Material Development - Practice
Material Development - Practice
You will be designing materials for a lesson plan that is part of a unit on festivals for Grade 9
students in a public school in an urban area. Your materials should align with the following
objectives and activities. Below are the steps and guidelines to follow:
Lesson Context
● Grade Level: 9
● School Setting: Public school, urban area
● Unit Topic: Festivals
Learning Objectives
Reading Section
Warm-Up Activity (WARM-UP)
● Aims:
○ To create an active, engaging atmosphere in the classroom before the reading
activity.
○ To prepare students for the upcoming lesson by leading into the topic.
● Task: Design an interactive warm-up activity that gets students thinking about festivals
they have attended or heard about. This could involve a class discussion, a quick
matching activity with festival-related vocabulary, or a fun brainstorming session.
Activity 1: Pre-Reading
● Aim: To activate students' prior knowledge on the topic of the reading text.
● Task: Develop a short pre-reading task where students discuss or predict what the text
might be about, based on a picture, title, or keywords from the reading passage. You
could use visuals or a word cloud to prompt ideas.
● Aim: To help students practice scanning for specific information in the reading text.
● Task: Create comprehension questions that require students to find specific details in
the text about the festival. Make sure the questions encourage students to focus on
precise facts (e.g., names, dates, locations, activities related to the festival).
Writing Section
Writing Task:
● Aim: To help students brainstorm ideas and create an outline for their writing.
● Task: Develop a mind map template or guiding questions to help students organize their
thoughts about the festival they will write about (e.g., What is the festival called? When is
it celebrated? What activities are involved? Who participates?).