Weaving It Together

Sample Lesson Plan
Each chapter in Weaving It Together, Book 3,
follows a carefully designed sequence of
activities, which guides students through
the process of connecting reading to
writing. Each chapter takes approximately
2 hours of class time.
Lesson 1 (60 minutes)
1. Unit Photo and Warm-Up
(10 minutes)
The unit opens with one or more
photos refl ecting the theme of the
unit. Use the photos to ask questions
related to the general theme and to
gather ideas to be used later in the two
chapters. The unit opener also contains
the What Do You Think? activity which
is meant to tap background knowledge
and generate interest in the topic of
the readings in the unit. Have students
complete the What Do You Think?
activity individually. When they have
fi nished, match students with a partner
and have them compare answers and
agree on one answer for each item.
The teaching hints for each chapter
give additional information related to
the chapter theme and creative ways
of introducing the theme, thereby
activating the visual, audio, and
kinesthetic learning styles of students.
2. Chapter Photo, Pre-Reading
Questions (5 minutes)
Use the chapter photo to elicit more
focused discussion on the topic of the
reading. Use the pre-reading questions
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to introduce the specifi c theme of
the chapter. Activating students’
background knowledge of the topic will
make the readings easier to understand.
3. Predicting (5 minutes)
This activity helps students focus
more closely on the material they will
encounter in the reading. The aim of
the predicting activity is not to fi nd
the correct answers (though they may
check the answers after doing the
reading), but to develop the skill of
anticipating what the text is going to
be about by looking at a few key items.
The predicting activity in Unit 2, for
example, encourages students to guess
the meaning of words and compare
their guesses with the meanings in the
reading; the predicting activity in Unit
4 encourages students to guess what
the story is about by looking at a few of
the key words.
4. Vocabulary and Comprehension
Questions (25 minutes)
To encourage rapid and effective
reading skills, you may wish to follow
this pattern:
a. Ask students two or three easy
comprehension questions that
guide them to the main points of
the reading. (See the teaching hints
for suggested questions.) Set a time
limit of about 3 minutes for students
to fi nd the answers quickly.
b. Have students read the Vocabulary
in Context questions, work in
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