CImplement Dive Deep Intensive Reading

Dive Deep into the Text

Why The Ends Of Samoan Houses Are Round

I decided to do another intensive close reading activity using the same text type, Myth and Legend. I again used the dive-deep approach with similar outcomes. I thought it would be helpful for my learners to repeat what we just did on the same text type.

My Plan

Text Type: Why The Ends Of Samoan Houses Are Round

Outcomes To practice using strategies when reading for comprehension - Vocabulary Jumble; Vocab matching, Prediction, Prior Knowledge, KWL, REad, Aloud, Summarizing To learn new English words (12 new words) To develop critical thinking

Language Skills
Listening	Speaking	Reading	Writing
Listen when the teacher reads the text.	Discuss ideas when the teacher reads the text again	Dive deep into the text using the reading strategies	Write a cummary of the text

Pre-reading Activities

1. Jumble Words

Instruction: 

Put your pens down and your hands behind your backs. Look at these words on the screen, study them, listen to their pronunciations. The words will be off the screen and you write down as many words as you can. These will be repeated 3 times. 

Varied Certain Enthusiastic

Proficient Particular Dome

Impossible Desired Horizon

Services Manner Decreed

2. Vocabulary Matching

Match the words in column A with their correct definitions under column B. Write the number of the correct answer under the column between A & B.

Column A		Column B - Definitions
Varied		1. not able to occur, exist, or be done.
Proficient		2. the action of helping or doing work for someone.
Impossible	1	3. incorporating a number of different types or elements; showing variation or variety.
Services		4. detailed information about someone or something.
Certain		5. competent or skilled in doing or using something.
Particular		6. a way in which a thing is done or happens.
Desired		7. able to be firmly relied on to happen or be the case.
Manner		8. strongly wished for or intended.
Enthusiastic		9. the line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet.
Dome		10. order (something) by decree.
Horizon		11. having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
Decreed		12. a rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base.

3. Expand knowledge on vocabulary

Word	Part of speech	Other forms	Part of speech
Varied	adjective/verb	vary	very
		variety (varieties)	noun
Pro/fi/ci/ent	adjective	Proficiency (proficiencies)	noun
Impossible
Services
Certain
Particular
Desired
Manner
Enthusiastic
Dome
Horizon
Decreed

2. KWL

• Use this question to complete the table below - ‘Why do the ends of the Samoan houses are round? 

What I already know	What I want to know	What I have learned

Reading Activities

1. Read the text using the following Reading Strategies 

Why The Ends Of Samoan Houses Are Round.

During the time of Tagaloalagi the houses in Samoa varied in shape and this lead to many difficulties for those who wished to have a house built in a certain manner. Each carpenter was proficient in building a house of one particular shape only and it was sometimes impossible to obtain the services of the carpenter desired. 

A meeting of all the car/pen/ters in the country was held to try and decide on some uniform shape. The discussion waxed en/thu/si/as/tic and as there seemed no pro/spect of a decision being arrived at it was decided to call in the ser/vi//ces of Tagaloalagi. 

After con/si/de/ring the matter he pointed to the dome of Heaven and to the ho/ri/zon and he decreed that in future all houses built would be of that shape and this explains why all the ends of Samoan houses are as the shape of the heavens extending down to the horizon.

Prediction	When making predictions, students envision what will come next in the text, based on their prior knowledge. Predicting is an important reading strategy. It allows students to use information from the text, such as titles, headings, pictures and diagrams to anticipate what will happen in the story (Bailey, 2015).

 

Prior Knowledge

After Reading Activities

Summarize the main points in the legend. 

Draw a visual text of the legend.