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Action Pack First Grade: Content Analysis

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Purpose of the content analysis
This paper aims at analyzing the content of the exercises in Action Pack First Grade to determine the extent to which they include these specific reading outcomes: reading English from left to right, showing understanding of learned simple words about names, objects, actions, and numbers when reading through different activities and recognizing the characters in the reading materials.
Questions of the content analysis
1.To what extent does Action Pack First Grade include exercises to enhance teaching reading from left to right?
2. To what extent does Action Pack First Grade include exercises to show understanding of simple words about names, objects, actions, and numbers when reading through different activities? …show more content…

There are many exercises including this category in Action Pack First Grade Activity book. For example, in exercise 5, page 41 in the Activity book, there are three pictures of different objects and under them, there are words with missing letters and pupils may show understanding of the objects by reading them first to help in completing the words with the missing letters. Another example can be seen in exercise 3, page 45 in the Activity book, in which pupils have a group of words in a blue box and four pictures, and each one needs a word from the box to describe it. Therefore, pupils will look first at the words, read them and complete using them in order to describe the pictures . In this exercise and others, the integration of the skills is found. It can be said that each exercise may include more than one specific outcome to be achieved. For example, exercise 1.Look and write, unit 16, page 52 asks pupils to look at the pictures and writ the verbs from the blue box, but they also need to identify the words first and read them before completing the simple sentences to describe what is happening in the pictures and by this, pupils' abilities will be improved in both reading and writing in the same …show more content…

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