STORYTELLING

              LESSON PLAN

Duration: 40 minutes

Grade: 5th

Age: 11

Student/Teacher:Seda AVCI

Topic: The Lazy Bear

Materials: Pictures, scissor, glue, 3D trees and animals, worksheets, real material (leaves)

Structure: Simple Present Tense

Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, students will be able to

- recognize the seasons

- name the seasons

-retell the structure that is supposed to be taught.

Warm Up:

Teacher comes to the class and says “Hello! How are you today?” Students give answers. Teacher says “What a nice day. Sun is up, trees are blossoming. What a nice spring day.” Teacher asks questions about today's topic to relate. “What is spring? Spring is a season. What are the other seasons? Do you remember from previous lessons?” T wants them to answer by using their previous knowledge. Teacher says “We have a story for this lesson. Let’s look vocabularies of this story.”

PRE STAGE:

Vocabulary Teaching:

Teacher shows the pictures of the animals, seasons and some verb. She sticks the pictures and writes the name of the animals, seasons and some verb one by one. She introduces seasons and some characters of the story.

T makes the meaning of some words clear by showing their pictures (spring, summer, autumn, winter, squirrel, skunk, tickle, belly.) and they repeat them all together at least three times.

Vocabulary Activity:

Teacher prepare a matching activity worksheet before the class. The left side of the paper, teacher gives the letters but each letter is in an incorrect order, she wants her students to put them in a correct order and wants them to match with the correct picture that are the right side of the paper.

 After saying the answers orally teacher wants her students to write the         correct forms of the letters on the board that based on voluntariness.Teacher and students check the answers altogether.

Art-Craft Activity:

Teacher wants her students to make animal puppets that are in the story.

Teacher gives the instruction:

“I'll give you the animals’ pictures. Color and cut them, then stick them on the straw.”

Teacher distributes the papers.

Teacher wants the students listen to learn at the end of the story, which season the lazy bear will wake up. Teacher says “We have a sleeping bear in our story. Let’s look which season he will wake up. We have a worksheet about this. You will listen to me carefully and you will put tic to the right season at the end of the story. Let’s start.”

WHILE ACTIVITY:

Teacher does the first telling by showing the animals and acting like them, by using different voices and different body movements. Teacher answers the worksheet with the students.

After first telling, they pass to the second telling. Teacher calls the students to the stage with their masks. Teacher divides students into groups according to their masks. (squirrel, frog, skunk.) Teacher tells the story again. When the teacher comes to the animals' part, she says and the students who represent that animal repeat the structure.

POST ACTIVITY:

Teacher gives the worksheet to students. Students make. Afterwards, they check the answer with the teacher.

Teacher asks questions “Does the bear wake up in winter?” “Does he sleep in summer?” “Do you wake up early?” “Do you sleep late” “Do you read books?” Teacher receives the answers from the students so that they can internalize the simple present structure.

CLOSURE:

Finally the lazy bear wakes up in spring. He wants to play games with his friend. So say goodbye to him.

See you tomorrow.