Reading for Life Lessons

Minnesota ABE Supplemental Services, Linda Strand, 2004-2005

and the Minnesota Literacy Council

Focus: Phone numbers (Reading for Life, volume 1, unit 4: Telephone)

Objectives: Learners will be able to recognize phone numbers and distinguish their format from that of other personal information

Key Vocabulary: telephone number, area code

Topics to Review: writing and saying numbers 1-10

Materials: phone book

Procedure:

Real-life application:

            T shows the phone book. T asks “What information can we find in the phone book?” Use student responses to assess knowledge.

T writes his/her phone number with area code on the board and writes above that “What’s your phone number?”.  Note: In the CASAS tests, phone numbers are written 1-333-345-2233. T asks the question and students repeat. T gives response, using own phone number. Students repeat until confident.

T asks: “What does the 1 mean? When do I need to dial 1? What are the next three numbers? What does area code mean? What is the area code where we live?”

Students practice asking for and writing down each others’ phone numbers.

Write different numbers on the board: phone numbers, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses. Have students identify which numbers are phone numbers.

Progress to Reading for Life, v.1 competency worksheets: Applicable worksheets: RFL v.1 page 59. Additional worksheets: Phone # Info Gap and Circle the Phone #.

Choose from worksheets listed according to your learners’ needs. Please see your copy of Reading for Life for additional worksheets and units.

Progress to multiple-choice format activities: A stand alone multiple-choice worksheet to complement Reading for Life v.1 unit 4 is attached as well as a bubble answer sheet.

Extensions:

See Daily Living Activities on page 57-58 of Reading for Life v. 1

as well as additional activities on pages 64-67 related to alphabetizing and using a phone book.

·        Reading phone numbers can be an excellent pronunciation activity.  Model the intonation used when giving a phone number, then provide students with a list of numbers to read to each other as a dictation.  Or, give each person a different phone number and ask them to read it while everyone else writes it down. 

·        With lower level students, do the Personal Information TPR activity in the Tutor Tip Archive on the MLC website http://www.themlc.org/Listening.html.

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