Lesson 5 -- Week 3, Tuesday, 9:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m.

Outcomes/ Objectives

Activities
1. Opening discussion: Since last time

7 min.

Language
Skills

Learning
Strategies

Critical
Thinking

Class

Recycling and automatization of past

tense form; pronunciation practice of
final consonants; fluency

Speaking/
Listening

Class

Activation of schemata
Fluency, vocabulary building

Speaking/
Listening

Process
analysis

Enhanced skills in more extensive

discourse (writing first, then speaking)
Reclycling learning (paragraph,
vocabulary)

Writing
emphasis
(within four
skills
context)

Analyze
Evaluate
Give
reasons

2. Overview class schedule/learning outcomes 1 min.

Materials
AS = All-Star 3
HO = Handout
(in appendix)

Writing Strategy - continued

3. Warm-up: Advice columnists! 8 min.
Students read their work from yesterday, typed and in the
advice column format. Discussion: Any second thoughts
about advice to children about money? Is the same advice
good for adults making a big purchase?
4. Task: Writing Paragraph using Strategy (Outlining)
a. Review of outlining strategy discussed in previous
class and review of what paragraph is. 5 min.
b. Exercise 1: Create cluster diagram on board (running
shoes example in AS). Illustrate that different ways of
diagraming are OK. Students create an outline from either
cluster diagram individually, check thinking in pairs,
discuss in whole class. 7 min.
c. Students prepare cluster diagram of thinking relating to
their one purchase. Discuss in pairs, with teacher input if
needed. One good cluster diagram can be selected for
review by class. 10 min.
d. Students create outline from diagram; pairs; one in
class. 7 min.
e. Students write paragraph on one HO sheet, following
outline. Students read their own writing to partner, making
any corrections they notice, followed by peer editing.
Students rewrite corrected paragraph to hand in. 15 min.
f. Each student goes back to outline, and with only
outline in hand, shares what they are going to buy and why
using realia they brought as part of presentation. 10 min.

Class
ClassInd.PairClass
Cycle

Main idea
(Outlining)
Details
Advance
Planning

HO #14
(Teacher- or
student-prepared
typed Dear Abby
column of what was
written in the
previous class)

HO #15
(Xeroxes of AS, p.
75, as worksheet)

AS, p. 75, #2
AS, p. 75, #3
AS, p. 75, #4

Realia students
bring

Break

15 min.

Reading Strategy
5. Warm-up: What do you like to read? When do you like
to read? 5 min
6. Activity: Reading for Main Idea 20 min
a. Instruction using AS material (p. 72, box); call
attention to vocabulary word families.
b. Follow form of reading section in AS (pp. 72-73, #1,
#2, #3), but using materials reflecting student interests
identified during Lesson 1 (and during ongoing unit
work; these should be authentic (or adapted ).
c. Discuss work in groups of three, then in class.

Assessment
7. Unit Assessment 25 min.
a. Explanation of why we do assessments.
b. Formal Assessment (Unit Quiz): Handed in.
c. Student self-assessment of what learned
d. Teacher reflection

Class

Activation of schemata

Class

Recycling (main idea strategy,

vocabulary, word families, grammar
forms)
Fluency in reading

Ind.
Group
Class

Class
Ind.
Class

Focus on
form
Reading/
Writing
Speaking/
Listening

Assess progress and chart progress

(student and teacher)

AS, p. 72, box

Read for main
idea/details
Note-taking

Reading/
Writing/
Listening

Project: Storycorps
9. Project work 15 min.
a. Continuation of project work (practice interviews)
10. Wrap-up; Preview of Next Class; Homework 3 min.

Groups Fluency
Class Creative and authentic language use
Outcome/product focused language use

Four skills

Class

HOMEWORK:
(1) Regular
Group assignment: Write a paragraph to hand in about your Language
Log. (This will, as usual, be the focus for discussion in class.)

HO #16
(To be developed:

(1) one longer

reading chosen from
the areas students
identified, with
questions following
the form on AS, 73,
#1 ; (2) three very
short paragraphs
also in area of
student interest,
following form on
AS, p. 73, #2)

HO #17
(Unit Quiz: Contains
brief and reading
listening elements,
with comprehension
exercises (e.g.,
cloze, matching);
vocabulary review
including word family
relationships (AS, p.
71, #2) adapted to
reflect actual key
words in unit).