purposes of demonstrating the approach, the fiction used in teaching examples is Romeo and Juliet; teachers will find it easy to adjust the lesson to whatever fiction they are employing in class.
Additional Information:
suggestions for pre-lesson preparation by teacher
teaching example and group activities encouraging students to use conversation cards to share ideas about topics related to the fiction piece
large group activity to get class focussed for reading
instructions for guided individual reflection to allow teacher to get a snapshot of students’ perceptions, prior knowledge, attitudes and requests for accommodating reading needs, before reading begins
suggestions for how to use information gleaned from student reflections to create reading activities