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The Science of Reading highlights the importance of providing students
with opportunities to connect spoken language, vocabulary, decoding, fluency,
and comprehension.
This Going to Future Plans resource includes a one-page reading passage
designed especially for young English Language Learners. The reading provides
meaningful exposure to the target grammar and vocabulary while supporting
comprehension, sentence recognition, and fluency development.
Comic Strip Echo
Reading
Project and/or
hand out the printable comic-style reading passage and read the first speech
bubble or panel aloud. Students follow with their fingers and repeat the
sentence as a group, copying your expression and intonation.
Then, continue
one panel at a time. Stop after each panel and ask simple comprehension
questions.
Word Sort: Verbs,
Nouns, and Days of the Week
Students read the
words from the reading passage and sort them into three categories: verbs,
nouns, and days of the week. This activity helps students identify different
types of words. The teacher will collect the answers on the boards for self-
correction.
False Statements
Writing Activity
Students reread
the passage and write new sentences using the future with going to. They must
create false statements by changing details from the story, such as the noun,
place, day, food, activity, person, or time of the day. Since students can
choose different details to change, answers will vary, encouraging creativity.
Students transfer
reading to writing
The students rewrite the comic-style story in
the third person using he. As they read each sentence, they change phrases such
as I am going to into He is going to and rewrite the information
from Ben’s weekend plans. This activity helps students practice reading
comprehension, sentence structure, pronouns, and the future tense with going to
while making connections between reading and writing.
Students become
language detectives
They search for the repeated pattern I am
going to + verb throughout the reading passage. They circle the words going to and
underline the action verbs, such as play, eat, ride, visit, and read, helping
them recognize how the future tense with going to is formed. This simple
Science of Reading activity encourages students to notice language patterns.
Fluency Practice
Students read the
passage three times and draw a star after each reading to track their progress.
This simple Science of Reading activity encourages repeated exposure to
high-frequency language structures.
These printable activities make it easy to incorporate Science of
Reading principles into your ESL classroom while reinforcing the future tense.
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