Using your curriculum, standards and your coursebook, pick a skill you wish to reinforce or teach for the first time. Examples of such skills include understanding information effectively and skimming and scanning.
Using a subject from your text, create an interesting lead-in for your lesson. This should take no more than 10 minutes. For example, if your students are required to read a text on the functions of salt, why not ask them to make bath salts? So you could start your lesson with the following questions:
What does one put in a bath to make it smell nice?
Why do people use salt?
Have you ever taken a bath with salt? What does this do?
Teachers can then give students a page of instructions on how to make bath salts. This can be done in a variety of media formats. Students need to use the skills of skimming and scanning so they can understand how to make the bath salts (for example).
Students complete the authentic learning project or game in groups or in pairs. This makes the learning part of authentic instruction fun.
Students then hand in their work for a grade. Criteria varies depending on the assignment and the skills students needed to use while completing the assignment. Criteria may also vary by teacher, and how they choose to assess individual students' work.