Find Synonyms in reading by Vannesa Torres

• Provide extra examples Oral responses • Debates about the topic

For children For teenagers For adults • Videos • Role plays • Pictures • Songs • Stories through images • Magazines • Online games • Role plays • Contests • Pictures • Conversations • Articles • Newspapers • Interviews • Pictures

Reflection

Did I achieve the goal Yes, because after the activity students are aware of animals in danger using the KLW chart. What should I continue on doing? To motivate students to continue reading any kind of text to improve their reading comprehension. What should I change?

I maybe change the accommodations in each activity avoiding being redundant with them.

Activity name: Find the synonyms in a reading Vannesa Torres

Skills /subskills Reading: skinning, vocabulary, comprehension

Description

Roles T: provide the reading text Provide the list of words. SS: Find the synonyms in the text Note down A2 Level

Goal To read and develop skimming subskill through finding synonyms in a text. CEFR descriptors Overall reading comprehension • Can understand short, simple texts containing the highest frequency vocabulary, including a proportion of shared international vocabulary items.

Reading for orientation

• Can find specific information in practical, concrete, predictable texts (e.g. travel guidebooks, recipes), provided they are produced in simple language.

Reading for information and argument

• Can identify specific information in simpler material they encounter such as letters, brochures and short news articles describing events.

Reading as a leisure activity

• Can understand enough to read short, simple stories and comic strips involving familiar, concrete situations described in high frequency everyday language.

Identifying cues and inferring

• Can deduce the meaning and function of unknown formulaic expressions from their position in a text (e.g. at the beginning or end of a letter).

Directions

Before the activity ✓ Provide a vocabulary about sports ✓ Provide a list of 10 words about the vocabulary During the activity ✓ Recognize the vocabulary ✓ Underline the words After the activity ✓ Find synonyms of the words ✓ Write down the synonyms

Accommodations

For beginners For Intermediate For Advanced Using with technology

Present the vocabulary using flashcards Videos Present the sports vocabulary in a short text Look synonyms of simple vocabulary Worksheets Create a list of synonyms about the sports Replace the words with synonyms about the sports Write about your favorite sport using the words of the vocabulary Padlet Jamboard Wordwall Liveworksheet Educaplay Digital books

For children For teenagers For adults Reading with pictures Pictograms Worksheets Songs Videos Lectures about sports Videos Writing about their favorite sports. Make a mind map Express an experience with their favorite sport using synonyms and antonyms.

about sports

Reflection

Did I achieve the goal What should I continue on doing? What should I change?