Lesson Plan · Spotlight 1

Spotlight 1, Unit 1 – Hello, nice to meet you!: “DEAR: The Raincoat” Lesson Plan

A complete 55-minute extensive reading (DEAR) lesson plan covering weather vocabulary, story sequence tracking, and pair roleplays for 7th-grade Moroccan classes.

Spotlight 1 Unit 1 Lesson 3 DEAR The Raincoat lesson plan cover TeachersMap

The DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) session in Spotlight 1 (Unit 1, Lesson 3) builds early reading confidence through the story of Sifaw and his raincoat. This complete lesson plan connects personal information warm-ups, weather prediction drills, finger-tracking read-alouds, and desk roleplays into an accessible 55-minute routine.

Tailored specifically for Moroccan 7th-year middle school classes (1ère ASC), every stage utilizes row-based drilling, visual vocabulary sketches, and low-prep pair interactions that maintain structure and focus across large classes.

Grade

7th Grade (1ère ASC)

Unit / Lesson

Unit 1, Lesson 3 (DEAR)

Skills

Reading, Listening, Speaking

Time

55 minutes

Lesson Objectives

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify basic weather vocabulary (sunny, cloudy, rainy, raincoat), follow chronological story events in “The Raincoat”, and act out a chosen scene with 80% accuracy.

What’s Inside the Lesson Plan

Personal Info & Number Warm-Up with rapid-fire row checks and board guessing games.

Weather Symbol Prediction Lead-in connecting sun, cloud, and rain visuals with story illustrations.

Finger-Tracking Read-Aloud & Pair Reading ensuring active listening followed by collaborative decoding.

Vocab Sketch & Micro-Roleplay where students sketch target terms and act out Sifaw’s dialogue with Mom.

The full plan includes stage-by-stage timing, teacher procedure notes, and interaction patterns formatted in TeachersMap’s standard layout — ready to print or follow straight from your screen.

Teaching Tips for This Lesson

💡 Enforce finger-tracking: During the teacher read-aloud stage, instruct all students to track the words with their index fingers without holding pens to maximize visual-auditory word matching.

💡 Rapid weather symbols: Draw simple weather icons (sun, clouds, rain droplets) directly on the board to avoid Arabic translation when introducing sunny, cloudy, and rainy.

💡 1-minute vocab sketches: Keep the sketch task strictly timed to 60 seconds so students quickly anchor the word visually without turning it into a drawing lesson.

💡 Seated scene performance: Have pairs perform their 2-line dialogue directly from their desks to keep classroom management seamless in large groups.