Rain school
Step 1：Lead in
T shows a picture.
T:What is our school like? What do you often do at school?
Then T leads to another school板书---Rain school.
Step2：Pre-reading
Q:What can you see on the cover?
T: When we read a story, we can get some important information from the cover.
Q:What would you like/do you want to know about the story?
T: When,where, who, what, how and why. When we read a story, we need to ask all of these questions. So why not read the story together and find out the answers?
Step3：While-reading
On the way to school(P328-331)
when where who
Where are they going? School.
Your questions Thomas’s questions
Read the sentences.
Now why not read Thomas’s words together? Let’s read with our emotions/emotionaly. Follow me.
How does Thomas feel?
S:Curious /happy/hopeful/excited板书
Thomas may feel excited on his way to school .
When arriving at school(P332-333)
Q: So what is Thomas’s school like? When arriving at school, what does Thomas see?
Q：If you were Thomas, how would you feel when you see that?
S:Sad/Hopeless/unhappy/disappointed.
Q:But does he give up? Is this the ending? No. Because there is a teacher. So what does the teacher say?
T: Yes. The teacher tells them to build the school in the first lesson. That is why it doesn’t matter! It doesn’t matter! Because where there is a teacher, there is hope.
Build the school(P334-340)
Well, so how do Thomas and his classmates build their school?
T:Now they succeed/finish building the school. What do the students learn from building the school?
Skills: Do you think they can do more things (including all of these)and do things better? They can learn many skills 板书just like labour skills and communication skills. Skills are important. In our lives, we need to learn different kinds of skills.
Team work: Can Thomas finish building the school by himself?
It’s too difficult. So Thomas should work with their classmates. So what can they learn? To work with others/team members. Team work is also important. More people, more power.
These are what they learn in the first lesson.
Learn knowledge (P342-349)
Q：Now the students have their own school. Do they work hard? Can you read Part II and find any details to describe the students’ hard work? On which page?
S:P343(Para.2)over and over. Keep practising writing the letters. Practice makes perfect.
P345(Para.1)ready and waiting. Students really want to learn knowledge. He is waiting for knowlegde. They are hungry for knowledge.
P346(Para.1)Every day Thomas learns something new. They keep learning new knowledge every day.
P349(Para.2)Be fat with knowledge Their minds’ are fat with knowledge. Are their minds really fat? Their minds are full of knowledge. Their minds have rich knowledge.
P349(Para.5)Be rumpled from learning They often use the notebooks to learn knowledge. So the notebooks are untidy and not smooth.
T: From these details, we know they work so hard to learn knowledge（板书）. Knowledge is really important. Knowledge is power.
Q：But what does the teacher think of the students? Does the teacher also think they work hard?
T:We can see the teacher always praises and encourages the students. /These are the encouragements 板书from the teacher. Actually, besides our own hard work/when we grow up, others’ encouragement is also important for us. Do you agree with me?
After going back home(P350-352)
We know the students learn so many things at school. How time flies! Nine months has passed by! The students go back home. So what happens after that?
Q: So What do the big rains take away?
Q: If you were Thomas, how will you feel when you see that?
Sad.unhappy 板书
Q: But is there nothing left? The school diasppears but something is left. What is that? What is left after the heavy rains?
T:Yes. Knowledge is left! Knowledge is still in their minds. That is why “it doesn’t matter”. They still have hope(板书爱心) in their heart.
When going back to school again(P353-355)
Well, the school almost disappears after the big rains. So when Thomas goes to school again/returns to school next year, what will Thomas do ?
If you were Thomas, what would you say to the young children on the way to school? Work in pairs and have a discussion./You can discuss with your partner.
T: Yeah. What Thomas say to the young children is the knowledge what Thomas learned last year/has learned before. That’s the ending of the story.
Step 4：Post-reading
Retelling:
Look at the pictures. You need to say something about what happens in each picture.
Group discussion：
Well, I believe you have known a lot about the special school---Rain school. So why it is called rain school? What does the “rain” mean? Please work in groups and have a discussion.
Sharing：
Is there “rain” in your life? What did you do to solve it? What can you learn from your experience? Please discuss your experience of solving “rains” with your group members. You can start.
That’s another way to grow up!
Step5：Summary
Thanks for your sharing. I really love your ideas./ I believe you do get a lot from the story.
Actually, in our lives, we may face many problems like the big rains. And we will have different feelings. But it doesn’t matter. Because no matter how big the rains are, we always have so many ways to grow up. Only if we work hard to learn knowledge and never lose our hope, can we grow up into a big tree. This is what Rain School wants to tell us.
Step6：Homework
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