Class : 5 Budiman

Date : 22nd April 2014

Duration : 1 Hour (10.45 – 11.45 am)

Theme/ Context : World of Stories

Topic : The Ant and the Cricket

Focussed Skill : Reading

Integrated Skill : Speaking

Learning Outcomes : 3.3 Read and understand phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and whole texts.

3.8 Read and understand simple factual texts for main ideas, supporting details, sequence, and cause

and effect

Curriculum Specifications : 3.3.2 Read and understand simple and compound sentences.

3.8.2 Scan for specific information in texts

2.3.3 Talk about things heard, seen, read

2.6.2 State whether one likes or does not like the story heard, read or viewed

. Language Focus : Vocabulary

Behavioural Objectives : By the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

1. Answer at least 4 out of 5 comprehension questions by scanning information from the story.

2. Respond orally to the questions given based on the story read.

Previous Knowledge : Students already knows how to answer “Wh” questions.

Instructional Materials : Video, Presentation Slide, Story

Educational Emphasis : CCTS- Describing, Skimming and Scanning

Moral value: Diligence, Cooperation

Stage/Time Content Teaching/Learning Activity Rationale Remarks

Set

Induction

1. What is the video all about?

2. What can you see from the

video shown?

1. Teacher shows a video about “The Ant

and the Cricket”

2. Teacher questions the students about

the video..

3. Teacher tells the students they are

going to read a story entitled “The Ant and

The Cricket”.

- To stimulate

students’ interests

towards the

lesson

Video

Pre-

Reading

Vocabulary

1. Summer

2. Grains

3. Winter

4. Autumn

5. Shivering

6. Starving

1. Teacher reads the story first followed

by the students.

2. Teacher asks every student to read the

story.

3. During the reading, teacher ensure

students read with the correct intonation

and pronunciation.

3. Teacher then explains words from the

story.

- To make the

students read with

correct intonation

- To introduce

words related to

the story

Presentation

Slide

While-

Reading

Comprehension Question

1. Why did Ant work so hard?

2. Why Cricket did not store food at

all?

3. What happened to Cricket when

it started to snow?

4. Where did Cricket go in the

evening?

5. What thing Cricket asked from

Ant during winter time?

1. Teacher shows few questions to the

students.

2. Teacher asks the students to answer

the questions given.

3. Teacher calls few students to read up

their answer.

4. Teacher discuss the answers with the

class.

- To give practice

about scanning

information from

the text to answer

questions given.

Post-

Reading Discussion

1. Which character do you like in

the story? Why?

2. What will you do if you become

the Cricket?

3. Which words can be used to

describe Ant and Cricket?

1. Teacher divides the students into 6

groups.

2. Teacher shows few questions to the

students and asked them to discuss in

group.

3. Teacher asks the students to give their

answers orally.

4. For question 3, teacher will give a box

containing adjectives related to the story.

5. The students will be playing “Poison

Box” game.

6. Students who get the box have to draw

- Give opportunity

to the students to

give response on

the story read

- Moral

Value

Cooperation

a paper with adjective written on it and

discuss among their group whether it

describes Cricket or Ant.

Closure

1. Teacher asks the students what they

have learned on that day.

2. Teacher asks the students what moral

value they can learn from the story.

Moral

Value-

Diligence