Reading Lesson Plan: Understanding Paragraphs

READING LESSON PLAN · 90 minutes · ready to teach, with photocopiables

A ready-to-teach 90-minute lesson on how paragraphs work: the topic, the topic sentence, the controlling idea and linking words. It follows the free Start IELTS learner lesson Reading – Understanding Paragraphs, available at startielts.co.uk. It works in the classroom or online, and suits pre-intermediate classes and above, with extra material for stronger learners at every stage.

What’s in the lesson:

Mystery Topics: guess what each paragraph is about
Where Is the Writer Going? Signs for reason, result, addition, example and contrast
Three questions for every paragraph
Paragraph Jigsaw: rebuild three paragraphs and catch the intruders
Build a Paragraph: hide a secret intruder for another group to find
A timed IELTS-style passage

You get stage-by-stage notes with timings, online notes, a board plan, common mistakes, answers and three photocopiables.