Reading books

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today's programme

- planning period three

- introduction reading a book

Planning period 3

12th April - 21st April	Work on LessonUp 'reading books' + choose a book! Hand in your title on 21st of April!
23rd April - 8th May	May Holiday
9th May - 30th May	Read book!! During class we'll work on your reading skills
2nd of June	Deadline for finishing your book!
2nd - 13th June	Work on book poster + study irregular verbs
16th June	Deadline for handing in your book poster!
17th June - 24th June	Testweek: reading test + irregular verbs

Reading a book

We are going to read a book for English.

Every title on the Book suggestions OB list or the Bookflix OB ATC  PowerPoint is fine. Both of these documents can be found in the "jaarbijlage" in Som.

If you would like to read something else, please ask me for permission first! Make sure to choose a book that fits your level of command in English! So not too difficult, but also not too easy.

Deadline for handing in your book title: Thursday the 21st of April.  

Knowledge organizer & poster

While reading your book, you will fill out a knowledge organizer to prepare for the poster you are going to make when you have finished reading the book.

Deadline for reading the book & filling out your knowledge organizer:

                                                        2nd of June!

In the week(s) of 2nd - 13th of June you will make a poster about your book at school!

What is your favorite book ever?

What are your favorite topics to read about?

Have you ever read an English book? If so, which one?

How are you feeling about having to read a book in English?

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What is a challenge for you when you have to read in English?

Books & writers

Read the list with book suggestions for year 1 and/or check the BookFlix.

You can find both documents in the "jaarbijlagen" in SomToday.

Can you find a book that you'd like to read?

Write down a couple of authors (writers) and/or titles that you think you will like.

Find information

Find information about (at least) one of the authors. On an English site, so your information should be in English!!! 

If you need help: use the name of the author and the term “children’s books” in Google (or see slides 18 & 19 for tips).

Write down at least 3 interesting facts about the writer.  For example: Where does he/she live, what did he/she study, what are his/her interests/hobbies, a list of the books he/she has written, or other funny facts. You can type your answers in the next slide.

Note down the 3 interesting facts about your writer here, please.

Now find information about (at least) one of this writer's books.

Write down 3 interesting facts about one of this writer’s books.

You can note down the information you found in the next slide, please.

Note down the 3 interesting facts about one of the books here, please.

Upload a picture of the writer and/or one of his/her books here, please.

Helpful tips for searching information

Does the writer have his/her own website? Start searching there. If not, you can often find information on the site of the publisher (uitgeverij) or the English Wikipedia site.

If you don’t know which writer to choose, choose one of the four links on the next slide.

Helpful tips

- Francesca Simon

- Roald Dahl

- David Walliams

- Peter Bunzl

Have you already found a book you'd like to read? Which one?

Homework Thursday the 21st of April

Finish this LessonUp lesson in which you find information about an author and a book of choice and note this information down on the slides. 

Deadline for handing in your book title:

Thursday 21st of April!