Miami Dade College – State Leadership Grant – ESOL 1 – Literacy Foundations

Systematic Phonics/Reading Comprehension Skills – Lesson 12

Use with 4.0 Applied Technology – Benchmark 4.01

Demonstrate knowledge of operating equipment necessary for home and work.

Objective: Systematic Phonics: 1) Students will identify and pronounce all vowel and consonant sounds with 80% mastery.  2) Students will divide words into syllables with 80% mastery.

                   Reading Comprehension: Students will form and answer questions related to literal (main idea, use of context clues, identification of supporting details) and critical (inference, purpose, fact and opinion) with 80% mastery.

                                                                                                                                                                                                 Materials:

Word Bank:

- Separate          - Separately          - Warm          - Label                  - Clothing         - Clothes

- Washer           - Dryer                   - Cool            - Cold                    - Hot                  - Heat

- Dry                  - Wash                   - Wash         - Tumble               - Hang               - Drip

- Line                 - Iron                      - Press          - Flat                      - Garment          - Dry clean

- Fade                - Bleach                 - Shrink         - Softener              - Silk                   - Wool

- Cotton            - Terry cloth          - Color          - Detergent           - Fluff

 
                                                                                                                                                  - Clothing labels

             - Chalkboard

             - Chalk

             - Markers

             - Paper

             - Pencils

             - Vocabulary Journals

             - Directions for a piece of home

                machinery (example: microwave, washing machine)

 

Activities- (A) : This bank of activities is designed to add Systematic Phonics, Vocabulary Development, and Reading Comprehension Skills instruction into ESOL Level 1 lessons.  The activities may be used as a whole-class period or incorporated in 20-minute segments over several days, as the teacher deems appropriate.  Activities may be used in large-group or small-group settings.

 

Homework- (H):  This bank of activities is designed to add Systematic Phonics, Vocabulary Development, and Reading Comprehension Skills instruction into ESOL Level 1 homework assignments.  Assignments may be given on a daily, bi-weekly, or weekly basis, as deemed appropriate by the teacher.  Research shows that increased reading in the target language improves fluency, comprehension, and language acquisition.

 

(A1) - After a lesson introducing vocabulary and concepts related to use of applied technology, discuss types of technology found in the home.  Explain that you are going to practice reading directions for a washing machine because this is found in most homes and is a piece of equipment that all students are familiar with.  Use clothing labels to review vowel and consonant sounds by asking students to read labels aloud.  Ask students as a group to correct for pronunciation of sounds.  Ask detail and inference questions about information from labels.  (Example: Detail – Can you wash cotton in hot water? Inference – What will happen if you wash cotton in hot water?) 

(H1) - Ask students to write directions for use of a piece of machinery found in their home.

 

(A2) - Play a label matching game.  Ask students to describe a piece of clothing and match the correct label to the item.  (Example: This is a dress made of very delicate material.  You cannot wash it in hot water.  Answer – Silk, wash in cool water).

(H2) - Choose one article of clothing and write directions for washing and drying the article, using vocabulary from exercises.

 

(A3) - Discuss problems that may occur when washing clothes; use new vocabulary.  (Example: the item may shrink or fade)  Use language experience approach to write a story about a bad experience washing clothes.  Use new vocabulary in the story.  Read the story aloud to review pronunciation.  Ask students to divide words into syllables as a review of syllabication.

(H3) - Continue at-home reading, adding to vocabulary journals (2 days).

 

(A4) - Have a scavenger hunt using the story from the previous activity.  Ask students to find words with specific vowel/consonant sounds or numbers of syllables.

(H4) - Continue at-home reading, adding to vocabulary journals (2 days).

 

Evaluation:  Participation in group activity; 80% mastery syllabication activity; 80% mastery of comprehension skills activity.