Lesson Plan of Comprehension English Grade 3
Lesson Plan of Comprehension
English Grade 3
Students’ Learning Outcomes
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Apply strategies to comprehend questions for
appropriate response by marking key word, verbs and tenses in a variety of the
following questions:
0.
Factual
0.
Personal response
0.
Interpretive
Information for Teachers
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Some types of questions which the students will
face are; factual, personal response and interpretive.
·
Questions based on facts are factual questions. They
have simple straight forward answers.
For example:
0.
What are you doing?
1.
How is this done?
2.
What is the capital of Pakistan?
·
Personal response questions can have different
answers depending on personal experience, preferences and opinions and differ
from person to person.
·
Who is the best cricket player?
·
Which is the best weather?
·
An interpretive question can have more than one
correct answer. However, the answer must be supported proof from the text.
·
Why was the main character of the story angry?
·
There will be some clues that can lead to this
answer e.g. a dialogue, action or description of the events.
·
While teaching
the lesson, the teachers should also use the textbook where required.
Material / Resources
Chalks, marker, board, textbook.
Worm Up Activity
·
Recap the ‘wh’ question words
with students in details.
·
Ask and discuss their usage
with the students.
Development
Activity 1
·
Write the following questions
on the board.
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What day is it?
·
What day was it yesterday.
·
Who is the monitor of the
class? Who is your best friend?
·
What color is the board?
·
What is your favorite color?
·
Ask a few students to give
answers
·
Under line the verb and
underline the verbs and exercise the question words.
·
Ask what question words tell
us a hand what happened?
·
Ask what question words tell
us and how this information help us in answering questions more accurately (who=person,
what=thing, when=time, where=place , where = place, why=reason/cause)
·
Focus their attention on the
tense of the questions.
·
Now ask them to compare and their answer with others for the following questions:
·
Who is your best friend
·
What is your favorite color? There
will be different answers since these questions require personal response and
everybody has his/her own likes/ dislikes and opinions.
·
Explain that there are some
strategies which can be used to understand the questions easily and today they
are going to learn that.
Activity 2
·
Ask the students to read the
given text carefully and discuss in pairs.
·
Monitor and help the students
while reading and discussing important points.
·
After some discussion ask the
students to answer the questions given at the end of the passage.
·
Write answers of some
questions in front of the class and ask them to comprehend and answer other
questions.
Sum Up / Conclusion
·
Conclude the lesson by asking
them tell what type of words are key words in a question.
Assessment
·
Once the students have done
the question answers, ask them to tell the answer.
·
Write correct answers on the
writing board and ask the students to note down the correct answer in their
notebooks.
·
Appreciate the students on
correct responses.
Follow Up
·
Ask the students to find out
two, two interpretative, factual and personal questions in their textbooks or from
the newspaper and write down the responses in their notebooks. Also ask them to
mark the key words of each questions.
Sample text with questions for Activity 2
All things bright and
beautiful;
All creatures great and
small;
Everything has its
colors;
Almighty Allah made them
all.
Red! Blue! Green! These
balloons are
Beautify because they have
different
Colors. A
man is selling colorful balloons.
The children are looking at
them with interest.
It is difficult to choose a
balloon because they look so beautiful
We recognize things by their colors.
We know that grass and plants
are green.
Our hair is black.
We wear clothes of different
colors.
Some school boys wear grey pants as
uniform.
We can get new colors by mixing
different colors.
We mix white and black colors to get
grey.
Mixed colors look more beautiful.
When we mix yellow and red color, we get
orange color.
Sometimes
we cannot express the mixed colors exactly and call them light or dark colors.
We can see rainbow after the rain.
Rainbow display beautiful colors.
It has seven colors: violet, indigo, blue,
green, yellow, orange and red.
Questions
1.
What makes our world
beautiful? (interpretive)
2.
How many colors does a
rainbow have? (factual)
3.
Why is it difficult to choose
a balloon? Have you ever bought a balloon?
( personal / response)
4.
Which is your favorite
color? (personal response)
5.
What colors do we mix to get
grey color? (factual)
6.
When does a rainbow appear on
the sky? (factual)
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