LO: Introduce the topic and get familiar with each

other
1. Introduce the title and the topic of this lesson.
2. Have an open discussion about the given
question.

What can you do

with a key?

1:00 1/27
 LO: Get to know the learning goals of this lesson.

Learning Goals
Go through the learning goals with Ss. If time is
allowed, tell Ss that they’re going to learn an
important reading strategy in this lesson.

1. Identify the short vowel sounds for each of the

five vowel letters; decode the spoken single-
syllable words.
2. Practice the key words and phrases glow,
magic, pick up, slippers, get in, pin, and mouse,
and use them in sentences.
3. Learn about the reading skill and strategy:
Identify possible outcomes.
4. Talk about the story The Magic key and discuss
00:30
why most people love magical stories.
2/27
 Presentatio
LO: Present their homework.
1. Show the writing task from last lesson to Ss.

Presentation time. n
2. Ask Ss to present their own homework one at a

3. Give feedback.
Tips: If Ss don’t complete their homework, just skip
the slide, but remind Ss to do their homework next

Please Present Your time.

Writing

Writing Task:

A Lost Young Animal

Share what you’ve written with your

2:00
partner. 3/27
 LO: Identify and distinguish between long and short
TG
Phonics
vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
1. Click and show Ss the phonics words; ask Ss to
read the phonics words. If Ss cannot read the

Listen & Say

words accurately, correct them.
2. After presenting the phonics words, ask Ss to
Let’s read
identify the long and short vowel sounds in
single-syllable words that they heard in class.
mak these words
3. Click and show the answers and ask Ss to take
mat e mat
mug net
fox kite mug
and cast a huge
turns reading these words aloud.

spell.

bin bug net

long short
vowel vowel
sounds sounds
2:00
4/27
 LO: Accurately decode single-syllable words with long

Phonics
vowel sounds or short vowel sounds; read the text
fluently.
1. Read the chant to Ss with rhythm.

Read on Your Own

2. Guide Ss to read the chant aloud together.
3. Give Ss feedback.

There is a hat on the mat.

There is a hen on the net.
There is a pin in the bin.
There is a fox in the box.
There is a bug in the mug.

1:00 5/27
 LO: Identify the basic information about the book; TG
Lead-in
talk about what they can learn from the book cover;
motivate Ss’ interests in reading.

Book Cover Have Ss discuss the given questions.

Before
Reading
1. What is Biff holding?
What might the story
be about?
2. If you were Biff or

Written by Roderick Chip, how would you

Hunt feel when you saw
Illustrated by Alex
2:00 Brychta this? 6/27
 LO: Use details from the picture to make predictions.

Lead-in
1. Ask Ss to recall how to make predictions.
2. Have Ss to make predictions using the provided

Make Predictions questions.

Use details in the

picture.

1.Where are Biff and Chip? Why does

everything around them look so big?
2.What might happen to Biff and Chip?
2:00 7/27
 LO: Have Ss read and understand the text.

The Magic Key Reading

Ask Ss to take turns reading the text and to pay
attention to the underlined words.

Pages 1-2

The box was by Chip’s bed. Chip looked at the

Something was glowing inside box. “It’s magic,” he
2:00 it. said. 8/27
 LO: Understand the key words glow and magic;

The Magic Key Reading

utilize the reading skills and strategies to help with
story comprehension.
1. Click to show the key words glow and magic;
explain the key words.

magic
glow (n.)
(v.) 2. Have Ss talk about the comprehension questions;
encourage them to support their answers with
clues from the text.

Read Pages 1-2

Comprehensi
on
1. Why did Chip wake up?
Definition:
2. Why did Chip say, “It’s
the secret power that
Definition:
to produce
makes or reflect
impossible a
things magic”? What
soft light
happen happened?
Example:
Example:
The pink
She raisesball
theinbook
her into
hands is glowing.
the air with magic.
2:00 9/27
 LO: Utilize the reading skills and strategies to help

The Magic Key with story comprehension.

Reading
Ask Ss to go through the text quickly, and ask Ss to
talk about the comprehension questions.

Read Pages 3-5

Comprehension

1. Where did Chip go?

Biff and Chip looked at the 2. What might Biff and

box. Something was glowing Chip see after they

They
insideopened
it. the box. They opened the box?
looked inside.
“It’s magic,” they said.
2:00 10/27
 LO: Understand the phrase pick up; utilize the

The Magic Key pick up

reading skills and strategies to help with story
comprehension.
1. Prompt Ss to discuss the phrase pick up; click the
phrase in the text; explain it.
2. Have Ss talk about the comprehension questions;

Read Pages 6-7

encourage them to support their answers with
clues from the text.
3. Have Ss discuss the connections question;

Comprehension
encourage Ss to talk more about themselves.

