What are the possibilities? The students will read to understand a text about baking a birthday cake and be able to write their own recipes.  The students will be able to read a text about baking a cake and find the main idea and supporting details. The students will be able to extract the sequence in a recipe about baking a chocolate cake for a birthday. The students will be able to unlock the structure of a recipe and read for specific information and sequence.

The students will read to understand a text about baking a birthday cake and be able to write their own recipes.  Whose birthday is coming up? What do you usually get? How many of you get a cake? What is it like? Who bakes it? How many of you have ever baked a birthday cake? What as that like? What did you do? (15 min) Hand out papers – read the recipe - what are we making? Read line by line while you ask questions about the text. (20 min) Now I am going to give you a worksheet. Please do it, (The worksheet has comprehension questions about the recipe for the birthday cake) (10 minutes) Now let’s see if you can write your own recipe. (ran out of time – ok – do it for homework!

Go over worksheet. (7 min) The students will be able to extract the sequence in a recipe about baking a chocolate cake for a birthday. Whose birthday is coming up? What do you usually get? How many of you get a cake? What is it like? Who bakes it? How many of you have ever baked a birthday cake? What as that like? What did you do? (15 min) Look at recipe – read it and fill in a chart (the chart has the ingredients and the steps to making the cake out of order and they have to put them in order. (15 min) Go over worksheet. (7 min) Now you are going to get another worksheet. Plan your own recipe for a friend’s party. (8 min). Finish at home.

Teacher goes over the worksheet. (10 min) The students will be able to extract the sequence in a recipe about baking a chocolate cake for a birthday. Whose birthday is coming up? What do you usually get? How many of you get a cake? What is it like? Who bakes it? How many of you have ever baked a birthday cake? What as that like? What did you do? (15 min) Let’s pretend that it is your friend’s birthday and we are going to bake him or her a cake. Look at the recipe I give you and tell me the steps you will have to take. Students read and fill out a worksheet with the steps – sort of a time line kind of a thing. (15 min) Teacher goes over the worksheet. (10 min) Great – now let’s plan a party for our friend. What else will we have other than the cake? (5 min) Do it at home.

The students will be able to unlock the structure of a recipe and read for specific information and sequence. Put recipe on board – without even reading it – what is it? Go over parts of recipe – the ingredients list – sometimes divided into wet and dry and sometimes simply alphabetical Directions – here things are numbered. Let’s pretend you have an allergy to eggs - where would you look in the recipe? Let’s pretend you only have a microwave oven – where would you look? If you were a diabetic – etc.. (10 min) Great! Today we are going to be looking at a recipe to make sure we understand the parts of it and some common terms and ideas that need to be in each one. Hand out different recipes: Oven temperature Serving size Etc etc. Students label the different parts – put the list of ingredients in an order they like and check out the sequence (10 min) OK. So let’s now pretend that we are making a cake for a friend. I am going to pass out a few different cake recipes – they are word for word in the way a friend might give you the recipe. Your job is to separate them out and put the directions in the order a recipe should be (this can be a listening as well) (20 min) Let’s summarize what we now know – go over parts and for homework, just bring in a recipe in Hebrew or English and we will work to make it easier for someone to use.