DAILY LESSON PLAN

(SKILL: READING)
Name: Mastura binti Stephan

Date: 17th August 2016

Day: Wednesday

Year: 4 Arif

Theme: World Of Knowledge

Topic: Unit 11 (Unity in Diversity)

Duration: 1 hour

No. Of Students:
21 (mixed-ability)
Time: 12.30 p.m- 1. 30 p.m

Lesson summary:.
Teacher shows a song video with its lyrics entitled The Ants Go Marching One By One. Teacher shows the
song video twice and asks the pupils to sing and dance to the song. For pre-reading, teacher shows two
paragraphs of a text about ants. Teacher guides the pupils to read, then asks the pupils to do choral reading and
group reading. Teacher asks questions regarding the text. Teacher distributes worksheets to the pupils and guide
them in answering the questions. The pupils then sit in groups and teacher does a quiz sesson. The teacher
announces the winner. As a closure, teacher asks the pupils to sing the song that they have learned during the
set induction along with its movements.

Content Standard:
2.2 By the end of the 6 year primary schooling, pupils will be able to demonstrate understanding of variety
of linear and non-linear texts in the form of print and non-print materials using a range of strategies to
construct meaning.
Learning Standard:
2.2.2 Able to read and understand phrases and sentences from:
a) linear texts

Pupils previous knowledge:

The pupils have been introduced to the text used in this lesson during the previous lesson.
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:
1) fill in the blanks with at least 8 out of 10 answers correctly .

Content: Ants live in large groups called colonies. Each colony consists of three types of ants. They are the
queen, the workers, and the males. The queen and the males have wings, while the workers do not. Usually, a
colony consists of only one queen ants. The queen is the only ant that can lay eggs. The queen is also the
largest ant in the colony. Some take care of newly hatched ants called larvae. Some gather food and keep their
home clean.
Educational Emphases: Multiple intelligence, knowledge acquistion
HOTS: Application

Moral Values : Cooperation

Teaching Aids: LCD Projector, laptop, speaker, song The Ants Go Marching One by One, questions (for
teacher during the quiz), worksheets, mini boards, marker pens.

Stage / Time

Teaching and Learning

Activities

Language Content

Teachers Notes

DAILY LESSON PLAN

(SKILL: READING)
1)Teacher shows a song entitled
The Ants Go Marching One By
One with its lyrics.

SET INDUCTION
12.30 - 12.35 p.m

2) Pupils watch the video and read

the lyrics.
3) Teacher plays the song twice
and let the pupils sing and dance
to the song.

1) Teacher reads the first

paragraph and the pupils repeat
after her.
2) Teacher asks the pupils to do
choral reading.

PRE-READING
12.35 12.50 p.m

3) Teacher asks the girls, then the

boys to read.
4) Teacher points out the new
words and let the pupils pronounce
it.

1) Can you guess the topic

Teaching aids:
LCD projector,
laptop, speaker,
song The Ants Go
Marching One by
One

that we will learn today?

Educational
emphasis:
Multiple Intelligence
(bodily kinesthetic &
musical)

1) I will read the text and you

should repeat after me.
2) Now, I want you to read
together by yourself.
3) I want the girls to read first,
continued by the boys.
4) Can someone tell me what
is the meaning of text that we
read just now?

Teaching aids:
Presentation slides,
LDC Projector,
laptop.
Educational
Emphases:
Knowledge
Acquisition

5) Teacher explains the meaning

of the paragrapgh.

WHILE READING
12.50 1.10 p.m

1) Teacher distributes
worksheets to the pupils
and asks the pupils to read
the instructions together.
2) Pupils fill in the blanks with
the correct answers.

POST READING
1.10 1.25 p.m

1) Teacher asks the pupils to sit in

groups.
2) For the quiz, teacher asks
10 questions and give
them 20 seconds to
answer each question.
3) Pupils write their answers
on their groups writing
board using the marker
pen.
4) They have to raise their

1) Look at your worksheet.

Now, read the instructions
together aloud.

Teaching aids:
Worksheets.

2) Do you understand how to

do it?

Educational
Emphases:
Application

1) You have to listen carefully

to my questions and I will give
you maximum 20 seconds to
write your answer.

Teaching aid:
Questions (for
teacher), mini
writing boards,
marker pens.

2) In a count of three, raise

your board.
3) Each correct answer will be

Educational
emphasis:
Application

given 2 marks.
Moral value:

DAILY LESSON PLAN

(SKILL: READING)
board after the times up.
5) Teacher gives marks to each
group.

Cooperation

6) Teacher announces the winner.

CLOSURE
1.25 -1.30 p.m

1) Teacher asks the pupils to sing

the song that they have learned
during the set induction along with
its movements.

1) Now let us go marching

with the ants! Are you ready?

Educational
emphasis:
Multiple Intelligence
(bodily kinesthetic &
musical)