Student-Teacher: sheikha sultan Date: 7/11/2018

EPR 2603 Primary Lesson Planning Template Year 2, Sem 2 Mini-lesson

Grade Level: grade 5

Subject: English
Learning Outcome: By the end of this lesson students will be able to.

Identify the features and structure to the introduction of an explanation text.

Write the introduction of an explanation text about why we celebrate UAE National Day.

Resources Preparation (what do you need to do/make before

Pre-writing class?)
• Video about explanation texts.
• PowerPoint presentation that teach about Make a PowerPoint presentation to include information about
explanation texts. explanation texts.
• PowerPoint presentation that shows examples Find suitable videos for the lesson.
of explanation texts. Write down a paragraph as an example for the students.
• Video about why we celebrate UAE national Print Word bank for the students.
day. Find good explanations texts for the activity.
While-writing Print the word cards that will be used for the second activity.
• notebooks so that the students write in them. Have white paper ready for the students to draw on.
• Word bank to help the students find words for
writing. Key vocabulary/ Target Language
Post-writing
• Criteria that lists what the students need have UAE
in their writing for them to self-assess. National Day
Explanation Text
• notebook to draw in.
Subheadings

Opening (warmer activity + teacher introduction/demonstration of small group activities)

Starter
Show the students a video about explanation text and have the students take notes.
Time: 25 min

Lesson
Teacher teach the students about the explanation text and its feature and structure through using the
Whole

PowerPoint presentation.
Teacher show the other PowerPoint presentation to show the students an example of explanation texts.
What is an explanation text?
What’s the purpose of an explanation text?
Who can tell me about the structure of the explanation text.
What are the features of the explanation text?
Independent Experience
Pre-writing
Show the students a video and UAE national day and tell them to take notes.
Give the students a word bank sheet and have them open their notebooks and tell them to write an introduction
about why we celebrate the national day. Which should include
Title.
Opening statement in the form of a question such as how or why?
40 min
Small

The topic of the explanation.

After writing students will receive criteria that what lists what the students need to have in their writing so that
they can assess themselves
Time:

Students will read their introduction outload for the rest of the class
Independent Experience post-writing
Students will receive different explanation texts that they must read then search for
Title.
Opening statement in the form of a question such as how or why?
The topic of the explanation.
 The structure of the text.
The features of the text.
And the information that answer the question.
Then they will write it in their notebook
Then they are going to do it by themselves. After finishing this activity, the students are going to list the
answers out loud for the rest of the class to hear.

Independent Experience (small group activity 2)

Group 1
Each group of students will be given small cards with words related to the explanation text and the they have to
match it to the meaning.
There are ten-word cards and ten meanings cards that have to be matched like
Title
Paragraphs
purpose
verbs
after finishing this activity each group is going to get to do the activity the other group did. Then they are going
to see the answers so that they can assess them selves
Independent Experience (small group activity 3)
The students are going to receive white paper and they must draw about National day and write a sentence to
describe their picture.

Closing (review learning -LO)

The rest of the class who did not have time to read their introduction can take this as a chance to share what
Time: 15 min

they wrote with the rest of the class.

Whole

Assessment (to be done during activity time, who and what will be assessed?)
the students will be assessed individually each student reads her introduction outload will be assessed to see how
her/his writing is.

Reflection WWW/EBI
The lesson started the students watched the video and understood the meaning of explanation text and they were able
to answer the questions gives to them and they enjoyed the activities that they were given and they wrote an
introduction about the national day.

Behavior management

While the students were behaved for most of the lesson they still made noise whenever they got exicted

Groupings/differentiation

The students were sitting in their normal seating.

Next Steps in learning and teaching

My next step is to make a more organized lesson.