JHS3 Arabic · Term 3 Week 5: Critical Reading

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B9.3.4.2.1 - Show the ability to engage in critical reading of a text by indicating how word changes meanings and understanding.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify key words in a given Arabic text and explain why those words stand out to them.
Distinguish between the dictionary meaning and the contextual meaning of unfamiliar Arabic words.
Determine the type of writing (narration, description, argument, dialogue, etc.) of a given Arabic passage and justify their answer.
Explain how changing a single word in a sentence alters the overall meaning of the text.
Use dictionary skills to find the literary meanings of new Arabic words and compare these with their inferred contextual meanings.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Reading (Strand 3)
Sub-strand: Critical Reading (3.4)
Content standard: B9.3.4.2 - Learner demonstrates knowledge and appreciation about text analysis and reading techniques.
Indicator: B9.3.4.2.1 - Show the ability to engage in critical reading of a text by indicating how word changes meanings and understanding.
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 5 (Week 29 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.
Source document note: The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

exemplars - p.102: 1 glyph(s) in this cell have no entry in the PDF's character map, and are stored as U+FFFD. They print as ordinary Arabic letters, but the file does not say which letters, so they are not guessed. See REPORT-arabic.md section 9 item 4
Curriculum reference: Arabic, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 102
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Build your vocabulary by answering the following:
- Which words do you notice first? Why?
- Look up any unfamiliar words.
- Look in the Dictionary for their literary meanings.
- What do they actually mean here?
- What type of writing is the passage? (For example, narration, description, argument, dialogue, rhymed or alliterative poetry, etc.)
. اُ  ذك ِ  رالكلمات ادلعرونة من النص -. اُ  ذك ْ  رالكلمات ا ْ  لديدة -
.استنتج معاين الكلمات ا ْ  لديدة يف س�ق النص -احبث عن الكلمات ا ْ  لديدة يف القاموس -. قارن تعرين القاموس مع ما استنتجتو -