This task was design to guide a reading class for kids at first grade.

1. LANGUAGE LEARNING
RESOURCES
PROFESSOR: EDGAR ALIRIO
INSUASTY
TASK DESIGN PROJECT
LUZ ADRIANA SOLANO B
2010

3. The Colombus American School is a bilingual private institution located
in Rivera. It has 367 students, from primary and secondary.
This task project was applied with
children from first grade.
Language level: false beginners
Skills: reading, speaking and writing
Hours: 4
Numer of students: 25

4. I work with students from first
grade. I am a home room
teacher in charge of 25
students.
My students range in ages
between 6 and 7 years old. They
belong to a high socio economical
status. Most of them have had
the opportunity to travel abroad
or take english courses after
school.

5. I have been teaching at this school for two years in first grade,
which has given me a lot experience to see the importance of
introducing children to literacy at an early age, so learners can
learn more about vocabulary, reinforce their reading
comprehension, get the identification of important events,
sequences and improve the other language skills.
Based on my experience and knowing the english level of the
school I decided to guide this task to use content based reading
and applied word recognition exercises and reading aloud
strategies in order to improve the reading comprehesion of my
students.

6. • To improve the reading comprehension of
the students in first grade by using
content based reading
•To apply reading aloud strategies
and word recognition exercises to
promote the reading comprehension.

7. Where the frogs come from?
Pre- reading While reading
Post reading

8. Task 1: Pre- reading
•Bring to class slides of pictures of different kind of frogs in
Colombia.
•Ask students to describe them orally, using colors, size, parts
of the body. Here students can practice structures with verb to
be.
•Show learners a video of frogs to have fun and ask them to
identify events, feelings.
Video of Two frogs

9. Nymphargus
were
discovered in
the hills fo
Tacarcuna
Harlequin frog
of the Atelopus
Genus

10. Nymphargus Genus
discovered in the
Mountain of the Darien
in Colombia
Rain frog.
Pristimantis
Genus

11. Poison frog.
Salamander
Poison frog of
the
Dendrobatidae
family

12. Task 2
• Show flashcards to introduce new
vocabulary such as egg, tapole, pop out,
frog
• Ask students to repeat it.
• Stick on the board the flash cards and
ask students to point out them.

14. Task 3: While- reading
• Review vocabulary
• Distribute the books in pairs
• Read aloud the story slowly, students follow the text
• Stop. Make sure students understand the reading
• Ask some volunteers to read aloud part of the story

15. Task 4: Post- Reading
• Show students the frog life cycle and ask them to retell the story
based on that.
• Write next to each step a short sentence telling the changes of
the frog.
• Distribute a worksheet related to the story. Here students
identify main events, characters, setting, vocabulary.
• Distribute strips of construction paper and ask students to draw
the metamorphosis of the frog
• Then students will make a chain with the strips of construction
paper.
• Volunteers will describe the metamorphosis of the frogs.

16. Tadpoles have big
bodies and long
tails.
Frogs
come from
eggs.
Tadpoles grow back
legs
Tadpole become
in frogs
Tadpoles grow
front legs