Focused skill : Reading Integrated skill : Speaking Language content : Vocabulary - Description about Indian festival.
Learning standards : 3.3 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to read and understand phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and whole texts. 3.3.3 Able to read and understand simple paragraph.
3.8 By the end of the 6 year primary schooling, pupils will be able to read and understand simple factual texts for main ideas, supporting details, sequence, and cause and effect. 3.8.2 Able to scan for specific information in texts. 3.8.4 Able to read and understand simple factual texts by answering comprehension questions in relation to - main ideas - details
Learning objectives : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to a) Read the passage with understanding. b) Extract the main point from the passage. c) Answer the comprehension question.
Educational emphases : CCTS - answering Wh-Questions Moral values - Respect for other cultures. Multiple intelligences - Interpersonal intelligence, linguistic intelligence
Language content : Vocabulary - Description about festival.
Teaching aids : Textbook, pictures, worksheets
Previous knowledge : 1. Pupils have learned about cultures. 2. Pupils can answer question in full sentence.
Steps/ Time Content Teaching and Learning Strategies Remarks Set induction (5 minutes)
Getting Feedback: What have we learned yesterday? Can you tell me the name of the dance?
1. Teacher asks pupils to recall what they have learned on previous class.
2. Pupils response to the teachers question.
Pre-reading (20 minutes)
Passage about Deepavali festival.
1. Teacher asks students to open page 108 of their textbook.
2. Teacher first asks the pupils to read the passage silently.
3. Teacher asks the pupils any word that they do not understand and then explain it.
4. Teacher asks pupils to read again the passage together to make sure they understand.
5. Teacher discusses about the festival that being celebrated in the passage.
6. Teacher asks students to fill in the blanks in the next paragraph.
Textbook page 108.
Pictures of angelfish and Red Crab (Appendix A) While reading (15 minutes)
True or false statement.
1. Teacher asks pupils to turn to page 109. 2. Teacher divides the pupils into groups. 3. Teacher asks each group to discuss the answers based on the question on the textbook. 4. Teacher guides the group. 5. Teacher asks some representatives from each group to come in front and show their group answer. 6. Teacher and pupils check the answer together.
Textbook page 109.
Production (15 minutes) Comprehension questions based on the passage given.
1. Teacher asks pupils to answer the entire comprehension question based on the passage they have read. 2. Pupils answer the comprehension questions.
Textbook page 109
Closure (5 minutes)
Conclusion
1. Pupils check their works. 2. Teacher summarises the key point of the lesson.