A narrative text

Stages/

Time

Teachers actions

Students actions

Assessment

Resources

Beginning

5 min

Greeting

Warm-up (5 minutes)

Method: Brainstorming, visual prompt

Shows a picture of a rescue (sea rescue / dog rescue).

Asks guiding questions:
“What is happening?”
“Is it dangerous?”
“Have you read stories like this before?”

Differentiation:

Support: Sentence starters (I think…, I can see…)

Challenge: Ask stronger students to predict the ending of the story.

Look at the picture.

Share ideas orally using simple sentences.

Descriptor:

Students identify the situation and predict the topic of the text.

Picture

Middle

10 min

5 min

10 min

10 min

Pre-reading (Vocabulary) (8 minutes)

Method: Guided discovery, reference skills

Introduces key words:

Rescue-құтақару

Wave-толқын

Surfer-зардап шегу

Windy-желді

Bravе-батыл

Encourages students to use dictionaries (paper or digital).

Differentiation:

Support: Provide word meanings with pictures.

Challenge: Ask students to make their own example sentences.

While-reading (10 minutes)

Method: Reading for gist and detail

Provides students with the narrative text “A Brave Rescue”.

Explains the task and gives clear instructions.

Asks students to read the text first for general understanding (gist).

Then asks students to read again for specific details.

Differentiation:

Support: Provide true/false questions.

Challenge: Ask students to explain why the rescue was dangerous.

Language Focus: Quantifiers (7 minutes)

Method: Explicit instruction + practice

Revises quantifiers: too much, too many, enough, none, any.

Gives examples from the text (e.g. too many waves).

Differentiation:

Support: Multiple-choice exercises.

Challenge: Write 2 original sentences using different quantifiers.

Writing Task (10 minutes)

Method: Guided writing

Explains the writing task and shares the success criteria. Provides a clear writing plan:

Paragraph 1: Introduction – when and where the event happened

Paragraph 2: Description of the rescue – what happened and who helped

Paragraph 3: Ending – how the rescue ended and personal opinion

Reminds students to use linking words (when, while, suddenly, as soon as) and quantifiers (too much, too many, enough, any, none).

Differentiation:

Support: Writing frame with sentence starters.

Challenge: Add feelings and descriptive adjectives.

Find meanings using dictionaries.

Write short definitions or translations.

Read individually.

Identify when the event happened, where it took place, and who was involved.

Find and underline the linking words used in the text (when, while, suddenly, as soon as).

Complete gap-fill sentences.

Choose correct quantifiers.

Write a short narrative text of 50-60 words following the given plan.

Use at least two linking words to connect events.

Use at least two quantifiers correctly in sentences.

Descriptor:

Uses reference resources with little support to understand unfamiliar words.

Descriptor:

Identifies the main idea of the text and locate specific information 2p.

recognize and identify linking words used to show sequence of events 2p./4p.

Descriptor:

Correctly uses quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns. 2p.

Descriptor:

Writes a well-organized narrative text.

Uses linking words and quantifiers appropriately.

Demonstrates moderate grammatical accuracy.

4p.

End

5 min

Reflection & Feedback

Method: Self-assessment

• Ask students to complete:

  • Today I learned…

  • I can describe my weekend using adjectives.

Share one sentence orally