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Lesson Presentation on Prezi
To click on the image below to view the Prezi presentation that shows one possible way to organize the lesson. Scroll down for more communicative activities, downloadable worksheets and interactive activities.
ch in chicken – Activity 1: Warm-up (Ordering in a restaurant)
Students watch the first 2 minutes of the video clip and answer the following questions: 1) What are they doing? 2) What do they order? This activity is to activate schema of the students and generate discussion about eating out … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 2: Vocabulary introduction
This vocabulary building activity is to introduce all 8 focused words to the students. At this stage, the students do not have to produce the sound or recognize the sound-letter correspondence. They can work individually with their own pace with … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 3: Vocabulary reinforcement
Effective repetition and spiraling are crucial during cognitive process. Engage their multiple intelligences can help literacy students to reinforce the decoding skills for later on reading comprehension. The following 3 activities all have a kinesthetic component for vocabulary building. Focused … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 4: Sound demonstration
One of the challenges ESL literacy students are facing is to learn the sound, the letter and their correspondence at the same time. The following website offers visuals of sound production of both animated anatomy and a real person demonstration. … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 5: Listening discrimination
Listening discrimination is crucial for literacy student to get familiar with the new sound. Depending on their level, the teacher can start by asking students to give short responses, such as raising their hands when they hear /tʃ/ sound, when … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 6: Fill in the consonants and copy
The pre-requisite for this activity is that the students have acquired p, l and s in their previous phonics classes. The following worksheet can be used for different purposes: to test memorizing the focused vocabulary or to use spelling conventions, … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 7: Words in conversation
This is a transition from word level exercises to further real life tasks of speaking and reading. Students read at the sentence level but only need to produce at the word level. Also, they are introduced with the grammar structure … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 8: Role play
Sociolinguistic competencies should be included in ESL literacy phonics activities, along with vocabulary and structure that help ESL students to function in real life. By being able to apply what they learn in the classroom can also motivate them to … Continue reading
ch in chicken – Activity 9: Short story reading
The short story is to engage students in a meaningful task where reading comprehension skills are exercised to apply what they have learned in the previous decoding activities. Focused literacy skill(s): Get information from very basic short texts; Identify specific … Continue reading
Adult ESL Phonics 