My subject area is FLS, and I have chosen a recipe as a mentor (model) text. The idea is that this lesson will piggyback on a lesson about the imperative tense, used to instruct or direct. Once students have studied the grammar conventions of the verb tense, we will look at a short authentic recipe that employs the imperative text (see below). This is a written alternative for using the imperative, which is most often conveyed orally when we give people street directions or orders.
This lesson could work well for younger students, since some recipes can be quite short (peanut butter sandwich). There are multiple possibilities for integrating this mentor text into a lesson plan. To begin, students can write their own short recipe, which is a classic L2 teaching strategy. If we look at the second mentor text (below), we could explore ideas of Healthy Living and then make a recipe for a healthy life (see BLM 4.8). Here, students use writing conventions to create a recipe but instead of describing how to make a specific food they are describing how to live a healthy life. The latter activity is cross-curricular as it touches on the FLS and Phys. Ed. curricula.
Here is an example of a non-narrative instructional text that could be used as a mentor text:
This list of substitutions can serve as an extension activity for a course such as Healthy Living (if being taught in the Immersion program).
Source: http://www.southernhealth.ca/data/newsletters/150/Alimentation%20-%20recettes%20et%20repas%20sant%C3%A9%20Avr12.pdf
This lesson could work well for younger students, since some recipes can be quite short (peanut butter sandwich). There are multiple possibilities for integrating this mentor text into a lesson plan. To begin, students can write their own short recipe, which is a classic L2 teaching strategy. If we look at the second mentor text (below), we could explore ideas of Healthy Living and then make a recipe for a healthy life (see BLM 4.8). Here, students use writing conventions to create a recipe but instead of describing how to make a specific food they are describing how to live a healthy life. The latter activity is cross-curricular as it touches on the FLS and Phys. Ed. curricula.
Here is an example of a non-narrative instructional text that could be used as a mentor text:
This list of substitutions can serve as an extension activity for a course such as Healthy Living (if being taught in the Immersion program).
Source: http://www.southernhealth.ca/data/newsletters/150/Alimentation%20-%20recettes%20et%20repas%20sant%C3%A9%20Avr12.pdf
Super idea!
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