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Class Name and Level: Practicum Teacher’s Name: Alexa Valencia

LESSON PLAN
Year 7/8

Date 26/10 Time and length 11.05am-12.05pm 1 hour

of lesson
Language Sentence Structure Topic Festivals
Focus/Skill/s Information Text
Lesson No. 4

Class Profile
Mixed gender Background from Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Nepal and Russia
aged 12-14 Developing abilities.

What do students already know?

Students are already aware of past simple; past continuous; past perfect

Aims: Create a cohesive text with a variety of sentence types, incorporating research in an information report text type structure.

Objectives: Students will:

 Finish gathering information on their festival
 Write an introduction, clear headings, full sentences and a conclusion
 Use a mixture of simple, compound and complex sentences.
Key Language (vocabulary)
 festival plagiarism
 tradition headings
 research
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Modifications/Elaborations for individual student needs/Differentiation

 Different levels of assistance from teacher

Timing Sequenced Teaching and Learning Grouping Resources

Introduction/Warmer Teams White board

5 mins  Scategories: A-Z is written in a column on two sides of the board. 2x markers
 The class is divided into 2
 When the timer starts, each team must fill out their side of the board with countries or cities
starting with each letter of the alphabet
 The team with the most letters filled out at the end of the time limit, or the team who finishes
the alphabet first, wins.
Body
15mins  Recap of last lesson- ask ss where they are up to Individual School Laptops
 Make clear that this will be handed in at the end of the lesson
 Give direction for 10 mins: ss are to complete missing elements of their research. T will check
in at the end of the 10 mins for re-orientation.
5 mins  If needed, ss who have not finished their research will pair with someone who has finished Pair
their research to help them finish

20 mins  Remind ss of informative report structure. Go through potential headings and expectations of
paragraphs and sentences. Individual
 Ss to complete
 If ss finish early, they can work on the design of their pamphlet

10 mins  Students to read through what they have so far. Ask them to edit their work according to the Individual Writing traits posters
writing traits posters. Save and send to T
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Conclusion
3 mins  Each ss is given a post it note. T asks ss to write their name at the top of their post Post it notes
it note and write a number from 1-10, 1 being the worst and 10 the best, to rate Individual
their information pamphlet. Hand to teacher

Assessment of student learning

 This piece of writing is judged against the DoE EAL/D progress map.
 Feedback to be written on paper and returned to ss