1. What was in the box?

2. Past
How Tense:
did thepicked
magic up
begin?
A key was in the box. Definition:
Connections
The key was glowing. to lift something up
“It’s a magic key,” said What objects usually
Example:
Biff. She picked up the key He picked
have up power
magical a bottle
in
on the beach.
magical stories?
and the magic began.
2:00 11/27
 LO: Understand the key word slippers; utilize the reading

The Magic Key slippers (n.) Reading

skills and strategies to help with story comprehension.
1. Prompt Ss to discuss the word slippers; click the word
in the text; explain it.
2. Have Ss talk about the comprehension questions;
Read Pages 8-11
encourage them to support their answers with clues
from the text.

Comprehensio
n
1. What happened to Biff
and Chip after Biff
Definition:
a picked
type ofhe
upsoft
saythe and
that key?
Biff and Chip looked at the comfortable shoe that
2.you wear
What were at home
the things
room. Everything looked big.
Example:
like then?
“Look at my big slippers,” said You’d better wear
Biff. “Everything looks big.” slippers on the beach.

2:00 12/28
 LO: Understand the key word pin; utilize the reading

The Magic Key Reading

skills and strategies to help with story comprehension.
Prompt Ss to discuss the word pin; click the word in the
text; explain it.
pin (n.)
1. Have Ss talk about the comprehension questions;
encourage them to support their answers with clues

Read Pages 12-13

from the text.
2. Have Ss discuss the connections question;
encourage Ss to talk more about themselves.

Comprehension

Why did Biff and Chip pick

Definition:
up the pencil and the pin?
a short thin object with a
sharp point at one end
Chip picked up a pencil. Connections
and a round head at the
other
“Look at this big pencil,” he What would you do if you
Example:
Biff picked up a pin.
said. became
She usedvery
pinstiny?
to mark the
“Look at this pin,” she said. famous cities on the map.
2:00 13/27
 LO: Understand the phrase get in; understand the text;

The Magic Key Reading

utilize the reading skills and strategies to help with story
comprehension.

get in
1. Elicit the phrase get in from Ss; click the phrase in the
text; explain it.
2. Have Ss talk about the comprehension questions;

Read Pages 14-17

encourage them to support their answers with clues
from the text.

Comprehension

1. What happened to the

house? Why did Chip
think it was magic?
2. What did Biff do to get
Definition:
toin
come in or enter
the house?
Example:
3. Why
The do youperson
strange think Biff
is
Biff went to the door. She
and Chip
trying could
to get not get
in my
pushed and pushed, but she
in the house?
room.
couldn’t get in.
2:00 14/27
 LO: Understand the word mouse; understand the text;

The Magic Key Reading

utilize the reading skills and strategies to help with story
comprehension.
1. Read the text to Ss.

mouse (n.)
2. Elicit the word mouse from Ss; click the word in the
text; explain it.
3. Have Ss talk about the comprehension questions;
encourage them to support their answers with clues
from the text.
Read Pages 18-20

Comprehension

1. What was coming

Definition:
toward
a small Biff and
animal Chip?
that is
covered
2. Why didin Chip
fur and has
pick up
It was a little mouse. Biff and a long thin tail
the pin?
Chip looked at the mouse. The Example:
mouse ran away. The mouse is eating
nuts in the kitchen.
2:00 15/27
 LO: Utilize the reading skills and strategies to help

The Magic Key Reading

with story comprehension; make connections.
1. Ask Ss to go through the text quickly, and ask Ss
to talk about the comprehension questions.
2. Have Ss discuss the connections question;
encourage Ss to talk more about themselves.
Read Pages 21-23

Comprehension

1. What happened to Biff

and Chip when Biff

Biff and Chip got bigger and picked up the key?

bigger and bigger. 2. How did Biff and Chip

“Oh no!” said Biff. know that the magic
“Oh help!” said Chip. key was starting to
“It’s the magic,” they work?
2:00 said. 16/27
 LO: Understand the key words juggle and ring; understand

The Magic Key Reading

the text; recognize and understand the unfamiliar word
adventure in the text; read and understand the text; utilize
the reading skills and strategies to help with story
comprehension; make connections.
Read Page 24
1. Read the text to Ss.
2. Click to circle the unfamiliar word adventure in the text;
Comprehensio
explain it.
3. Have Ss talk about the comprehension questions;
n encourage them to support their answers with clues from
the text.
4. Have Ss discuss the connections question; encourage Ss
1. How did Biff and Chip feel
to talk more about themselves.

about this adventure?

2. Why do you think the book
is called The Magic Key?

The magic was over.

