Lesson 2

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: Literal Comprehension –
1.11 Recognition of details
1.21 Recall of details

Multiple Intelligences: Visual / Spatial

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1.5 Obtain information from texts listened to in relation to main ideas, specific details, sequence,
and cause effect relationships.
1.7.1 Listen to simple stories and recall the names of people or characters.

Prior Knowledge: The pupils have read the story in the previous lesson.

Procedures:
Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Tasks Teaching Rationale
Procedures Resources
Preparatory Activities (05) Pupils take turns to Story To enable
continue the story. pupils to
Step 1 recall what
Teacher recalls the story by giving Pupils listen to the teacher. they have
the introduction of the story orally. learnt in the
previous
Teacher asks pupils to take turns in lesson.
groups to continue the story.

Step 2
Teacher tells the whole story.
Main Activities (15) Pupils list down the Mind map To identify
Step 1 characters in a mind map. (Worksheet 2) the
Teacher asks pupils to list down all characters in
the characters found in the story. Pupils talk about the the story.
characters by answering to
Teacher then asks pupils to talk the questions posted by
about the characters. the teacher.

e.g. After reading the story what do Pupils respond.

you think about the man?
Is he good or bad?

Step 2 The
Teacher asks the pupils to talk about Characteristics:
the characteristics of the man and Man – ungrateful,
the tree. selfish, demanding,
inconsiderate,
dependable,
thoughtless

Tree – caring,
supportive, loving,
loyal
Closing Activities (10 mins) Pupils make comparison of To enable
Teacher asks the pupils to put up their findings. pupils to
their work on the board and the know about
pupils compare their findings. the
characteristic
Teacher distributes the worksheet to Pupils complete the mind of the
be completed. map. characters.

Teacher goes around to check and

help pupils who need help.
MIND MAP

WORKSHEET 2

CHARACTERISTICS

THE TREE

THE MAN

THE TREE