📚 Explorers: Scan for Treasure
A fully interactive A2.2 Kids reading-strategy lesson that adds a second Reading Club power: scanning for treasure. Master explorers begin with four warm-up questions, then study a three-box reader toolkit: Scan for Treasure (the three-step move — know your target, move your eyes fast, stop at the fact — with a targets panel: names, numbers, dates, places, capital letters), Scan vs Read (a contrast set showing when to read every word and when to jump to one fact), and Fact Types (a table matching each treasure to its question: name→Who, number→How many/When, place→Where, date→Which year). Ten key words (scan, fact, find, information, name, number, place, date, search, quickly) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get review flashcards. The reading is a fact-rich Scan Text, 'The Mountain Fact File', about Team Compass climbing Mount Verde in Spain — full of names, numbers, places and a date to scan for — with past-tense storytelling and seven hover-tooltip words. Practice includes eight contextualised fill-in-the-blank questions (scan, fact, quickly, number, place, Spain, Verde, Carlos) that make students scan the text for facts, with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five fact-hunt prompts and a six-line model scanning dialogue between the four explorers; a guided 30–50 word writing task where students scan a real box or poster for a fact with a four-point checklist; and a full eight-question quiz mixing scanning strategy and two comprehension questions about the reading, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered feedback and localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- 4 questions about finding facts fast, phone numbers, fact types, and real-life scanning
- Silent thinking or pair-share format — no writing required
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Scanning strategy: hunt fast for one specific fact without reading every word
- Three-step scan: know your target → eyes move fast → stop at the fact
- Fact types: name→Who, number→How many/When, place→Where, date→Which year
- Scan vs read: choose scanning for one fact, reading for the whole text
- Scan targets: names, numbers, dates, places, capital letters
- Past tenses recycled in the practice fact file (was/were, past simple)
Prerequisites
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