Science in English - Procedural Ordering Part Two

As a part of our Language Across Curriculum program, students are learning science-related skills and strategies in English class. This is the first unit in the second LAC module, which covers procedural ordering. The LAC adviser from the Education Bureau, a former colleague and the creator of the science and English modules, is teaching my students, with the rest of the form one teachers eagerly observing her.

The students in groups first perform a series of increasingly complex tasks where they must logically arrange a scrambled set of instructions; the students review the results as a class on the blackboard.

Afterwards, students read to infer meaning; that is, students read a paragraph of instructional material and next need to number the instructions in the correct order; some of the instructions that need to be numbered are not explicitly stated in the paragraph; the students found this inferential thinking most difficult!

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