Teaching Summary Writing Through Scaffolding

by Saima Sadiq |

This lesson plan has a special focus on the writing skills of ESL learners. Students will develop their summary writing skills through scaffolding.

Resource Type: Lesson Plan

Audience: Elementary, Secondary

Audience Language Proficiency: Intermediate

Duration: 60 minutes

Materials And Technology:

Quiz

Objective:

The lesson focuses on reinforcing students' verse comprehension skills through the activities offering practice in:

  • identifying diverse rhetorical strategies and poetic devices
  • understanding pertinent vocabulary and connotations
  • perceiving central themes and constructing overall meaning
  • summarizing a poem

Outcome:
Students will be able to: 
  • identify several rhetorical strategies as used in the poem
  • determine the meanings of the words in the text
  • identify and explain poetic devices as used in the poem
  • comprehend the connotative meaning of the poem
  • construct the meaning of the poem through understanding the key theme
  • summarize the poem

Language Skill: Writing
Content Area: English for academic purposes

Procedure: Detailed procedure is given in the file attached below

Assessment:
  • Performance-based Assessment
  • Peer Assessment
Differentiation: The lesson plan may be modified for teaching paraphrase writing. 

Supporting Files:
Teaching Summary Writing Through Scaffolding Lesson Plan.pdf
Teaching Summary Writing Through Scaffolding Quiz.pdf

TESOL Interest Section: English for Specific Purposes

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