LESSON PLAN : 4

Class Level : Primary 5

Time : 60 minutes (double period)
Genre : Short Stories – Anansi and Turtle Share
Dinner
Literary : Prose
/ Plot / Characterization
/ Setting Point of View
/ Theme

Poetry
Tone / Mood
Rhyme
Rhythm
Persona
Figurative language – simile / metaphor /
Personification /
onomatopoeia

Integrated
: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
Language Skills
Higher Order : Literal Comprehension – Recognition of a sequence,
Thinking Skills Recall of sequence
Inferential Comprehension – Inferring main ideas,
Inferring sequence
Appreciation – Imagery, Emotional response to the
contents
Multiple
: Visual Spatial, Verbal Linguistic, Intrapersonal
Intelligence(s)
Learning : At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:
Objectives
• read the story from page 11 – 14 using different
voice modulation
• identify the plots and complete the plot grid
correctly
• fill the speech bubbles according to the plot in
the story.
• Read and act out the dialogues in the speech
bubbles.
• Create a menu on the food served by the turtle
and write their preferences in the menu.
Prior Knowledge : Pupils have seen and read comic strips and menus
before.
PROCEDURES :

Teacher’s Task / Teaching

Pupils’ Task Rationale
Procedures Resources

Preparatory
Activities
(10 minutes) To recall the
Pupils listen Picture cards reading from
Teacher gives attentively and do the previous
jumbled up pictures their task. lesson.
to each group and
instructs the pupils
to arrange them in
sequence based on
the plot of the story.

Main Activities
(40 minutes)

Activity 1
Teacher reads the Pupils listen CCL Book Providing
story from pages 11 attentively to the opportunity for
to 14 with correct teacher. the pupils to
stress, voice read stories
modulation and with correct
pronunciation. pronunciation,
intonation and
Teacher asks the The whole class stress.
whole class to read read the story from
after him/her. pages 11 to 14.

Teacher divides the Pupils in the three

class into three big big groups will take
groups. Each group turns reading the
is asked to take story as instructed
turns to read the by the teacher.
parts of the
narrator, Anansi and Worksheet 3
the Turtle.

Activity 2 Pupils look for clues To reinforce the

Teacher directs pertaining to the pupils’
questions on the questions posed by understanding
plot of the story the teacher. of the plot
read.
Pupils complete the
Teacher distributes Plot Grid in their
worksheet 3 (Plot respective groups.
Grid from pages 7
to 14) to each Notebook
group and instructs LCD Projector
them to complete LCD screen

Pupils pay attention To encourage

Activity 3 to the LCD screen. Worksheet 5 creative writing
Teacher displays an 8 sets of comic among the
example of a comic strips pupils.
strip on the LCD
screen. Pupils discuss in
their groups and
write creative
Teacher assigns dialogues in the
each group with speech bubbles.
different comic
strips and instructs Each group hands in
the pupils to fill in its comic strips.
the speech bubbles.

Teacher collects the Pupils volunteer to

comic strips and sequence the comic
exhibits randomly strips.
on the board.

Teacher asks a few

volunteers to come
to the front of the
class to rearrange
the comic strips in
sequence.

Closing Activities
(10 minutes)

Activity 1
Teacher instructs Pupils read and act Comic strips To instill
two members of out the comic strips confidence
each group to come two by two. among the
out to act the pupils through
dialogue from their a skit.
own comic strips.

Activity 2 Pupils listen Menu for the

Teacher asks the carefully produce Turtle To familiarize
pupils to create a their own menu and pupils with
menu and write response. different types
their response on it. of texts.

WORKSHEET 3 – LESSON 4
GROUP ___
THE PLOT GRID

The chart below shows how the story develops. Complete the chart by inserting
the correct events to match the stages from pages 7 to 14.

1 2 3

6 5 4
 7 8 9

WORKSHEET 5 – LESSON 4
GROUP ___
COMIC STRIP

Complete the comic strips below with your own creative dialoges.

1.

2.
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