This one has to be the easiest lessons to plan for – along with listening. Reading, listening, speaking and writing fall in the category of Skills Lessons. Often, you will find students, especially adult learners, insist on learning skills rather than formal grammar. Of course, skills are the most important part of any language because they allow one to communicate with others. But ESL learners often do not realize that grammar and vocabulary (which are language items) are as intrinsic to learning a new language as the skills.
A Japanese ESL student who masters the American accent but forms her sentences using the Japanese form of S-O-V sentences (instead of the English S-V-O) is going to comprehensible, but only slightly. You get my point 
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Anyway, so this was a Reading lesson planned for the elementary level ESL students at St. Giles International in San Francisco. The lessons we taught our students were free since the teachers (we) were CELTA trainees.
Since the lessons were free, we had a fluctuating student population every afternoon. For the most part, this did not affect our lesson plans. For this particular Reading lesson however, I wanted to make sure the reading for interesting for all the students, whatever their age group. The reading section that I had been assigned from the Touchstone book was horribly slow. I was sure most of my students would be at sea with the level of vocabulary in it..
So I decided to write my own reading text and plan the gist and detailed tasks accordingly. Here’s the plan:
ESL Lesson Plan 5: Reading
Aids and Materials:
Self-created
Now, let’s see what really happened when Darin was six.
Tell them to answer the gist questions in pairs. Compare answers when done.
Hi
I cannot access your lesson plans and assignments in full. Could you please email them to me. I am doing CELTA in Australia, and your website is very useful. Thanks Emma