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Lesson Plan: Little Blue Boy Story

This lesson plan is for a 30-minute Primary 4 class on the short story "Little Blue Boy". The lesson focuses on plot, characterization, setting, and point of view. Students will practice speaking, reading, and writing while developing literal comprehension and emotional response skills. The teacher will read the story aloud while showing illustrations and pausing to ask comprehension questions. Students will then analyze character evidence from the text to describe the main characters of Papa Fanga, Mama Fanga, and the Little Blue Boy. The goal is for students to appreciate the arrival of a new family member and accept differences among people.

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Lesson Plan: Little Blue Boy Story

This lesson plan is for a 30-minute Primary 4 class on the short story "Little Blue Boy". The lesson focuses on plot, characterization, setting, and point of view. Students will practice speaking, reading, and writing while developing literal comprehension and emotional response skills. The teacher will read the story aloud while showing illustrations and pausing to ask comprehension questions. Students will then analyze character evidence from the text to describe the main characters of Papa Fanga, Mama Fanga, and the Little Blue Boy. The goal is for students to appreciate the arrival of a new family member and accept differences among people.

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Lesson Plan 2

Class Level: 2 Primary 4


Time: 30 minutes
Genre: Short Stories – Little Blue Boy
Literary Focus: Prose
¨Plot ¨Characterization ¨Setting
¨Point of View
¨Theme

¨Features

Integrated Language Skills: Speaking, Reading, writing


Thinking Skills: Literal Comprehension – Recognition of details.
Higher Order T Skill: Emotional response to the content and identification with
characters
Multiple Intelligences: Visual / Spatial, Verbal/linguistic
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to: appreciate the arrival of a new family member
by expressing their feelings, accept the differences among people and extract words from the text to
describe the characters.
Prior Knowledge: Pupils have been introduced to the book in the previous lesson.

Procedures:

Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Tasks Teaching Rationale


Procedures Resources
Preparatory Activities Pupils express their Picture of a baby. To draw the attention
(4 mins) feelings and reaction of the pupils to the
towards newborns in excitement created
their family. by newborns.
I. Teacher asks the
pupils questions
pertaining to
arrival of new
family members.

e.g – Do you love your


baby sister or brother?

- How did your parents


react to the new baby?
- Can you describe the
baby?
Teacher distributes the
story book to the pupils.

Main Activities
(18 mins) Page 1 - 6
Teacher reads the story with Pupils listen and
proper intonation and read silently.
expression. Teacher flashes
the illustrations from
Pupils respond to the
– Teacher reads the questions.
first page and posts
a few questions.

i. Who are the two


people in the
story?

How did Mama


Fanga know that
a baby boy was
about to be
born?

What baby do
Papa Fanga /
Mama Fanga
want?

Who has light


/dark coloured
skin?
Teacher continues reading
the story and stops Pupils watch the Students should be
occasionally to post screen while listening able to recall the
questions. to the teacher. information obtained
from the question
Why were all the answer session.
Students respond to
relatives waiting the questions orally.
outside the hut?
.
Why was Papa
Fanga worried?

III. What did


everyone do after
they heard the
first cry of the
baby?

IV. What happened


next?

How did Papa


Fanga react
when he saw the
baby?

VI. Did he dislike the


baby? How do
you know?

VII. Was the LBB


normal?

Why do you think


the Papa Fanga
build a high
fence around the
hut?
Closing Activities Pupils study the Task sheet, story Pupils should be able
(6 mins) worksheet and use book to recall the evidence
the story book to from page 1 – 6
extract evidence of describing the main
Character -Evidence character and characters.
Teacher distributes a task behaviour and fill in
sheet with the picture of the blanks in the
Papa Fanga, Mama Fanga space provided.
and Little Blue Boy. Teacher
instructs the pupils to extract
words from the book to
describe their character.
Young couple, loving,

Blue Boy joy to his parents.

Light skinned,

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