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The so far untitled book

I leave it to you to name it after we read it

and talk about it

Gemma Vives 2023

Intensive English Course and CLIL for Teachers. Dublin 2022

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Activating prior knowledge, activating schema

What do you see? What do you notice about the picture? A word for that is…

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Activating prior knowledge, activating schema

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Activating prior knowledge, activating schema

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Activating prior knowledge, activating schema

people

A girl

A boy

A man

A family

A woman

A village

A fisherman

A baker

places

In a village

By the sea

At the bakery

In the beach

In a small town

At the sea front

time

In the past

Long time ago

At the begining of the century

Last century

A month ago

A few years ago

Yesterday

The day after

Later on the week

Verbs/actions

S/He grew up

S/He wanted to be a fisherman/ baker/shopassistant

S/He liked/loved/hated

S/He didn’t like

S/He went

S/he had

S/he hoped

S/he made

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Students make word clouds around the main idea

Scaffold word types

nouns

scaffolding language

Finding your job

In a sea front village half a century ago.

adverbs

adjectives

Linking words

Verbs

What is the book about?

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Make sentences and check they are correct

peer learning

always

She

eats

green

apples

You have 2 euros

Each piece (word) is 20 cts

Write as many sentences as they make sense

When you cannot use some words you can buy or sell words

Evaluate whether the sentences have meaning or not

Grup A reads a sentence and Grup B evaluates the sentence. If there are doubts, the teacher comes in.

How many correct sentences did you make? How much money were you left with?

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Can you suggest a title now? Have a guess!�

The title you suggest is…

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Before reading

Activate prior knowledge, schema
Provide a context, an idea (picture exercise)
Help to make predictions and connections with themselves
Elicit what they already know (vocabulary, language structures…)
Scaffold the language
Create from the top levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.

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The baker by the sea

Lets read the book!�

https://thegreatbritishbookworm.wordpress.com/2022/06/27/the-baker-by-the-sea-by-paula-white/

A lyrical, richly illustrated storybook about community and family - set against the backdrop of a seaside fishing village.

If you keep walking over the hills and across the fields, you will come to the edge, where the land meets the sea. And on this edge lies a village. This is my home.

A young boy watches the grown-ups in his village go about their work. Everyone is busy: the blacksmith, the boat-builder, the baker. But most important of all, he thinks, are the fishermen who bring in the catch.

The boy's father is a baker, but he wants to be a daring fishermen when he grows up, brave enough to sail through stormy seas. He asks his father, "Have you ever been to sea?"

An atmospheric look at a traditional way of life, and a timeless reminder that everyone is important, no matter how seemingly small their role.

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Making predictions�

Scene 1 The bakery:

Questions:

Where is it? What can you see?

Who works there? What does s/he make?

What is the story about? How do I know? What makes me think that?

Vocabulary:

Bread loafs, blueberry jam, icing sugar, flour, buns, scones wooden spoons, chocolat muffins, piping hot buns

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Visualizing

Scene 2 If you keep walking over the hills... And across the fields... You will come to the edge, ...where the land meets the sea.

Questions:

How did we get there?

What kind of place is it?

Does it remind you of any known place or I place you have visited?

How do you imagine the place? Is it big? A small town?

What does people do to make a living?

Who works there? What does s/he make?

What is the story about?

Vocabulary:

Hills, bushes, trees, Up and down, forest, pine tree, cedar tree, etc...

Blue sky, Huge, fluffy clouds, cloudy, foggy,

Front line, beach, changing rooms, sand, sandy beach, waves, ocean, sea, light house

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Lets read the book!�

Teacher read aloud...

Choral reading

https://ttsreader.com/

... Or find a reader

Practice with some words
Select a paragraph and practice
Raise students confidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdoMJlcR8TM&t=205s

Full text The Baker by the sea.

If you keep walking over the hills...

And across the fields...

...you will come to the edge, where the land meets the sea.

And on this edge, where the beach begins, lies a village.

This is my home.

Our home, ou beach village by the sea.

We have fish merchants,

And smokers that smoke the fish,

Blacksmiths and basketmakers,

Butchers and bakers.

There are cosy cafés and

Tiny chops that sell everything

You might need

Every one Works hard, by the sea.

The sail-makers make sails and the boatbuilders build

And mend the boats, so the fishermen can go to the sea.

Teh net-makers make nets and the rope-makers make rope,

So the fishermen can catch the fish.

The coopers make the barrels for pickling,

And the Scotch Fisher-girls prepare, pack and pickle the fish.

