A Matrix On Developing A Lesson in Reading: En4V-Iiif-38
A Matrix On Developing A Lesson in Reading: En4V-Iiif-38
A Matrix On Developing A Lesson in Reading: En4V-Iiif-38
While Reading
>Children read article. Encourage them to
pause and think about they are reading.
>They will underline the words introduced
during the pre-reading Story by Oscar O’neal
>They take note of what the people thought
of the film.
>They will visualize with the use of the Using words in sentences
diagram the meaning of the word excellent, 1. Rhea got a perfect
dynamite, thought, theatre. score in her test. Her
Use the Diagram of the teacher says, _______,
meaning of the words. Rhea!
Post Reading Students can work by teams 2. Many were injured
because of the
Vocabulary Development explosion of a
>Ask if they were able to find the words ___________.
from text. 3. The man thought that
Present the sentences and let them say the the artworks were
meaning of words by using the context ______!
clues. 4. The people _____that
is crazy.
5. We watched together
in a _______.
B. Compare the connotation Language Integration Allow students to go back to Student’s performance during
and denotation. Ask questions that will check students’ the text to look for or verify the Q and A.
comprehension and introduce the language information.
focus as well. Practice and Feedback
Make the exchange conversational. Students will complete the
>Denotation is the literal meaning of a word paragraph.
from a dictionary. What is connotation?
>What is the literal meaning of excellent?
>What is the connotation of excellent? What
is the problem of the reporter?
>Use the questions and students’ responses
to highlight the language structure
Directions: Complete the paragraph by writing the missing words. Choose your answer from word pool below. ( Note: You can use the word
twice )
One day the children decided to go on a trip in a forest. They wore ______ color shirt. When they arrived they immediately saw a
______ in between the stones. Everybody is ________to move a step forward. Nobody creates a ______ sound. Accidentally Nica slips on the
ground and slightly pushed Kiko. Nica says sorry but Kiko’s heart was like a _____. He never accepted her apology.
A TV reporter wanted to find out what people thought of the new film, so she decided to interview people as they came out of the
theatre. She asked one woman what she thought of the film. “ It was excellent”, the woman replied. “ I thought it was the best film
I’ve seen in years.”
Then she stopped a man and asked him the same question. “ It was dynamite!” he said. He was surprised to see the reporter dive to the
ground and cover her earns. He bent down to ask her what the trouble was.
“ Where is it?” she whispered.
“Where’s what? He asked.
“The dynamite!” she shouted. “ Where’s the dynamite?”
This reporter had a problem. She understood what the word “ dynamite “ meant, but she didn’t understand what the young man meant.
In other words she understood the denotation, but not the connotation, of the word.