Grade 5 English Lesson- A Rupee Goes a Long Way

LESSON FOCUS:
To practice gaining an understanding of texts

YEAR/LENGTH:
Year 5
30 minutes

Reading/Viewing & Speaking/Listening

ACHIEVEMENT STANDARD:
Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students own experiences
and present and justify a point of view (ACELY1699)
Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal
effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes (ACELY1796)
ASSESSMENT/EVIDENCE OF LEARNING:
Informal assessment of learning and understanding through discussion

Speaking and Listening

Students listen and ask questions to clarify content. They use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They
develop and explain a point of view about a textselecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources. They
contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives.

Reading and Viewing

They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings and events.

They describe how events, characters and settings in texts are depicted and explain their own responses to them.

PART &
TIMING
Introduction
(5 minutes)

LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Children to get appropriate subject textbook out and open to the correct page
so that they can follow the story whilst it is being read.
Introduce the story.

RESOURCES/EQUIPMEN
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New Gul Mohar Textbook
Eighth Edition-Reader 5
The A Rupee Goes a Long
Way Chapter

Body
(10 minutes)

New Gul Mohar Textbook

Read the story aloud to the children, ensuring to stop regularly at difficult words Eighth Edition-Reader 5
or unfamiliar phrases in order to check for the childrens understandings.
The A Rupee Goes a Long
Examples of these are highighted on the side of the story-use these.
Way Chapter
Note- Due to ESL ensure that reading of the text is done clearly and
slowly

Conclusion

Once the story is completed have a short discussion with the children, in their
own words, what they thought the story was about?

(5 minutes)
Once the bell rings ensure that the children pack their things away ready for

New Gul Mohar Textbook

Eighth Edition-Reader 5
The A Rupee Goes a Long
Way Chapter

the next lesson.

Lesson evaluation:
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Were the children able to understand why the one-rupee coin was of no use?
Were the children able to identify and understand new words/phrases?
Were the children engaged in the activity?