Transactional Plan Format
Grade: 3
Month:
Subject: English
Week:
Lesson No.: 5
Lesson: The Hare and the Tortoise
Competency:
- Develops reading, listening and speaking skills
- Learns moral values like patience and hard work
- Reads simple sentences with proper pronunciation
- Answers questions from the story
Teaching Materials:
- English textbook
- Picture cards of hare and tortoise
- Blackboard and chalk
- Flashcards with new words
Pre-Knowledge Test:
- Have you seen a hare or a tortoise?
- Which animal runs fast?
- Which animal moves slowly?
- Do you know any story about animals?
Introduction:
Teacher will show the pictures of children playing games and ask:
- What games are the children playing?
- Which game do you like most?
- Have you ever taken part in a race?
Teacher introduces the story The Hare and the Tortoise and explains that it is a story about a race between two friends.
Concept Building:
- Teacher reads the story aloud with proper pronunciation.
- Students repeat paragraph by paragraph.
- Difficult words like challenge, race, steadily, finish line are explained.
- Teacher explains the story in simple language:
- The hare was very fast and proud.
- The tortoise moved slowly but steadily.
- The hare slept during the race.
- The tortoise continued walking and won the race.
- Teacher discusses the moral of the story:
- Slow and steady wins the race.
- We should never be overconfident.
Consolidation and Reinforcement:
Teacher asks oral questions:
- Who challenged the tortoise to a race?
- Why did the hare sleep?
- Who won the race?
- What lesson do we learn from the story?
Students retell the story in simple sentences.
Practice:
- Read the lesson loudly.
- Fill in the blanks:
- The hare was very ________.
- The tortoise moved ________.
- The tortoise won the ________.
- Write 3 sentences about the tortoise.
- Draw and colour a hare and a tortoise.
- Speak a few lines on “Hard Work and Patience.”