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Understanding ideas—Reading
　　　　　Study of the Text　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
What: The text presents a narrative about pigeons and their transformation throughout five days, accompanied by daily images and related reading comprehension exercises.
Why: The author’s intent is to engage students in a relatable and entertaining story and foster their understanding of character development and emotional growth. Additionally, the text serves as a tool for improving students’ reading skills and vocabulary expansion, as well as instilling students’ empathy for others’ experiences.
How: The story unfolds through a series of short paragraphs and illustrations, detailing pigeons’ experience and emotions. The text uses basic vocabulary and sentence patterns that appropriate for students, while the accompanying exercises aim to enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary learning.
　　　　　Teaching Objectives　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
1.learn more facts about animals and understand the wonders of animals.
2.understand others’ thoughts and feelings about animals from the words and tones.
3.use the “opinion-fact” logic to talk about our feelings of animals.
　　　　　Teaching Process　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Teaching Objectives Teaching Activities Effectiveness Evaluation
1.To learn more facts about animals and understand the wonders of animals. Step 1　Pre-reading Present a picture of pigeons and raise questions as follows: (1)What are these animals (2)What do you think of them Step 2　Fast Reading 1.Students quickly read the content of the slides and find out what words Henry uses to describe pigeons. 2.Students are required to read quickly again and find out another suitable title of this text and give reasons. Choose another suitable title and give your reasons. a. Clever Pigeons b. Pigeons in the Park c. Amazing Pigeons d. People and Pigeons Assess students’ preliminary understanding by their responses to the presented questions, consider their attentiveness to the images and their ability to identify the animals correctly and express their opinions succinctly and coherently about pigeons. Assess students’ fast reading comprehension by their accuracy of identifying descriptive words used by Henry and their effectiveness in proposing alternative titles with supporting reasons, demonstrating their understanding and critical thinking.
Purpose Students will be stimulated interest and initiated discussion, and be cultivated the ability of quick comprehension and critical analysis.
2.To understand others’ thoughts and feelings about animals from the words and tones. 3.To use the “opinion- fact” logic to talk about our feelings of animals. Step 3　Careful Reading Students are required to read the text further and fill in the blanks about Henry’s change of views towards pigeons. Step 4　Further Thinking A question is presented: How does Henry change his attitudes And then, two detailed questions are raised to help students answer this general one. (1)Why does Henry write this blog (2)What does Henry do for studying pigeons Find the sentences in the blog. At last, the theme of this text is presented. “Only through learning, careful observation, looking up information, etc., can we understand something more fully.” Assess students’ detailed reading comprehension by their accuracy in completing the blanks which reflect Henry’s shifting perspective on pigeons, and their ability to justify their answers with evidence from the text. Evaluate the depth of students’ understanding by their capacity to analyse Henry’s attitude shift, their ability to infer the purpose behind Henry’s blog writing, and their skill in locating and interpreting relevant information from the text to support their answers.
Purpose Through these two activities, students will foster close reading and textual analysis and promote critical thinking and inference skills.
Homework Required: Familiarise yourself with the new words and phrases in this lesson. Optional: Use the words and expressions learned in this lesson to retell the process of learning about pigeons.
　　　　　Teaching Reflection　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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