B5 English Language · Term 2 Week 3: Comprehension

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B5.2.7.1.1 - Construct meaning from text read

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Activate their prior knowledge or experience about a topic before and during reading to help them understand a text.
Make and revise predictions about a text based on its title, pictures, and the first few sentences.
Use the context of surrounding words and sentences to work out the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary in a text.
Combine prior knowledge, predictions, and contextual clues to explain, in their own words, what a short passage means.
Identify at least two reading strategies they used and say how each one helped them construct meaning.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Reading (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Comprehension (2.7)
Content standard: B5.2.7.1 - Process and comprehend level appropriate texts
Indicator: B5.2.7.1.1 - Construct meaning from text read
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 3 (Week 15 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: English Language Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 99
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Choose different texts for learners to make meaning from using the different strategies they are familiar with:
- Use of prior knowledge/experience.
- Making predictions
- Contextual meaning of vocabulary to connect with the other words to make meaning.