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English Grade 7 Lesson Plan 8

Locating and Interpreting Information in Expository Texts

Key Idea

Locating and Interpreting Information in Expository Texts

Most Essential Learning Competencies:

Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s purpose (e.g., scanning, skimming, close reading, etc.) (EN7RC-IV-b-10) Use appropriate reading strategies for various text types (EN7RC-IV-b-10)

Summarize key information from a text (EN6OL-IVj-3.6)

Cite evidence to support a general statement (EN7RC-IV-g- 10.4)

React to what is asserted or expressed in a text (EN7RC-IIIe-2.1.7)

Component 1: Short review

Time: 7 minutes

Teacher: So far, we’ve looked at one type of informational text. The biography we studied in the previous lesson is a factual recount – it retells factual events in chronological order. Over the next few lessons, we will explore other types of informational texts such as Expository and Explanation texts.

Teacher writes the following heading on the board.

Q1. Look at these headings taken from textbooks and decide whether they are Expository or Explanation text types – write your answers on the Worksheet:

1. How Does Rain Happen?

2. Tornadoes, Cyclones and Hurricanes

3. Japan

4. Why the Dinosaurs Became Extinct

Teacher asks students to volunteer answers and reasons and gives feedback.

Answers:

1 and 4 are Explanations – 2 and 3 are Expository (Information Reports).

Teacher asks students to volunteer answers and reasons and gives feedback.

Q2. With a partner, work out 3 types of information you would expect to find in a text called ‘Tornadoes, Cyclones and Hurricanes’ and write them on your worksheet.

Teacher asks for answers and writes them on board.

Possible answers:

1 Definitions of tornadoes, cyclones and hurricanes; 2 differences between them; how they formed; how they are named; features of tornadoes, cyclones and hurricanes; 3 big ones from the past; damage from cyclones, hurricanes etc.

Component 2: Purpose of the lesson

Time: 3 minutes

In this lesson, we look at a short Expository text and we are going to see how it works so that when you get a text to read that you have not seen before you know:

1. what the purpose of the text is

2. how it works – its parts or structure – how it starts and then how the rest of it is organized, and

3. where its most important information is located.

Expository texts that provide information about a topic usually have 2 major components:

1. A definition of the topic or thing, sometimes called a classification, and

2. Paragraphs describing each of the various aspects of the topic or thing.

Some expository texts may have a third feature – a conclusion, usually in the form of a general statement about the topic or thing. It’s not always there though because the main thing about these types of texts is to give you a lot of organized information on the topic but not always an opinion about it.

[Teacher Notes: Emphasize that the lesson will help the students know what to look out for or what are the important bits when they have to read expository or informational texts that they’ve never read before – such as in a test or examination.]

Component 3: Lesson Language Practice

Time: 5 minutes

This text is called Multimedia and it gives information about what multimedia is and the many different forms it takes.

Here are some key words from the text that you may not know or remember. Let us say each word together.

Vocabulary

multimedia – We will get the answer to this from the very first paragraph of the text, so look out for it when I read it aloud.

integrated – let us see if we can work out the meaning of this word from the words that are around it when I read the text aloud [A. a number of different things combined together in such a way that they form a whole]

animation (cartoons)

interactivity (“the ability of a computer, program or other content to respond to the actions of the person who is using it.”)

hypermedia – Again the meaning of this word will become clear when I read the text – look out for it. [A. another term for multimedia, usually involving links between sites and functions on the internet]

infographics (a visual rather than a verbal presentation of data or information)

webinar (an event on the internet where people can join in using their computer; web+inar = a seminar on the web).

Now let us go over what each word means.

Teacher writes each word on the board and asks the class to volunteer answers and writes each definition on the board. Students write each definition on their worksheets.

Component 4: Lesson Activity

Time: 25 minutes in total

Component 4A Reading the text [5 minutes]

Teacher reads the text, drawing attention to the words listed in Lesson Component 3, especially the meanings of ‘multimedia’ and ‘hypermedia.’

Teacher reads the sentence containing ‘multimedia’ and ‘integrated’ and does a Think Aloud to demonstrate how the meaning of the words can be worked out using context clues.

“Think-alouds are strategies that educators employ to help students monitor their thinking while reading. As a result, students improve their comprehension, confidence, and reading abilities.”

Multimedia

Multimedia is a form of communication that combines different content forms integrated together. Whenever text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity are combined, the result is multimedia. Other terms that are sometimes used for multimedia include hypermedia or rich media.

An example of multimedia is a web page with animation. Multimedia can be also an interactive media such as video games and CDROMS. Slides for example are considered to be multimedia as they combine text, images, sometimes video, and othesr types.

Below is a list of various multimedia formats used in education.

Text and Graphics – PowerPoint, diagrams, infographics, and slideshow presentation

Audio – Podcast

Video – screen capture, lecture capture, talking head, animation, and glass screen

Others – webinar and online meeting, blogs, and interactive content.

There are other multimedia formats used in business, entertainments, recreation, and the likes.

Multimedia plays an important role in our society. It enables us to keep up with the times.

[Philippines Department of Education (nd). Multimedia. English 7 Q3 Week 1 (p.3).]

Component 4B Questions [10 minutes]

Teacher displays questions.

Answer these questions on the worksheet, but let’s do the first one together – we have already talked about the answer to it.

Look at the opening paragraph or section of this text – what sort of information do we get here – what is a single word that describes this paragraph?

Questions:

Q1. What goes in the opening paragraph of an expository text?

Q2. Give a heading for each paragraph in the text to indicate what aspect of multimedia it is about. Match each heading to the components of the expository texts that we talked about at the start of the lesson.

Q3. How does the author show that multimedia ‘enables us to keep up with the times?’

Teacher directs students to answer Questions 2-5 on their Worksheets.

Teacher samples answers from students to each question.