LESSON PLAN : 5

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, Recall of cause and effect
relationships
Inferential Comprehension – Inferring cause and
effect relationships, Predicting outcomes
Evaluation – Judgement of worth, desirability and
acceptability
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 15 – 16 using different
voice modulation
• identify the plots and complete the plot grid
correctly
• provide responses pertaining to table manners.

Prior Knowledge : Pupils are familiar with some common table

manners.
PROCEDURES :

Teacher’s Task / Teaching

Pupils’ Task Rationale
Procedures Resources

Preparatory
Activities
(10 minutes) To enhance
A stone pupils’
Teacher brings in a A plastic ball understanding
few things such as A plastic ruler on the principles
a stone, a plastic of sinking and
ball, a ruler and a floating that
basin of water. would enable
Pupils pay them to predict
Teacher then attention to the the ending of
demonstrates the demonstration and the story.
principles of identify the
sinking and objects that float
floating to the and sink.
pupils.
The representative
Teacher calls out a from each group
representative comes out and
from each group carry out the
to perform the experiment.
experiment with
an object of their
choice.

Main Activities
(40 minutes)

Activity 1
Teacher asks the Pupils listen CCL Book To encourage
pupils to predict attentively to the creative and
the events that teacher respond. critical thinking
take place towards among pupils.
the end of the
story based on the
experiment done.
CCL Book
Activity 2 The whole class Providing
Teacher reads the read the story opportunity for
story from pages from pages 15 to the pupils to
15 to 16 with 16. read stories with
correct stress, correct
voice modulation pronunciation,
and pronunciation. intonation and
stress.
Teacher asks the Pupils in the three
whole class to big groups will
read after him/her. take turns reading
the story as
instructed by the
Teacher divides teacher.
the class into
three big groups. Pupils look for
Each group is clues pertaining to
asked to take the questions
turns to read the posed by the Worksheet 3
parts of the teacher.
narrator, Anansi
and the Turtle.
To reinforce the
Activity 3 pupils’
Teacher directs Pupils complete understanding
questions on the the Plot Grid in of the plot and
plot of the story their respective resolution.
read. groups.

Teacher distributes Pupils pay

worksheet 3 (Plot attention to the
Grid from pages teacher and
15 to 16) to each respond
group and accordingly.
instructs them to
complete it. To elicit phrases
pertaining to
Activity 4 table manners
Teacher does a Pupils work on the apart from the
brainstorming task assigned in ones found in
session on the their groups. the book.
values found
throughout the
story.
Each leader writes
Teacher asks each the responses on
group to come up the blackboard.
with two table
manners. Pupils write the
responses in their
Teacher instructs exercise books.
the leader of each
group to write the
responses on the
blackboard.

Teacher instructs
the pupils to write
all the responses
in their exercise
book.

Closing
Activities
(10 minutes)

Activity 1 Pupils watch the Notebook To instill the fun

Teacher plays the ‘Turtle Dance’ and LCD Projector element in the
‘Turtle Dance’ on dance together. PowerPoint learning process
the LCD projector Presentation of literature.
and ask the pupils
to follow the
dance. Pupils listen
carefully to the A song To instill the
Activity 2 teacher and sing musical element
Teacher introduces along with in the learning
a song to the him/her. process of
pupils and asks literature.
them to follow
him/her.

WORKSHEET 3 – LESSON 5
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 15 to 16

1 2 3
6 5 4

7 8 9