ACTIVITY FOR FIELD-INDEPENDENCE STUDENT Lesson plan Reading strategy training Learners/Skills Level Approximate Class Time Main

Focus Objectives : Crossing Out Unfamiliar Items : Intermediate students : 50 minutes - 1 hour :

Build learner confidence as regards ability to understand difficult texts. Assist learners in adopting and using reading strategies which will boost their reading rate proficiency while increasing their overall reading comprehension.

Necessary Materials : Some basic visual props (eg, pages from an art magazine), news article related to lesson theme which is to be divided in half, photocopies for students, clock. This lesson plan has been devised to teach learners to develop the habit of forgoing unfamiliar items for main idea comprehension and may be used most effectively as a segment of a series of lessons, each structured around a specific reading strategy (eg, reading for gist, scanning for details, crossing out subordinate details, etc). Naturally, this lesson plan can have as its theme a variety of topics and is given here merely as a sample from which teachers might draw ideas: any number of topics can be substituted for the one given here. Teachers should choose a reading context they feel would be of general interest to their learners. Warm-up Activity (Set Induction): For Eg. The Blues As a visual aid, the teacher may choose to walk quietly around the classroom holding up a few examples of art where shades of blue are particularly appealing or striking, such as in the the Impressionist work of Monet, or in Picasso's Blue Period. Another option is to read off a few lines of poetry and/or popular song lyrics that speak about the blues, such as "My love is blue," etc. Activity 1: Timed Reading Teacher hands out text: an excerpt from a recent magazine article (i.e, first half) on how different cultures respond to feeling blue.

Teacher asks students to read though the passage quickly, but not so fast otherwise they will miss the overall meaning. The students are also need to note how long they take to read and understand the text.

Activity 2: Crossing Out Unfamiliar Items Teacher gives another passage from the same article. This time, while the students read, they need to cross out all the unfamiliar words using pencil and continue reading. Again, they write down how long it takes to read through the passage. Context Clues (Optional): At this point, the teacher might wish to engage the class in identifying the specific "context clues" in the second passage which helped facilitates main idea reading comprehension. This is done in pairs or small groups. (If the students are not familiar with the concept of "context clues," this is an ideal opportunity to introduce them to this important reading strategy.) Research Assignment Students research a magazine, newspaper, or internet article in English related to the blues. This could include anything from the Black American Blues music tradition to Picasso's early artistic development, historical investigation into the Elisabethan origins of 'blues' expressions in English, or merely some learner reflections as to why the color blue might be so often associated with sad moods in colloquial English. After having read the article they've selected or reflected long enough, students next write a brief summary.

ACTIVITY FOR FIELD-DEPENDENCE STUDENT Lesson plan Strategy Learners/Skills Level Approximate Class Time Main Focus Objectives : Observe and identify the cross section : Intermediate students : 50 minutes - 1 hour :

The instructional activities justified at the lower levels of thought to assist the student in progressing to higher levels of geometric understanding To be able to characterize shapes in terms of properties. Students can identify, explain and write subclass relations- for example, all squares are rectangle, all rectangles are parallellogram Necessary Materials : A 3-dimension solid (Cube, cuboid), worksheets Warm-up Activity (Set Induction): For Eg. Guess the shape The teacher shows several things in the classroom for example duster, whiteboard, eraser and etc to the students. Then, the teacher ask them to name the type of solid based on the things showed. Activity 1: Instructional activity Teachers choose a solid and ask student to look for its cross sections, such a rectangular solid which is a cuboid (Figure 1). They are asked to find a cross section that has the shape of a triangle. A problem like this encourages students to review the word triangle, and to see how triangle relate the other figures

Figure 1

Activity 2 To begin this activity, some triangles should be constructed. Students are asked to make two triangles and compare them with friends. The description is written in the note book. Then, they are asked to meke a triangle that has three congruent triangle, that has exactly two congruent sides and has no congruent sides. Then, the students select the figures that satisfy each of the sets of properties below and state their names.