Winola the witch reading text

Reading short texts

Level 3 (Early readers) Age 5-12

Reading short texts mini lessons for ESL kids teachers

ESL Reading Text 7: Winola the witch

Winola the witch

This mini lesson focuses on a short reading text about a witch’s recipe for making a flying potion. Students read and understand a simple text and then write a short text about another witch and her potion recipe.

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Notes:

Use this mini-lesson within your main lesson for reading and writing practice. You will need to download and print out the mini-reader textbook PDF file before the lesson. Alternatively, show the file on a PC screen.

Students should have completed the alphabet, letter clusters and early reading mini-lessons before starting these lessons.

We strongly advise NOT dedicating a full lesson to this reading mini-lesson – we suggest including a 10-15-minute section each lesson for doing a reading segment.

Mini-lesson procedure:

Pages 1-3 Read the text

Winola the witch mini-reading, Pages 1-3

Before class, download the “Winola the witch” mini-reader textbook – either print it out or show on a PC screen in class.

Read the text.

Show the first page and explain that everyone will read a fun story. Point at the picture and elicit what ingredients the witch is putting into the potion.

Get everyone to read out the sentences slowly together. Help with vowel sounds and clusters. Read and chorus each sentence 3x.

Repeat for the other pages of the story.

Ask follow up questions for each sentence (e.g. “Do you like to eat frog legs?”).

Page 4. Answer the questions about the story

Winola the witch mini-reading, Page 4
Elicit the answers from the class.

Hold up the question page and have individual students read each question. Then elicit the answers as a class.

Write the questions and answers on the board as students give the answers.

Page 5. Make a story (writing preparation)

Winola the witch mini-reading, Page 5

The questions on this page will help your students prepare for the writing activity on the last page.

Students ask each other the questions.

Hold up the questions page and have individual students read each question and its example answer.

Then have everyone draw a picture of a witch in their notebooks. Go around the class asking everyone to show their drawing and ask some questions from the page. Then have everyone write down the questions and their answers in their notebooks.

Finally, put students in pairs. Pairs take it in turns to ask each other the questions.

Page 6. Write a story

Winola the witch mini-reading, Page 6

Show the model text with the underlined words. Explain that everyone is going to write a story about their witch’s potion recipe. They can use their answers on page 5 to complete their texts.

Students read their texts to their group.

Give everyone a few minutes to write their texts. Circulate as they are doing so and help out with vocabulary and spelling.

Finally, put students into small groups of 3 or 4 and have them read their stories to their group.

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  4. Rob the robot
  5. My bedroom
  6. Ronaldo is great
  7. Winola the witch
  8. A super tall building

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