English Grade 7 Lesson Plan 9
Locating and Interpreting Information in Graphs
Key Idea
Locating and Interpreting Information in Graphs
Most Essential Learning Competencies:
Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s purpose (EN7RC-IV-b-10)
Transcode information from linear to non-linear texts and vice-versa (EN8RC-IIe-11)
Summarize key information from a text (EN6OL-IVj-3.6)
Cite evidence to support a general statement (EN7RC-IV-g- 10.4)
Use phrases, clauses, and sentences appropriately and meaningfully (EN7G-II-a-1)
Component 1: Short review
Time: 7 minutes
Briefly review the features of informational texts encountered so far, using the questions as guides and inviting oral contributions from students.
This week we’ve been learning about different types of informational texts.
Questions:
Q1. What are some types of informational texts that you know?
Q2. What is the purpose of informational texts?
Q3. What are some features of informational texts?
Ask the students to write their answers on the Student Worksheet.
Suggested answers:
Q1. Recount, Expository, Procedural, Explanation
Q2. To provide information about things, processes or phenomena.
Q3. They are factual or non-fiction texts; they give us information or explain things.
Component 2: Purpose of the lesson
Time: 3 minutes
In this lesson, we are going to look at a different kind of informational text. We are going to focus on how information can be communicated visually. You are going to learn some strategies for making sense of information in a graph.
Graphs and charts organize information in different ways from written informational texts. That is why we call them non-linear texts. They have their own structures and special features for representing data and other kinds of information.
Component 3: Lesson Language Practice
Time: 5 minutes
Teacher introduces key words and symbols students need to know to read the graph. Here are some words and symbols you will need to know. ... Let us read them together.
non-linear text (material that uses visuals such as pictures, drawings or images to communicate information in a non-sequential way)
bar graph (a bar graph or chart displays information (data) by using rectangular bars of different heights.)
key (an explanatory list of symbols used in a map, graph or table)
axis (the line along the bottom or side of a graph that is used to measure data)
precipitation (rain, hail, sleet or snow that falls from clouds to the ground)
temperature (the degree of heat or cold of an object or an environment)
average (the result that you get when you add two or more numbers together and divide the total by the number of numbers you added together)
oC (degrees Celsius – abbreviation) mm (millimeters – abbreviation)
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 text [5 minutes]
Teacher explains how information is displayed in the bar graph below, drawing attention to the horizontal and vertical axes, and words and symbols listed in Component 3 and their location and/or function on the graph and key below.
e.g., The horizontal axis shows the months of the year. On the left, the vertical axis shows the temperature in degrees Celsius. On the right, the vertical axis shows the rainfall measured in millimeters. The key tells us that the bars on the graph means rainfall and the line with dots shows the temperature.
