READING YEAR 4

Date

: 16th February 2015

Subject

: English Language

Class

: 4 Zamrud

Day

: Monday

Time

: 9.15 9.45 am

Enrolment

: 28 pupils

Level of Proficiency

: Mix ability

Theme/Context

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Unit 3: Yesterday and Today

Focused Skill

: Reading

Integrated skill(s)

: Writing

Language Content

: Simple and Compound Sentences

Content Standard

: 2.2 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to demonstrate understanding a variety of
linear and non-linear texts in the form of print and non-print materials using a range of strategies to construct
meaning.

2.3 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to read independently for information and
enjoyment.
Learning Standard

: 2.2.2 Able to read and understand phrases and sentences from:

(a) linear texts
2.3.1 Able to read for information and enjoyment with guidance.

Objectives

: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:

a) Spell and give meaning for each word.
b) Read the text fluently.
c) Write the biography of the Wright brothers based on the text.

Moral Values

: Determination

Teaching Aids

: Paper plane, word cards, box, onion ball, text, worksheet 1

Teaching/Learning Strategy

Stage/Time

Content

Teaching/Learning activity

Rationale

Set induction

Whole class activity

Dialogue:
This is Captain Hani.

1. Teacher places a box pasted with

1. To arouse pupils

( 1 minute)

You have safely landed

at Senai Airport. Thank
you for choosing

Senai Airport card in front of the

class.
2. Teacher come in the class while

attention and prompt

them with the content
of the lesson.

Remarks
Element Across
Curriculum:
Multiple Intelligence
Technology

flying the plane and land it into the

Malaysia Airline.

box
3. Teacher pretends to talk with the

Questions:

crew of the plane.

4. Teacher asks questions to the

1. What do you think I

students about the action that she

ride just now?

2. What is this?
3. Who am i?
4. Why do we ride the

did.

Teaching Aids:
Paper plane
Box

aeroplane?
Presentation

Whole class activity

(10 minutes)

1. Teacher pastes word card on the

board to introduce difficult words in

Vocabulary:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Fame
Wing
Design
Flight
Inspiration

the text.
2. Teacher asks the pupils to spell the
vocabulary.
3. Teacher asks the pupils to find the
meaning using the dictionary.
4. Teacher asks the pupils to make a
plane using the paper.
5. Teacher asks the pupils to write the

1. To prepare pupils for

reading activity.
2. To build pupils
schemata before the
next stage.
3. To expose pupils to
new vocabulary and its
meanings.

Element Across
Curriculum:
Knowledge Acquisition
Multiple Intelligence
Information and
Communication
Teaching Aids:
Word cards
Vocabulary book
Box

words and the meaning on the

plane.
6. Teacher conducts a quiz with the
pupils.
7. Pupils that

are

able

to

give

meaning and spell the word that

teacher asks will get the chance to
fly the plane into a box that teacher
Practice

have prepare.
1. Teacher distributes the text to each

1. To improve pupils

pupil.
2. Teacher reads the text together

pronunciation skills.
2. To encourage pupils to
read.
3. To ensure that the

read a story from

with the pupils.

3. Teacher conducts Onionball Game.
4. Teacher asks students to read the

an Onionball.
2. Show
the

Onionball layer by layer.

5. Teacher corrects pupils if they

Onionball. This is

mispronounce.
6. Teacher discusses with the pupils

Whole class activity:

( 10 minutes)
Onionball Game
1. Today we will

the Onionball Hold

up the Onionball.
3. First, go to your
group. This group
is

previously

formed

from

previous lessons.
4. There is a story in
this

ball.

It

has

the content of the text.

Focused Skill: Reading

Integrated Skill: Writing
Element Across
Curriculum:
Multiple Intelligence

pupils comprehend the

passage.

Teaching Aids:
Onion ball full of
sentence strips,
Text

many layers. You

have to peel the
layers to read the
story.
Demonstrate
peeling one layer
of the Onionball.
5. Read
the
first
paragraph.
6. After that, throw
the ball to other
group.

Point

other groups.
7. Now, you
start!
8. Pupils

to
can

from

group peel the first

layer and read it in
a group.
9. That group throws
the

Onionball

to

other group.
10. The groups repeat
the steps until the
end of the story.

Production

Individual activity

1. Teacher distributes Worksheet

1. Check the pupils

Focused Skill: Reading

( 8 minutes)

Worksheet

1 to the pupils.
2. Teacher asks the pupils to

comprehension after they

Integrated Skill: Writing

Biography of the
Wright Brothers
-

Information
transfer

have read the passage.

complete the biography of the

Element Across

Wright Brothers.
3. Teacher rewards the pupil that

Curriculum:
Multiple Intelligence

able to complete it first and get

it all correct.
4. Teacher discusses the answers

Teaching Aids:
Worksheet 1

with the pupils.

Closure
(1 minutes)

Whole class activity

1. Teacher asks pupils about the good

value of the Wright Brothers.
2. Teacher asks the pupils to fly the
plane while saying one word that
they have learnt today.
3. Teacher asks the pupils to write the
words that they have learnt in their
vocabulary book as homework.

1. To ensure pupils
understandings and

Moral Value:

instil moral values.

Determination