Lesson Plan

English Year 4
Reading

Day : Tuesday

Date : 7 March 2017

Class : Year 4

Time : 8.00 am 9.00 am

Number of pupils : 25

Proficiency level : Moderate

Theme : World of Self, Family and Friends

Topic : Unit 12: Good Values

Focused skill : Reading

Integrated skill : Writing

Content standard : 2.2 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to
demonstrate understanding of a variety of linear and non-linear texts in the
form of print and non-print materials using a range of strategies to
construct meaning.

Learning standard : 2.2.3 Able to read and demonstrate understanding of texts by:
a) sequencing
b) predicting with guidance

Learning objectives : By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:

a) sequence sentence strips according to the plot of the story.

b) predict the ending of the story.

Teaching aids : Big book, picture cards, sentence strips.

Educational emphases: Multiple intelligences, contextual learning.

Thinking skills : Application, analysis, evaluation and creation.

Moral values : Love reading and be hardworking.

Stage/Time Content Teaching/Learning Activities Remarks

Set induction Whole class activity 1. Teacher shows a few examples Rationale:
(5 minutes) 1. Showing realia of of books to the pupils. 1. To attract the
2. Teacher asks a few questions to
books pupils attention
Questions : the pupils about books.
and interest to the
1. Do you like to read 3. Pupils answer the questions.
lesson.
books?
2. What books do you 4. Teacher tells the pupils that they

like to read? are going to read a story about a Teaching aids:

boy who likes to read books. 1. Realia of books.
3. Why do you need to
read books?
Pre-reading Whole class activity 1. Teacher introduces the meaning Rationale:
(15 minutes) 1. Introduction of of difficult words that the pupils are 1. Teacher
vocabulary going to encounter in the reading introduces the
2. Pronunciation
text. vocabulary so
model 2. Teacher do pronunciation drill of
that the pupils
3. Reading modelled
difficult words.
will not feel
by teacher. 3. Teacher reads the text followed
intimidated by
by the pupils.
the text.
4. Teacher tells the summary of the 2. To ensure that
story. the pupils can read
the text with the
correct stress,
pronunciation and
rhythm.

Teaching aids:
1. Big book.
While-reading Group work activity 1. Pupils divide themselves into Rationale:
(15 minutes) 1. Round Robin five groups. 1. To test pupils
2. Teacher gives one page from
Reading comprehensio
2. Sequencing the big book to each group.
n by
3. Pupils read out the page that
sentence strips.
sequencing.
they got group by group
according to the sequence of
Teaching aids:
the story.
1. Sentence
4. Pupils exchange the page that
strips.
they got with the group next to
2. Picture cards
 them and read them. This step
is repeated until each group
have read all the pages.
5. Once the pupils have completed
their reading, teacher gives one
picture card containing the plot
of the story and inserts it into
the picture pocket of every
pages.
6. Teacher distributes an envelope
containing sentence strips to the
pupils.
7. Pupils sequence the sentence
strips according to the plot of
the story and insert them into
the word pocket of their page.
8. Pupils present their sentences
to the class.
9. Teacher checks pupils answer.
Post-reading Group work activity 1. Teacher empties each groups Rationale:
(20 minutes) 1. Predicting the picture pocket and gives each 1. To enhance
ending of the story. group an A4 paper. pupils creative
2. Pupils predict and draw a
thinking.
picture for the ending of the 2. To make the
story onto the A4 paper. lesson fun and
3. Pupils insert their drawing into
enjoyable.
their picture pocket.
4. Pupils write down the ending of
Teaching aids:
the story onto the word pocket
1. Big book
by using whiteboard markers.
5. Pupils present their ending of
the story in front of the class.
Closure Whole class activity 1. Teacher recaps the lesson for Rationale:
1. Inculcation of moral the day by asking a few 1. To inculcate
values questions to the pupils. moral values.
2. Teacher inculcates moral values 2. To recap the
from the story of Kuang Heng lesson.
The Hardworking Boy.