Reading Comprehension

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Reading Comprehension

• Theme World of Animals
• Topic Sea creatures (English Year 3, pg 32)
• Class 3 Bakawali (Average to weak pupils)
• Time 60 minutes
• Specifications
• 3.1.1 Recognise and understand words by reading
  and matching
• 3.6.1 Scan for specific information
• 3.6.6 State the collective nouns
• 3.8.1 Read and respond verbally to events
• 3.9.1 Read and give details about the people and
  animals in the story
• 3.11.1

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Pre ReadingActivity A

• Get pupils to guess the name of the animals found
  in the picture
• Pupils are picked at random to answer.

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Pre ReadingActivity A (3.1.1) Identify the sea
creatures below.
4.
1.
a dolphin
a whale
5.
a stingray
6.
a turtle
a swordfish
2.
7.
a boxfish
8.
an octopus
a cockle
3.
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Pre Reading Activity B (

• Guess the sea creature in the picture.

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While ReadingActivity A (3.6.1)Read the text.
Tick the statements which are True (T) or False
(F)
FALSE
TRUE
1. Dolphins live in the pond.
2. Dolphins lay eggs.
3. They have long noses
4. Dolphins can make 30 different sounds
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While ReadingActivity A

• Students sit in groups of 3s or 4s.
• They are instructed to observe the picture
• shown and discuss about the pollution and what
  will happen to the sea creatures in the near
  future.
• After the discussion a member of the group reads
  out their answers loudly in class.

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While Reading Activity B (3.9.1)Based on the
picture, the sea is polluted discuss what will
happened to the animals now.

• The sea creatures will disappear.
• 2.The animals will lose their
• home/habitat.
• 3. Sea creatures will not be able to get oxygen
  to breathe.

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Post ReadingActivity B

• In groups of 3s teacher asks students to list the
  things one could do to help keep the ocean clean.
• The students are given a worksheet to write their
  ideas on.
• A student from the group is called to read out
  their points.

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Post Reading Activity A ( 3.8.1) List 3 things
you could do to keep the ocean clean
1. ______________________________________________
_________
2. ______________________________________________
___________
3._______________________________________________
__________
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Post ReadingActivity B

• Listen as teacher explains about scrape book
• Collect pictures of other sea creatures and paste
  them on A4 paper.
• Decorate creatively
• Show and talk about the animals.

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Post ReadingActivity B (3.11.1)Discuss in a
group and create a (10 page) scrape book on
animals found in the sea.

• SEA CREATURES SCRAPEBOOK

SEACREATURES
3 BAKAWALI

1. SQUID
2. TURTLE
3. STARFISH
4. STINGRAY
5. JELLYFISH

6. OCTOPUS 7. GUPPY 8. CRAB 9. PRAWN 10.WHALE
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Post ReadingActivity B (3.6.6)State the correct
collective noun

A shoal of tuna
A school of whale
a pod of dolphin
A cast of / A bushel of crab
Collective noun
animal
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THE END SEE YAH!!!