Lesson 3

Class Level: Primary

Time: 30 minutes
Genre: Short story : The Caring Tree
Literary Focus: Prose
Plot Characterization Setting
Point of View
Theme

Integrated Language Skills: Listening, speaking and reading

Higher Order Thinking Skills: Inferential Comprehension
Multiple Intelligences: Visual / Spatial
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
2.3 Give relevant information in response to enquiries made.
3.10 Read simple texts and make inferences and draw conclusions
Prior Knowledge: Pupils have been introduced with characters and characteristics.

Procedures:
Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Tasks Teaching Resources Rationale
Procedures
Preparatory Activities (05) Pupils respond 1. Do you stay alone To enable pupils
Teacher asks questions to pupils to teacher’s in your house? to relate the
about relationship. questions. 2. Who are those relationship
staying with you? between a man
3. Besides your family and a tree.
who else do you
have?
4. What are their
relationship to you?
5. Can plants be your
friends?
6. Do you like your
family ? In what
way?

Main Activities (15) 1. Where is the To enable the

boy? pupils to see the
Step 1 Pupils answer 2. Why is he there? relationship with
Teacher asks the pupils to refer to the questions 3. Is the tree happy an inanimate
page 2 of the story book . asked by the to see the boy? object.
teacher.
 4. Where is the
Teacher poses questions about the Pupils respond. boy?
picture. 5. Why is he there?
6. Is the tree happy
to see the boy?
Step 2 7. Is the boy happy
to see the tree.?
Teacher explains about the 8. Why are they
relationship with an inanimate object. happy to see
each other?
Teacher asks pupils what other 9. Can we be
objects that they can be friends with. Pupils draw in friends with a
groups. tree?
Teacher asks pupils to draw a picture
of their inanimate friend other than the
tree.

Closing Activities (10)

Teacher asks pupils to talk about the Pupils talk about Drawing paper.
drawings and display on the board. their drawings. Colour pencils.

Teacher goes around to guide.