DEVELOPING LESSON PLAN

In order to understand how this lesson plan

developed, it is necessary for me to first
outline my objectives. They were twofold:
1.I wanted the benefits of using
authentic materials - exposure to cultural
knowledge, enhanced motivation and
authentic responses to the material.
2. I also wanted to develop students'
general reading fluency and their ability
to use context to garner the meaning of
unknown words.

 Discussing both content and

vocabulary should be taken into
count 60-90 minutes lesson.
40 minutes lesson is not sufficient
as there will be a lack of time.
Content-free generic newspaper
article lesson enables a value for
the teachers work.

 Discussing the students personal

response is a good plan where they
are more likely to learn world
knowledge's and new vocabulary.
The techniques being used in the
classroom should match with the
requirement of fullfiling the benefits
of using authentic materials.

A BASIC NEWSPAPER ARTICLE LESSON

Introduction -- The Headline

show the students the

headline and follow up with
the five Ws to have the
students speculate on the
possible content of the
article.
5 Ws (who, what, where,

3. have the students compare their

notes in pairs.
4. have the students read the
underlined parts of the story to get
the gist of the story (teachers will
usually underline these themselves
before class).
5. have them go through the five Ws
either in pairs or as a whole class
activity.
6. enforce strict time limits in all
reading stages (one to three

The Story Lead

1. re-introduce the five Ws by having
the students to write down the
question words in columns on a piece
of paper.
2. then have the students read the story
lead to see if they can determine the
answer to the questions of who,
what, where, when, and why

The Remainder of the Story

students build on the

information they learned
from reading the story lead.
using the same piece of
paper, they read the entire
article to get more
information about how and

Vocabulary

Building

select some of the more complex

vocabulary and include it at the end of
the article.
In this section of the lesson, we review
vocabulary keywords and encourage
the students to speculate on the
meaning of unknown vocabulary by
using yes/no questions; for example
Does x mean y?.

Awareness

Raising

focus on improving the students'

exposition skills.
provide them with a basic model they can
use to give opinions about the story.
inform them that they should be prepared
to make statements about the article and
back these up with supporting statements.
inform them to respond to the opinions of
other students

Application
a type of discussion task
the aim of which is to have students respond to
the content of the article. The questions are
1.What are the main points of the article?
2.What is the nature of the problem that's
identified?
3.What, if anything, do you think needs to be/can
be done about (the problem)?
. allow the students to take the discussion to
where they wanted.

The Story Lead -- The 5Ws

and Intensive Extensive
Reading
5 W's (who, what, where,
when, why, how)
this technique provided the
students with a framework
to guide their processing of
the article and this
facilitated comprehension.

The Story Lead -- Highlighting

for Gist
underline sections of the text that
would give the students a sense of
the gist of the article.
had them read these sections .
allowed students to get a better
sense of gist and allowed them to
speak about the contents of the
article more confidently

Vocabulary Building -- Using

Context to Guess the Meaning of
Unknown Words

newspapers present a
unique opportunity for
building vocabulary.
Apply certain strategies
Eg: -Repeated Exposure to
Words,
-illustrative example and

Conclusion
Using newspaper is one of
effective ways to teach
children about language.
Easy, smart, quick and
efficient.

THANK YOU