The document describes a lesson plan for a 2nd year middle school reading comprehension task. Students will read a half-page text about a US president's speech and complete exercises to demonstrate comprehension, including skimming to identify the main point, scanning for details, matching facts to explanations, and summarizing the text in 4-5 sentences. Their work will be scored on accurately identifying key information and providing a concise summary.

1. Task name:
Comprehending a text
Lesson aim:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able demonstrate comprehension of a text by filling a
worksheet with different exercises.
Level:
2nd medio
Skill:
Reading
Task Description:
The students are given a half-one-page-size text about a US president’s public speech and
they have to complete a series of activities in order to demonstrate comprehension of the text.
They have to read the text twice using different reading strategies such as skimming and scanning.
Firstly, students have to skim through the text in order to get the main idea or aspect of
the text and answer to the question “What is the main point of the text?” in a worksheet provided.
Secondly, the students have to read the text again and scan through it in order to spot
important details and facts from the text. Students have to make a list of these details in the
worksheet.
After that, students are presented a third item, a matching exercise in which they have to
match facts from the text with different possible explanations.
Students are finally required to provide a 4-to-5-sentence summary of the text including all
the main aspects. They are not supposed to write more than the required number of sentences,
otherwise they are not being precise enough to demonstrate comprehension.

2. Student’s Name: ________________________________________ Date:__/__/__ Score:_____ Mark:______
CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Identifies Student identifies the The student The student identifies The student is
important main point of the identifies the main the main point, using unable to identify
article without having point, but uses the the article for important
information the article in front of article for reference. reference, but does information
him/her. not fully develop it. accurately.
Identifies details Student recalls Student recalls Student is able to Student cannot
several details from several details for locate most of the locate details with
the text without each main point, but details when looking accuracy even
referring directly to needs to refer to the at the article. looking at the
the article. article, occasionally. article.
Identifies facts Student accurately Student locates 4 Student accurately Student has
locates the 5 facts in facts in the article locates 3 or 2 facts in difficulty locating
the article match and matches them the article. facts in an article
them with their with their respective and provides only
respective explanation. one or none
explanation. matching.
Summarizing Student uses only 4- Student uses more Student summarizes Student has great
5 sentences to than 5 sentences to most of the article difficulty
describe clearly what accurately describe accurately, but has summarizing the
the article is about. what the article is some slight article.
about. misunderstanding.