Activity 1: New words

Target audience

  • Cycle 2

Duration

  • 60 minutes

Type of text

  • Story

Pedagogical objective

  • To place students in an unfamiliar context and promote comprehension of the story.

Specific objective based on Progression of learning

  • To identify new words in context and give them meaning by using several clues and sources of information.

Teaching avenues

  • Before reading, ask students about strategies to use when they come across words that are hard to understand.
  • While reading, bring out new words and try to understand them through the context.
  • After reading:
    • Group the new words together.
    • Do the activity.

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Activity 2: Aunt Maggie

Target audience

  • Cycle 2

Duration

  • 45 minutes

Type of text

  • Story

Pedagogical objective

  • To discover a colourful and endearing character.

Specific objective based on Progression of learning

  • To identify a central subject and its different aspects.

Teaching avenues

  • Before reading, ask the students what elements indicate that a character is out of the ordinary.
  • While reading, bring out passages that show that Aunt Maggie is an out-of-the-ordinary character.
  • After reading:
    • Ask students to mime characteristics of Aunt Maggie.
    • Do the activity.

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