The sea is the beating heart of all we do.

As the sun sets slowly behind the cliff, the weary workers make their way home and teh village begins to rest.

And at night, while the fishermen are fishing, the village lies sleeping, gently soothed by the rhythm of the sea.

In the quiet, I think of the hard-working people, still outside in the cold and rain.

When I am older, I amg going to be a fisherman.

I will brave the waves and windy weather,

and catch the finest and freshest fish,

for the people of the village by the sea.

On the boat, we will work together, handling, hoisting and heaving the ropes,

Ready for our biggest catch.

When the wing begins to whistle, the sky turns inky blak and waves as tall as houses come crashin dowvn, we will know what to do, for we bold fishermen can battle any storm.

And when we head for home, as the sea starts to calm and a heavy blanket of fog rolls in, we will search for the bright, white light, high on the cliff, and listen for the bellow of the foghorn.

We will steer safely home, home to aour village, where the land meets the sea.

My father is not a fisherman.

He is the baker, and every day, before the sun rises,

And before the boats come in, he is safe and wrm inside,

Busily baking. And a comforting waft of fresh bread welcomes a new day.

He bakes bread,

Buns,

And biscuits.

He bakes baskets of bread for Babs’ Corner Café,

Where Babs makes the best bacon butties, teh boatbuilders’ favourite.

He delivers bags of piping hot buns for the tough Scotch Fisher-girls.

And he sells boxes of Biscuits

For the brave fishermen to take to sea.

Sometimes I help my father, and as the glow from teh over keeps us toasty and warm, I think of all the people, working outside in the wet and windy weather.

I wonder, if my father could make a barrel or build a big boat, why is he just a baker?

And I ask him, “Have you ever been to sea?”

“Yes,”he replies. “When I was a boy. I tried it once and even twice and I knew it wasen’t for me.”

He pats his apron, and a floury cloud fills the air. I see his pride shine through.

“ I became a baker, son, it’s what I wanted to do. “

Just imagein if there were no bread, buns and Biscuits?

If Babs at the Corner Café served breadless bacon butties, what would the boatbuilders do?

And if Scoth Fisher-girls, out in the open in the bitter cold, didn’t get their piping hot buns to warm ther nimble fingers... then how could they pack the fish?

The fish would pile up, with no room for more.”

And what would happen to the fishermen who finished until dawn, without their Biscuits dipped in hot broth and dunked in their tea?

They would be too cold and hungry to catch the fish, out in the dangerous sea.

But thanks to the baker, everyone has had their fill today, their bellies warm inside. And with the boats safely home, the harbour comes to life, busy and bustling and lugging, unloading the precious catch.

As the morning sun climbshigher in the sky, a tired fisherman stops by.

He looks to my father and they share weary smiles.

Then, without a word, he passes my father the finest and fattest fish, with a thankful glint in his eye.

I look at my father and feel proud.

For without the bread, buns and Biscuits, that he busily bakes before the sun rises, the people of the village could not go on as they go .

When I am older, I am going to be a baker, just like my father, in the village by the sea. For everyone Works hard here.

Everyone, including me

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Infer. Use context clues. Guess word meaning. Word study

Scene 3 And on this edge, where the beach begins, lies a village.

Questions:

What does people do to make a living?

Who works there? What does s/he make?

What is the story about?

When do you think this story takes place^? Why?

Look at the characters, their dressing, the streets, the buildings...

Find someone who is wearing a hat/ an apron/ riding a bike...

Vocabulary:

Smoke, chimneys, boat, fisher boats, Fisher mongers

Fish&chips

The village: Little alleys, narrow streets

Workers

A boy on his bike

Definition

Examples

Non examples

Facts

Picture it

word

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Fluency cards for individual and pair training

We get the sounds right

We gain confidence

We increase reading speed and reading comprehension

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During

The 9 reading strategies

Purpose

Fluency

Context

Background Knowledge

Questions

Monitoring

Connections

Inferring

Summarizing

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After reading�

Retelling the story
Making a book mark
Writing a comic
Informal talk. Tell me
Playing short dialogues
Reading circles
Pair discussion
Writing a letter
Filming a tutorial (recipe)

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From book images

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Retelling the story

a. How did the story begin?

b. Who was the story about?

c. What happened at the beginning?

d. When did the story happen?

e. Where did the story happen?

f. What happened next?

g. What did ___________ do next?

h. How did the story end?

http://applefortheteach.blogspot.com/2014/03/roll-and-retell-building-summarizing.html

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Retelling the story

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Retelling bookmarks

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Informal talk. Tell me.

