Lesson Plan Three

Class Level: Level 2 - Primary 4 – mixed ability

Time: 60 minutes
Genre: Short stories – The Little Blue Boy
Literary Focus: Prose

Plot Characterization 
Setting Point of View

Theme Features

Integrated Language Skills: Reading & Writting

Thinking Skills: Literal – recognition of
Multiple Intelligences: Visual/Spatial , Bodily/Kinesthetic
Learning Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

– identify new characters

– predict outcomes

– inferring meanings from contextual clues

– ask and seek answer

Prior Knowledge: – Pupils have read story from pg 1-6.

– Pupils are familiar with the main characters.

Procedures:

Teacher’s Task/ Pupils’ Tasks Teaching Rationale

Resources
Procedures
Preparatory Activities ( 10m)

Teacher asks pupils Answer the Story book – The To elicit respond
questions questions Little Blue Boy. from pupils on
orally. friendship.
i. Do you have
many friends?
Scanned pictures
ii. How do you of pgs 8 & 9
describe your
friends?
 iii. Do you like your
friends?

iv. Why do you like

them?

Main Activities (0m)

1. Teacher shows some Pupils Scanned pictures To predict

scanned pictures to respond by outcomes.
Pg 7, 12 & 19
the class. predicting the
situation.
i. Teacher asks
pupils to predict each
situation according to
the picture.

ii. Teacher
draws pupils’
attention to the
different in colour of Pupils look at
their own palms. own palms To compare and
and compare Pupils own palms
contrast between
with friends. front and back of
2. Teacher reads story palm.
book with entry point
from pg 6. ‘Why was
he blue? ….’

3. after pg 7 teacher
asks questions.

i. How do you think

the blue boy felt
when he stepped Pupils refer to
out of the gate? their book and To elicit feelings.
listen to story
attentively.
Story book – The
4. Teacher continues
Little Blue Boy.
reading till pg 14 and
asks question. Pupils
i. How did the respond to
other children teacher’s
feel towards question.
him?
 5. Teacher continues
reading till pg 21.
Pg11 – albino
i. Pupils then make
Pg13 – shrugging
comparison of their own
palm and that of their ( flash pictures to
friends. show words )
ii. Teacher explains the
meanings of difficult
words and get pupils to To compare and
do the expressions. contrast.

To differentiate
6. Teacher gives out task races.
Pg15 – stared
sheet for pupils to do.
Pg15 – odd little
boy

Pg16 - sneering

( flash pictures to
show words )

Task Sheet
Closing Activities (10m)

Hot seat Pupils dip into Mask of blue boy To question

a bottle to get and Tchedjan.
i. Teacher divides class into
a question and
four groups.
proceed to ask
ii. In each group, teacher their friend in
chooses two pupils. One to their hot seat.
be the blue boy and the
other to be Tchedjan.
i. Why are you
iii. Rest of the pupils in the
always behind
group has to interview the
the fence?
two boys.

iv. Pupils record their result

in the task sheet provided. ii. How do you
feel meeting
us?

Task Sheet ( Mask)

 The Blue Boy

Questions Answers

1. How do you feel the first time you meet

the other children?

Tchedjan

Questions Answers

1. How do you feel the first time you meet

the little blue boy?

Task Sheet
1. Match pictures with suitable words.
( oddone sneer albino stare shrug )
2. Write out sentence from the story read having the word.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.
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