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9.2.1 Reading for information

Indigenous Languages · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Personal vocabulary bank on patriotism, unity and roads
  • Inferring meaning, dictionary and thesaurus (synonyms and opposites)
  • Picking emerging issues from print or digital articles

What you will be able to do

  • create a personal collection of vocabulary related to the theme for information
  • pick out emerging issues related to the theme
  • acknowledge reading as a source of information

Key questions

“How can we deduce the meaning of new words found in texts?”

“How are our indigenous communities similar to each other?”

Lessons

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  1. A patriotism word bank
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Read a short text on country, unity or roads, infer new words, and store them in your indigenous language with a sentence.
  2. Emerging issues from texts
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Read a newspaper, magazine or printed page on the nation or roads, pick an emerging issue, and say how indigenous communities are similar.