LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 62
Read them and have the students explain/show you what the words mean. Do at least one
review activity. For ideas, go to page v, Teaching Vocabulary.
Teach the new vocabulary words from New Words (Dear …, drums, explain, kickball, letter).
Reinforce these new words via at least one or two activities.
For more ideas on how to work on vocabulary, go to page v, Teaching Vocabulary.
Pre-Reading
1. Let’s Talk!
HOTS: PREDICT
Read the message on the envelope. Ask the students to think what the secret might be.
Have them guess and write a few guesses on the board.
WKBK: Have them turn to workbook page 37 and read the poem in exercise 1 there.
While Reading
2. Let’s Read!
Have the students read the text and ask questions orally to
ensure comprehension of content and text type. For ideas on
how best to work with a long text, go to Let’s Read pages xii-xiii in
the teacher’s guide.
Go to www.eadventure.co.il/LFO to play this text.
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AI: Students understand
the general meaning,
main ideas and the
sequence of events in a
text, and use this
knowledge as needed.
Who is the letter to? (friends)
AI: Students identify
Who wrote the letter? (Albert)
different text types and use
What does Albert like? (secrets)
this knowledge as needed.
What does the letter have? (clues)
What does Albert like to make? (new things)
What are some of the things he made? (his clock, his computer, his robot arms)
What does he like? (music, reading, sports, secrets)
AI: Students identify facts,
What does he like to do? (play drums, read books, swim,
feelings and explicit
playing kickball)
opinions in a text.
Infer: What does Albert love? (try to elicit from students
that Albert loves sandwiches)
Note: Please do not reveal the answer if students do not know it. The answer will be
revealed in a Let’s Listen task on page 31.
Once you are certain all the students understand the text, read the whole passage aloud to
enable them to hear correct intonation and pronunciation.
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