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This lesson plan uses a story about a small monkey named Miko to develop reading skills in primary-aged young learners. The story is presented along with various worksheets that allow students to engage with and reinforce vocabulary from the narrative. These worksheets include a pre-reading quiz, exercises to label pictures from the story, comprehension questions, a text completion activity, and a vocabulary word search. The overall aims are to enhance reading abilities and practice using the present tense by exposing students to a longer sample text in an engaging way.

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Lesson Plan

This lesson plan uses a story about a small monkey named Miko to develop reading skills in primary-aged young learners. The story is presented along with various worksheets that allow students to engage with and reinforce vocabulary from the narrative. These worksheets include a pre-reading quiz, exercises to label pictures from the story, comprehension questions, a text completion activity, and a vocabulary word search. The overall aims are to enhance reading abilities and practice using the present tense by exposing students to a longer sample text in an engaging way.

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Using a story: Miko the Monkey

Worksheet A

The Monkey Quiz Find out how much you know about monkeys. Are these sentences true or false? 1. Monkeys are primates. T F 2. Monkeys are apes. T F 3. All monkeys have tails. T F 4. The Mandrill doesnt go into trees. T F 5. The smallest monkey is from South America. T F 6. The loudest animal on land is a monkey. T F 7. All monkeys live in tropical climates. T F
Worksheet B

1 M __ __ __ __ __ 3 N __ __ __ 5 S __ __ __ __
Worksheet C Are these statements true or false?

2 B __ __ __ __ __ 4 R __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 6 I __ __ __ __ __

1. 2. 3. 4.

Miko the monkey has a very big family. Miko laughs with his brothers and sisters. The monkeys steal fruit from the village. It rains for seven days. 5. Miko falls into the river. 6. Miko is a very brave monkey
Worksheet D

Complete the words from the story. Miko is a small monkey. He l _ _ _ _ in the forest with his brothers and s _ _ _ _ _ _ . They eat bananas, fruit and n _ _ _ . But Miko is very small. He eats n _ _ _ _ _ _ . One day it r _ _ _ _ and the river goes up. The monkeys have no f _ _ _. His brother Uko f _ _ _ _ into the river. Then Miko jumps a _ _ _ _ _ the river and gets bananas for his family. Uko comes back to the family. He says Miko is a very b_ _ _ _ monkey and Miko is very h _ _ _ _ .
Worksheet E Find the 12 words from the story.

B B V I L L A G E

J R L S R R U B C

N O C W I J N R F

H T L I V D C A O

U H I N E F L V R

N E M G R F E E E

G R B S T E A L S

R S I S T E R X T

Y N T F A U N T N

Using a story: Miko the monkey Submitted by TE Editor on 9 September, 2009 - 14:52 This lesson uses a story and quiz to develop the reading and vocabulary of primary age young learners. One of the main aims of using stories at this level is the general development of reading skills. Using longer story texts develops a far wider range of skills than is usually included in texts in primary coursebooks. In this story lesson students are given the opportunity to hear and read an original narrative story and build their knowledge of how a story develops. Topic: Animals (monkeys) Age: Primary Level: Primary/Low Intermediate Timing: 60-90 mins Aims: To develop reading skills in younger learners by using a short, narrative story To reinforce forms of the present tense, particularly third person The lesson can be done in class using the paper-based materials or, to add an extra level of engagement, it can be done using the interactive materials on British Council's LearnEnglish Kids site. Note this is an old plan, so the webpage it links to is no longer available. You can print out the texts from the lesson plan below though. Plan components Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure including story text and answers to tasks. Download lesson plan 109k pdf Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains: Pre-reading quiz Picture labelling exercise Comprehension check questions Text completion exercise Vocabulary word search

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