Basic Questions

Was there anything you liked about this book?

Was there anything you disliked?

Was there anything that puzzled you?

Were there any patterns – any connections – that you noticed?

General Questions

Have you read any other books like this one?

Has anything that happened in this book ever happened to you?

Special Questions

How long did it take for the story to happen?

Who was telling – who was narrating – the story? Do we know?

How do we know?

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In order to help students to respond to the questions...

Responses to the questions need not be in sentences
Act as a model for the students by providing your own responses
Allow time for students to consider their responses
Build up the kind of language that will support the students to engage in the discussion.

Caracters, setting, plot, narrator
Structures such as:

I think
I was’nt sure why...
It made me think of...
I liked the way ...

Language to express possibility or certainty: perhaps, maybe, definitely,
Provide some reference lists o visuals to support discussion. For example: list of characters, vocabulary that describes the characters or setting, illustrations from the text.

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https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Response-Sentence-Starters-761421

Language support

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Vocabulary clouds

Sea side

village cottages clouds, blue sky fields beach sandy beach waves tree lines ocean sea front

On the right /left

On the right/left hand side

Far in the distance...

As we approach...

Along the beach...

On the street...

By the sea... On this edge...

Jobs

fish merchant baker butcher fish smoker

grocer cafe maker basket maker fish girl shopkeeper teacher

cafe owner blacksmith sail maker

Verbs: add

rub stir mix grease line place top sprinkle bake

Linking words

First, then, next, after that, in the end

In the beginning,.. in the middle… in the end

In this chapter, then

at the end of the book

After, afterwards

Boy girl woman man mother father

Bakery

Bread buns biscuits

Flour sugar icing sugar berries scones cap cakes

Apron hat wooden spoons baking sheets ,

Verbs: add

rub stir mix grease line place top sprinkle bake

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What are they talking about?

Imagine the dialogue that these characters are having in the picture

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reading circles

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Compare these two pictures:��

sunny.
bright.
unclouded.
sunshiny.
clear.
balmy.
fair.
temperate.

wind

thunder

storm

high waves

thunderstorm

heavy rain

cloudy

low temperature

dark

rough sea

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Read the section about the author that is included in the flap inside the back cover and at the bottom of the recipe.

Talk about why Paula’s grandad Percy might have felt guilty for not being a fisherman.

Identify the ways that the baker supports the community.

Write a blurb for the book…

Discuss and write a blurb for the book…

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model writting

Model writing the beginning of a blurb:

This is a tender story of a sea-side community where everyone plays their part in the fishing industry. A child observes the brave fishermen and dreams of joining them. But why is his father “just” a baker? Surely that’s not as important as being a fisherman?

The curious boy learns that a baker is so important because…

If there was no bread, then…

Adapted from A Writing Root for The Baker by the Sea by Paula White. Literacy Tree

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JOBS DISCUSSION

Student A’s QUESTIONS

(Do not show these to student B)

What kind of jobs do you like? For example?
Are there many good job vacancies for you in your country?
What is your dream job?
What jobs do you do at home?
Are there jobs that are only for women or only for men?
How many jobs do you think you’ll have in your life?
Are there any jobs you would refuse to do, regardless of the pay?
Is being a rock star or sports star a job?
What do you think the job of being a teacher is like?
Who has the best job in the world? Why do you think so?

Student B’s QUESTIONS

(Do not show these to student A)

Can you think of any jobs that you like best?
Do you often see jobs ads in newspapers or on the Internet?
What kinds of jobs interest you most and least?
Is the job market in your country growing?
What are the toughest jobs in the world?
Is being a housewife a job? Should women or men get paid for this?
Do you like job hunting applying for jobs?
What is the job description of your last job?
Does everyone have equal job opportunities in your country?
What’s the best way to pass job interviews?
What is the best way to quit a job?

TOPICS DISCUSSION STUDENT A- STUDENT B

https://esldiscussions.com/j/jobs.html

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https://thereadingroundup.com/book-talks-freebie/

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PARTICIPAR EN UN CONCURS DE POSTRES TRADICIONALS:

Film a video recipe

Hot Coconut Buns

JOB ADVERTISEMENT

Write a personal statement to apply for the role of

Assistant Baker

The Beach Village

After two WW and The Great Floods in 1953 many fishermen lost their boats and houses. It was the end of the village…

Debating chamber for the local council.

write and deliver a speech int role (jobs)

How can we help each other rebuild our village by the sea?

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The sea is the beating heart of all we do.

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