Home Plan - [GR1-L3-U1-LC1-6 Crazy Cakes]

The document provides a detailed guide on teaching vocabulary and reading comprehension skills to students using engaging activities like matching pictures to words and analyzing texts about artists creating cake art resembling various objects. It also focuses on reading strategies, author’s purpose, and visualization techniques to understand texts better. Students are encouraged to actively engage with the text, including instructions on identifying the author’s purpose and describing information from photographs, with additional activities suggested for further learning and early finishers.

Contents

• Pages 1—45: Vocabulary activities for students
• Pages 46—49: Text engagement tips

This section of the document provides tips and activities for teaching new words and concepts to students. It includes vocabulary words like “marble,” “rooster,” “peacock,” “unicorn,” and “treasure chest.” The activities involve looking at pictures, reading sample sentences, and answering questions to check understanding. Additionally, there are exercises where students match pictures to words, drag correct answers to fill blanks, and choose the right answer based on the text. The section also covers reading strategies, author’s purpose, and comprehension exercises related to the text about artists using cake and frosting to create art that looks like different objects such as a peacock, rooster, treasure chest, and unicorn. There are suggestions for free talk discussions and thinking about the purposes of writing.

This section of the document provides tips for students on how to engage with the text they are studying. It includes instructions on visualizing to understand the text, determining the author’s purpose, and describing information from photographs. There is a list of words to know, a focus question about crazy cakes, and an activity that involves reviewing the content of the lesson. Extension notes mention additional activities for early finishers.