Children’s Literature in the Primary School (CLiPS)

Unit Plan
Unit Overview
Unit Title
Everyone is Good at Something
Unit Summary
By the end of all the lessons pupils would be able identify the elements included in the story, describe
the characters and study character development in different points of view, plot development and
discussion on the theme, predict outcomes to encourage critical and creative thinking skills and
appreciate the values and abilities in a person, discover the hidden abilities and feeling proud of one’s
strengths, think creatively and imaginatively to produce an extension project to reflect personality
development in a project called “Hi Card”.

Subject Area
Art, Social study, Mathematics
Grade Level
Year 4
Approximate Time Needed
4 months
Unit Foundation
Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Syllabus Specifications:
1.7 Listen to and enjoy story and predict outcomes and draw conclusions
2.4 Tell story based on pictures and other stimuli
2.5 Talk about the people, places, and moral values of the story read in simple language.
3.4 Read aloud expressively and fluently pronouncing words correctly and observing
correct stress and intonation and sentence rhythm.
3.8 Read and understand simple factual texts for main ideas, supporting details, sequence,
and cause and effect relationships.
3.9 Read and enjoy simple story and respond to them by talking about the people and
relate it to one’s life.
4.5 Construct simple and compound sentences with guidance and independently.
5.6 Grammar : Adjectives

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Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• identify characters in all chapters

• describe the characters using appropriate adjectives
• describe and illustrate settings
• listen to stories read by model readers
• read the story to gather information and main ideas
• ask questions to gather information
• write words, phrases and sentences relevant to the task required
• develop creative ideas and imagine to generate ideas and interests
• reflect positively and discover talents, qualities and abilities for personality development
Curriculum-Framing Questions
Essential Do you think super heroes exist?
Question
How would Ben’s other schoolmates react to Ben’s actions and ability to save
Unit his friends?
Questions In which ways should Ben be rewarded?

Content Why did Ben want to be like Martin?

Questions
Student Assessment Plan
Assessment Summary
1. Illustration/ collage
2. Worksheets
3. Reflections
4. Portfolio

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Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins

Students work on projects
and complete tasks
After project work is
completed

•Questioning
•Self-reflection
•Worksheets
•Discussion
• Completing worksheets to
show understanding of
chapters or skills
• Peer comments and self
reflections
• Compile work into portfolio
• Display work

Unit Details
Prerequisite Skills
• Pupils can sequence
• Pupils can read to gather information
Instructional Procedures

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Prior to Instruction
Lesson One - based on character the main character
Lesson Two - based on the book
Month Three - based on setting and theme
Month Four - based on the theme
Optional Extension Activity

At Risk Student • Guided activities

EFL Student • Group and partially guided activities

Advanced Student • Independent work

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Materials and Resources Required For Unit

Technology – Hardware (Click boxes of all equipment needed)
Camera Laser Disk VCR
Computer(s) Printer Video Camera
Digital Camera Projection System Video Conferencing Equip.
DVD Player Scanner Other
Internet Connection Television
Technology – Software (Click boxes of all software needed.)
Database/Spreadsheet Image Processing Web Page Development
Desktop Publishing Internet Web Browser Word Processing
E-mail Software Multimedia Other
Encyclopedia on CD-ROM

Printed Materials • CCL Book – Everyone is Good at Something

Supplies •

Internet Resources

Other Resources

Unit Plan template adapted from the Intel Essentials v10 Programme
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