Lesson Plan 1
Class Level: 2 Primary 4
Time: 30 minutes
Genre: Short Stories – Little Blue Boy
Literary Focus: Prose
¨Plot ¨Characterization ¨Setting
¨Point of View
¨Theme
¨Features
Integrated Language Skills: Reading, writing
Thinking Skills: Literal Comprehension – Recognition of details.
Multiple Intelligences: Visual / Spatial, Verbal/linguistic
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: Name the title, author, illustrator, the publisher
of the book, answer questions pertaining to the cover of the book in a map mark Africa and Malaysia
to gauge the distance and identify the complications from the synopsis.
Prior Knowledge: Pupils are familiar with the genre
Procedures:
Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Tasks Teaching Resources Rationale
Procedures
Preparatory Activities Pupils observe the The story book, To introduce the
(6 mins) front cover and “Little Blue Boy” country where the
answer the tr’s qtns. story is set.
Teacher asks the pupils Scanned pictures from
questions pertaining to the book showed on
location of Africa. screen.
i. Where do you
think the story is
set?
ii. Where can you
find this kind of
house?
iii. Can we locate the
country on the
map?
Main Activities Observe the cover -The story book, To initiate the pupils
(18 mins) page and answer the “Little Blue Boy” into the story and the
questions. setting.
Teacher asks questions
based on the information on
the cover of the book.
Teacher shows the
illustration on the cover of
the book and asks
questions: e.g.
i. What do you see
on the cover of the
book?
ii. Who do you think
the people are?
iii. Do you notice
anything different
about the boy?
iv. Do the man and
the woman look
happy?
v. What are the
children in the
background
doing?
vi. Can you describe
the woman’s
attire?
vii. What do you think
is the title of the
book?
Teacher writes the responses
from the pupils on a Mahjong
paper.
Closing Activities (6 ) Students respond. The front cover of the Students should be
Teacher provides soft story book on a able to recall the
scaffolding to the pupils to screen information obtained
Teacher writes the
provide the entry point into from the question
responses from the
the story using the synopsis. answer session.
pupils on a Mahjong
Questions: paper and displays in
i. A little boy was the class.
Mahjong paper,
born in the heart marker pen.
of ______. Pupils write the
ii. He is a beautiful, responses to the oral
healthy boy but he questions in the form
of a mind map in the Eg of a task sheet.
was ______.
task sheet.
iii. The other children
in the village
_______ at him.
iv. What important
lesson will the
children learn from
the Little Blue
Boy?