LESSON PLANNING

on

Four-Pronged Approach

Standard Format of a Lesson Plan

I. Objectives

I. Subject Matter

II. Procedure

III.Evaluation

IV.Assignment

Sample Outline of a Lesson Plan

in Reading

I. Objectives (K-S-A)

II. Subject Matter

III. Procedure

Pre- Reading

> arousing interest by activating prior knowledge

> unlocking of difficulties

> presentation of the lesson through motive questions

During Reading

> the learner gets to have an actual encounter with the text

> use of any of the following strategies

> directed reading thinking activity

> SQ 3R

> directed inquiry

> guided reading

> think aloud

> story grammar

> semantic mapping/semantic webbing

Post Reading Critical Thinking skills

> engagement activities (role plays, slogan making, poster making, debate, etc)

> enrichment activities

> application of new knowledge

IV. Assessment (KPUP)

V. Assignment

The Four-Pronged ApproachPart Activities

First Prong Developing Genuine Love for

Reading (GLR)

1. Procedure for story reading

- Unlocking of difficult words

- Motivation

- Motive question

2. During Reading

Second Prong Developing Comprehension

and Critical Thinking Skills (CT)

1. Discussion Techniques

- Gradual Psychological Unfolding (GPU)

- Dimension Ordinary (DO)

- Dimension Intensive (DI)

2. Engagement Activities

Third Prong Development of Oral Language

and Correct Use of Grammatical

Structure (GOLD)

1. Presentation Lesson

2. Dialogue

3. Presentation Exercise

4. Assimilation

Fourth Prong The Transfer Stage Phonics Approach/Other Creative

transfer skill of learning

DEMONSTRATION OF A LESSON USING FOUR-PRONGED APPROACH

LESSON PLAN in ENGLISH V

• Name of Teacher:

Elizabeth Joy D. Divinagracia

• Learning Area: English

• Quarter: 3 Module No.:

I. Objectives:

At the end of the session, the pupils can:

• define difficult words through context clues

• identify the significant details of the story

• use the past form of the verb

• compose a diary of one’s experience

• demonstrate how ones faith is strengthened

II. Subject Matters: GAPNOD

• Reading Skills:Using context cluesNote significant details

• Identify the setting, character, ending of the story read• Draw a picture of incident/character from the story• Identify oneself with a character in the story • Grammar Skill:

Use the Past form of the Verb• Writing Skill:

Writing a Diary• Materials:

Big Book on “Gapnod” (Legend of Sibulan)Graphic OrganizersTask cards

III. Procedure

FIRST PRONG

A. Pre-reading Activities1. Vocabulary Development:

Identify the meaning of each underlined word in each sentence.

a. Glimpse- I only got a glimpse on it, butthe way I see, it is just a rat.

b. Grumble- Mother grumbles when she isoverworked, she always complains aboutdishwashing and tidying up our rooms.

c. Stunned- The survivors stood inconfused and stunned silence ashundreds of dead bodies lay on the street.

d. Enlightenment- I would always askenlightenment from our teacher. Shewould clarify everything.

e. Image- I had a sudden mental image ofDaniel Padilla waiting for me with flowers.

f. Flock- Flocks of people are lining up forLady Gaga concert.

2. Motivation

Show a picture of driftwood and ask thepupils if they have spotted that object intheir locality. Ask, “Do you know how itserves as a connection to the faith andbelief to the townspeople?”

3. Motive Questions“What is a gapnod?” “Why would a person grumble?“How can you connect the driftwood to

the faith of its townspeople?”

Say:

“Gapnod is a Visayan word fordriftwood. Listen to the selection and findout its significance to the faith of thetownspeople.”

B. During Reading

The teacher will use the Directed Reading Thinking Activity.

• 1st paragraph- What time of the day the fishermen went out to the sea?

• 2nd paragraph- Why did the fisherman grumble?

• 3rd paragraph- Why were they stunned? What did they see on the driftwood?

• 4th paragraph- Why did the other man goand see their parish priest?

• 5th paragraph- Why was the priestsurprised? How did the people react to thepriest’s information?

• 6th paragraph- Who became the patronsaint of the place? When did they

celebrate the feast of their patron saint?

• 7th paragraph- Why do thousands ofdevotees flock to St. Anthony of PaduaParish Church every 13th of the month?What is the saint known for?

