ITALIAN LANGUAGE - Plan of junior secondary school

First class (age: 11-12)

Period

Contents

Activities

September-October

Tales and short stories

Narrative text

Descriptive text

Narrative text (analysis of the structure).

Division in sequences, synthesis start, comprehension of the text

Production: personal self telling, observation and description (objective and subjective).

Production: description of places and objects.

November

Fairy-tale, fable

 

 

Descriptive text

Analysis of the genre features and individuation of the principal functions.

Production: build a fable

The description: places and milieu.

December

Myths and legends

Characteristics of a genre

Production: description of peoples and animals.

January-February

Nursery-rhymes

Poetic text

Regulative text

The elements of a genre

Production: the composition of a poem, creation of a game, a recipe etc.

March-April

Epic poetry

 

The chronicle

The characteristics of the epic genre

The chronicle

Production: writing a typical school day, a fact.etc.

Whole year

Fiction (The Oz Wizard)

Reading Education: the class library for individual reading, "Giralibro"(book-turning) project continuity."

Class reading of a work and text analysis : narrative sequences, descriptive sequences, chief character and main characters, illustration of some chapters, form for a critical revision

Whole year

Grammar

Communication

Phonology

Morphology

Clause:elements.

Spelling revision (remedial and consolidation work)

Lexical increase

Practice.

 

 

 

Objectives

Pupil's …..

Teacher's ……

Comprehension of oral language

Understand a message as a whole

Select chief explicit information

Improve attention time.

Request explanations

Motivate subjects choices

Propose frequent readings

Be clear in demanding

Define listening times.

Arrange adequate testing

Suggest and guide discussions.

 

Comprehension of written language

Possess required competences for reading achieve an adequate expressiveness.

Perceive the meaning of words in context, getting used to dictionary practice.

Recognize the thematic nuclei and sequences.

Recognize different types of a text on the basis of functions.knowledge.

Start of acquisition for reading pleasure.

Propose target texts

Guide to recognize structures and a text structure

Supervise pupils in class practice and tools

Propose loud reading and audio patterns.

Suggest strategies to develop techniques and pleasant reading

Exploit class, school, municipal library.

Monitor free reading

Set up a library visit

Organize parallel classes meetings, discussions, round-tables about reading.

Production of oral language

Gradual overcoming of expression inhibition.

Intervene in a pertinent manner

Respect the class order for a functional interaction.

Relate the required contents.

Express simple personal reflections

Encourage calm climate and cooperation.

Define rules for a clear conversation.

Promote and guide conversations.

Train to lexical accuracy, sequence of ideas and pertinency of partecipation..

Start to acknowledg and use adequate  verbal register in the communicative situation

Production of written language

Use correctly morphological structures

Adequate various vocabulary.

Produce pertinent required texts

Produce logical and sequenced texts

Respect the type of text in its structure.

Produce well balanced texts

Explain grammatical rules and prepare adequate practice to  learning.

Supervise lexical enrichment.

Propose and analyse author text

Prepare themes for frequent practice.

Correct and train pupils to correct their works.

Organize remedial activities for pupils in difficulty.