PowerPoints+to+use+with+students

These PowerPoints are for classroom use. I read the stories aloud to students and ask them to 'follow with your eyes.' The PowerPoints can be used with lesson plans from the lesson plans page. It's easy to stop and ask students to predict, infer or make a question - it just depends what your focus is for that lesson.

=**PowerPoints:**=

Student with farming backgrounds enjoy this story very much. Especially if they are fond of cows. Other students enjoy it too.
 * Life Saving Cow**

This is not really King Lear! Just the banishing of Cordelia. It's very simple. I have used this with different levels and even with beginning or SL student if they have some oral skills. Students enjoy this story very much. I leave out the sorry fate Cordelia meets in the play. One student at the SL level predicted that the events here would lead to war, which is exactly right - but I leave the war out too.
 * King Lear**



This is a good story for practising predicting, summarising and for inferring (The students have to think about what really happened.)
 * Balloon Boy**



Many students feel that they their predictions should be correct. This is a good story for showing students that predictions are useful even when they are incorrect. We have to change our predictions according to evidence from the text. Modifying predictions as we go along is a skill that helps us read. Wrong predictions are good too! They serve the purpose of getting us thinking about the text
 * A Very Bad Mood**