Connections
“What an adventure!” said
If you had a magic key, what
Biff and Chip. would you want to do with it?

2:00 17/27
 Reading
LO: Identify possible outcomes; build the basic concept of
the reading strategy.

Strategy
1. Explain the phrase possible outcomes and discuss. Ask

Identify Possible
Ss to look at the pictures and word clues to predict
what might happen next.
2. Demonstrate with one illustration and excerpt from the

Outcomes story to show Ss how to make predictions.

3. Show the possible outcomes and explain for Ss.

Possible outcomes mean what

might happen next.
Picture information:
A key was inWord clues:
the box.
The key was glowing.
glowing key The key was
When you “It’s a magic
read, key,”
look for said
glowing. clues to
“It’s up
Biff and Chip wereBiff. She picked a magic
the keykey,” said
shocked. help you figure out Biffwhat
. will
and the magic began.
happenPossible
next. You can look at the
outcome:
pictures
Biff and Chip would use and word clues
the key toChip
Biff and tell would have a
to lock the door and might
what happenmagic
go to sleep. next.adventure by using the
3:00 magic key. 18/27
 Reading
LO: Practice the following reading strategy:
predicting possible outcomes.

Strategy
1. Ask Ss to read the text, to look at the pictures,
and to find the word clues.

Identify Possible Outcomes

2. Have Ss try to figure out what will happen next.
3. Give feedback.

Something was coming. Chip

picked up the pin.
“Oh help!” he said.

Picture Word clues:

information:
TryBiffto
andpredict
Chip were possible
something outcomes.
frightened picked up the pin
a shadow of an animal oh help
3:00
Chip wanted to protect Biff
19/27
 LO: Check their understanding of the words and

Vocabulary
phrases learned in the lesson.
1. Ask Ss to work together to fill in the blanks with
the right words.

Read & Choose

2. Give feedback.
Notes ： If time is limited, just skip this slide.

1. Please put on your ________ before

slippers
entering the bedroom.
picked up
2. My aunt ____________ the trash on the
mouse
floor.
3. I found a big _______ in the kitchen.
mouse pick up slippers

1:30 20/27
 LO: Talk about what Biff and Chip saw when they
were tiny.

Listening &
1. Read the question to Ss and model how to answer
it.

Speaking
2. Encourage Ss to answer the question by using the
tips; assist Ss if necessary.

What did Let’s Talk

Biff and  slippers
Chip see
when they  big pencil
were tiny?
 big pin

 mouse

 house
2:00 21/27
 LO: Have Ss discuss what they would like to see if
Listening &
they were tiny.
Ask Ss to discuss what they would like to see if they

Speaking
were tiny, and have them explain their reasons.
Encourage Ss to talk more; assist Ss if necessary.

What would
you like to Let’s Talk
see if you  toy house
were tiny?
Why?  model car

 little insect

2:00 22/27
 LO: Talk about the values of the story: Why do most
people love magical stories?
Value
Read the question to Ss and model how to answer it.
Ask Ss to talk about the advantages of magical
stories.

Why do most people love magical

Encourage Ss to answer the question by using the
tips; assist Ss if necessary.

stories?

3:00 23/27
 LO: Describe what Biff and Chip did when the magic

Oral Writing
happened by using the given guide.
1. Guide Ss to read the compare and contrast

Get Ready to Present diagram and to describe what Biff and Chip did.
2. Have Ss work together to finish the task.

1. Describe what Biff and Chip did when the magic

happened by using the given guide.
2. Discuss the story with your partner.

Chip Biff
picked up a ran to picked up a
pencil the pin
pulled on the house pushed on the
met a
window mouse door

2:00 24/27
 LO: Understand what the writing task is; know that

Writing
they can complete the writing task with the help of
the post-class instructional video.

Homework 1. Introduce and explain the writing task to Ss.

2. Ask Ss to finish the task before the next class and
to be ready to present.
3. Remind Ss to watch the post-class video before
writing.

Task: A How-To Article

Write an instruction manual about how
to use a magic wand if you had one.
Step 1: Brainstorm Step 4:
Step 2: Prewrite Revise
Step 3: Draft Step 5: Edit
Step 6:
Tip: Don’t forget to watch the post-class video before
writing. Publish
1:00 25/27
 LO: Review what they learned in class.
1. Ask Ss to recall the meaning of the key words.
Review
2. Have Ss read the key sentences from the story.

Let’s Review

Vocabulary
glow, magic, pick up, slippers, get
in, pin, mouse

Sentence
 Something was glowing inside
it.
pack, laugh,
 Biff cottage,
picked up a pin.
torch, shadow, game station
1:00 26/27
 1. Briefly comment.
2. Say “goodbye” to each other.

1:00 27/27