SECOND PRONG

C. Post Reading Activities

1. Developing Comprehension and CriticalThinking Skills

a. What do you call a floating piece of wood?b. Where did the fishermen notice the

gapnod?c. Why did one fisherman grumble?d. What time of the day did the fisher folks of

Sibulan went out to the sea?

e. How many times did the fisherman withno catch drop his net?

f. What was in the driftwood?

g. To whom did one man ask forenlightenment?

h. When was the feast of St. Anthony ofPadua?

i. What is the saint known for?

j. If the other man did not go to the priest,would the people in Sibulan have a patronsaint?

2. Engagement Activities

Group the pupils into five. Each group will have a corresponding activity.Group 1- Using the graphic organizer, identifythe setting, character, and ending of the story.Group 2-Draw the most dramatic incident orcharacter from the story. Explain in two or threesentences why it affected or impressed the group.Group 3- Who among the characters can you identifyyourself with? Is it the fisherman, priest, or thetownspeople? Show this on a Venn Diagram.Group 4-Dramatize the part of the story that hasstrengthened the faith of the townspeople.Group 5- Present the important plot of the storythrough the Story Frame.

THIRD PRONG

1. Presentation Lesson

Say: You have learned that the simple past tense of averb expresses an action done in the past-yesterday, last year, a while ago, long time ago,in 2004, and so on.We don’t know if people before kept a diary. Itis not likely. But let us imagine what thefisherman in the story, Gapnod, did. Translatedinto modern form it might look like this.

Identify the verbs and how these are changed intopast form.

The Fisherman’s Diary, June 1520

Sibulan, Negros Oriental

• Thurs. 10- Today, I heard that there was anew priest in town. I wanted to see him butmy friends and I were stuck in Tiya Sayong’stubaan. Shucks, we were so drunk!

• Fri. 11- I got worried, my wife told me that wedidn’t have enough rice. I felt determined toset sail for some fish the next day. With themoney from my catch, I could buy a month’ssupply of rice. Oh man, what a hard-knockedlife!

• Sat. 12- While in the middle of the sea, I gotdistracted with the piece of wood floatingbeside my banca. It had an image on it. Ibrought it back to the shore. Just as everyonecelebrated, the new priest came and wasamazed. He told us it was St. Anthony ofPadua! Everybody cheered! I was like, “St.Anthony, who?”

• Sun. 13- We celebrated again. Everyone ate,danced and worshipped our new patronsaint, my wife included. That was enough forme.

2. Practice Exercise

Make a sentence using the past form of the following verbs.

• Regular Verbs

call cook live scrub

clap help plant study

• Irregular Verbs

be fly take tell

build go run write

3. Assimilation

Other heroes’ diaries

• Choose one of your favorite heroes.Imagine that he/she kept a diary. Translateinto English what he/she wrote for oneweek. Use a sheet of paper for this.

• Note: Don’t forget to use the past tense.

4. Generalization

a. What do you call a daily written record of personal experience?

b. What verb tense do you use when writing an experience?

c. How will you change the verb into its past form?

d. What do you call those verbs in which we add –d or –ed to show its past tense?

e. What do you call those verbs in which we change the spelling differently?

f. How can you get the meaning of the word without the use of a dictionary?

FOURTH PRONGThe Transfer Stage

One week in the life of…

Did you have an interesting or boring week?Write down what you did over the last fivedays. Put yesterday’s date in the bottom boxof the left-hand column, then count back fivedays. Be sure to write in the correct month,day, and date. Write in a few short sentencesabout the interesting things you did and thethings that happened during the last fivedays. Write these in your diary.

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IV. Evaluation

Part I Answer the following:1. To my sorrow, I watched the driftwood floated

in vain on a hopeless, lonely sea. Driftwood means ________________________.

2. The patron saint of Sibulan is _____________.3. What was the people’s means of livelihood?4. What happens when one ask for enlightenment? 5. How did the “gapnod” connect to the faith of the

towns’ people?6. If you were one of the townspeople, would you

believe the priest’s judgment that the image was St. Anthony of Padua? Why or why not?

Part IIHere’s the diary from the fisherman’s wife. Fill in with the

correct past form of the verbs inside the parentheses:

October 11

Dear Diary,

We (go)______ to the market this afternoon. Darn those kids again! They (drag) _______ my Junjun to Tiya Sita’sempty boxes of onions. I’m sure they (play) _________ with the boxes and true enough, Junjun (appear)______ with a smirk and a smell.

I just (shrug) _______ and (wish) ______ that he just (stay) in the house. My husband (insist) ________ so I (bring) _________ him. Oh, well, so much for regrets, Tiya Sita (is) _________ already mad!

VI. Assignment

Compose a story using your crafted diary. Write it on a whole sheet of paper.

Project

Craft a reading plan using the Four-Pronged Approach

The power of words