Activity of Reading

The Reading Zoo

Theme                       :           The World of Knowledge

Topic                          :           Animals                                                              

Level                          :           Primary

Skills                          :           Reading

                                              Listening

Learning Outcome      :          Read aloud words in lists and pictures

                                               Match phrases to pictures

Resources                 :           Cut-up picture cards

                                               Instructions cards

                                               Manila cards and envelopes

                                               Marker pens

                                               Worksheets

Warm up                    :

For about three minutes, the students have to guess the sound of animals made by the teacher and name them in English.

Steps                          :

1. The teacher introduces some new words, for example, ‘fins’, ‘crawls’, ‘glides’, ‘beak’,

    ‘swims’, ‘flies’, ‘wings’, ‘legs’, ‘jumps’, ‘frog’ by writing them on the board. Teacher 

     asks the students to read them aloud. This should take about five minutes.

2. The teacher gives out the letter cards, for example, ‘E’ for elephant, ‘C’ for crocodile,

   ‘B’ for bird, ‘F’ for fish, ‘S’ for snake and ‘M’ for monkey. One for each student and then 

   divides the class into six groups of six students, according to the letter cards they each 

    have. The student and the teacher rearrange the desks, if necessary, for group activities. 

    This should take about five minutes.

3. For about 30 minutes the students complete Group Tasks. Each group is given 

   a large envelope that contains a cut-up picture of an animal, glue, and a manila card. 

   They also receive a task card of instructions. The students read the instructions to 

    rearrange the cards, paste them on the manila card and find out what animal is in the 

    picture. From the reassembled picture, they have to answer the given question,

   For example, ‘A __________ lives in the pond. It has __________.

                           It cans __________. It eats __________.’

4. The next ten minutes are given to Group Presentations when the teacher asks each 

    group to show their work on the board. Two of the students from each group present 

    their work in front of the class. The teacher asks them to tell about other features

   of their animal.

5. To end the session and for about seven minutes or however much time is left, the 

     students are each given a worksheet. They are asked to do their own enrichment

     activities, on their own, while the teacher circulates and discusses the question with 

     each of the groups.

 

 Example of Worksheet for this topic:

 

swim	fly	worms	birds	fish
pond	leaves	rabbit	caterpillar	crawls

 

 

This is a __________. It lives in a __________.

It likes to eat __________. It can __________.              

 

This is a __________. It __________.

It likes to eat __________.

 

These are __________. They can __________.

They like to eat __________.