LESSON PLANNING

LEARNING AREA: Literacy and Interpersonal Skills

YEAR LEVEL: 1-2

TIME: 45 mins

LESSON TOPIC: English/engaging with IB Learner Profile

AIM:

(From ACARA, or Desired Student Outcome from SACSA)

Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing

interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656)
Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal
responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences
(ACELT1582)
Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend
students own and others' ideas in discussions (ACELY1666)

LESSON OUTCOMES: (These should relate to both the topic and to the curriculum link)
Students will engage with the book Wilfred Gordon McDonald Patridge to encourage
reflection on their personal experiences
Students will use capital letters and full stops in writing about their own experiences
REFERENCES & RESOURCES:
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge
Love heart shapes
STUDENT ASSESSMENT:
Reflection on personal experiences
Engaging in conversation about Wilfreds actions and comparing it to their own
SELF ASSESSMENT:
Was this lesson planned well?
Were students able to engage with the book and reflect upon Wilfreds actions?

TEACHING PROCEDURE:
TIME
5 mins

STEPS
1

INTRODUCTION (whole class)

Have students come in and sit on the floor
Show them the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald
Partridge
Ask them some opening questions about their
experiences with older people, what makes the
older people they know special, what activities
they do together, talk about, how spending time
with an older person is different/the same as a
younger person.

10 mins
2.

EXPLICIT TEACHING (whole class)

and/or
GUIDED DISCOVERY (whole class)
Read the story to the class, encouraging
reflecting, predicting and making connections

COMMENTS

20 mins 3

along the way

Discuss important memories and things that are
important to the students
Discuss Wilfreds friendship with Miss Nancy
Pose questions such as,
-How did Wilfred show kindness toward Miss
Nancy? How did he help her?
-What were some things that Wilfred and Miss
Nancy had in common?
Ask students to reflect on a time that they helped
somebody or did something caring for someone
Give the students an example of a time that you
did something nice for someone

EXPLORATION/PRACTICE(group/individual)
Show students the kind hearts shapes
Explain that students are going to write a
sentence about a time that they did something
caring for somebody
Hand out the hearts for students to take one and
pass it on
Ask students with an o in their name to move to
their desks, an e, and an a
Give the students time to work on this activity
Gain students attention once people begin to
finish their writing, explain that once they are
finish that they can begin to draw a picture in the
available space

10 mins
4 CONCLUSION (whole class share/reflect)
Clap your hands and ask students to return to the
floor with their heart
Ask a few students to share their caring heart and
the experience that they reflected on
Ask the students to compare what they did to
what Wilfred did in the book