Developer’s Name:

Dolana Mogadime, PhD., M.Ed., B.Ed., OCT

Audience:

Grade 1

Lesson Description:

Machoga, Letta . (n.d.) I like to read! Storybooks Canada Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License.

The children’s book “I like to read!” tells the story of a little boy who desperately wants to read to someone. He goes from one family member to another. Each seems too busy to listen to him. Finally, he sits down and discovers that he can read to himself. It’s a lovely story about the importance of finding joy in reading to yourself. Nelson Mandela valued reading to himself and kept a bookshelf on Robben Island. Children can appreciate literacy as a human right by learning that Mandela had to challenge the wardens on Robben Island before he was permitted to have his own books. Even then, he and his colleagues were only allowed one levelled shelf each for their bookshelf and these were made of cardboard and paper. In other words, the number of books was limited, and the shelving was made of poor quality.

“I Like to Read?” Is a book that can first be read out loud by the teacher. Who can then invite critical dialogue and questions among students. Critical dialogue serves as bridges to remembering Mandela’s fight for the right to read and education. Additionally, the book could easily become a text that children can read online on their own or read to their family member at home. As an extension to this lesson, children can be supported in developing their own children’s book about their reading adventures. They can become the characters in their own books seeking spaces to read with different people that they care about.

Lesson Objectives:

  • Appreciate the elements of a story during read out loud: setting, characters, problem events, and solution
  • Recognize their own ability and power to choose to become a problem solver by reading to themselves
  • Telling their own story of the love of reading for different audiences and different purposes

Relevant Ontario Curriculum:

Grade 1: Oral Communication

  1. listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes;
  2. use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;
  3. reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.

Grade 1: Reading

  1. read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
  2. recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
  3. use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
  4. reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.

Relevant Ontario Curriculum Documents

Human Rights Instruments:

The Convention on the Rights of the Child

  • Article 28 – You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.
  • Article 29 – Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.
  • Article 32 – You have the right to protection from work that harms you and is bad for your health and education. If you work, you have the right to be safe and paid fairly.

Resources:

Lesson Plan Details by Stages of African Epistemology:

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Reflect

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Reflect

Lesson Extension

Encouraging Family literary. Children can use their storyboard to create a comic version of their story. See: Pixton. Parents can be invited to the classroom. Students can read their stories to their parents and or in small groups.

Elements of a story Character – what is the name? Setting – Location in which the events took place Problem - What problem did the character have? Event Event Event How was the problem resolved?

After developing a storyboard, students can then use it to create their own children’s book with graphic images. See: Pixton.

Storyboard Character – what is the name? Setting – Location in which the events took place Problem - What problem did the character have? Event Event Event How was the problem resolved?

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Mandela Global Human Rights: Peace, Reconciliation and Responsibility Copyright © by Dolana Mogadime (Ed.) Project Lead is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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