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Grade 4 Week 6

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Plan

Listening and Speaking • Participates in discussions, justifying own opinion

• Responds sensitively to ideas and suggestions

• Gives balanced and constructive feedback on: plot, theme, setting,

characters

Reading and Viewing • Understands the vocabulary

• Identifies main and supporting ideas

• Identifies and discusses values in the text

• Reflects on texts read independently

• Retells story or main ideas in 3 to 5 sentences

• Expresses emotional response to texts read

Writing and Presenting • Uses appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation and spaces between

paragraphs

• Uses the dictionary to check spelling and meanings of words

• Uses the writing process

• Brainstorms ideas using mind maps

Language Structures and Conventions • Sentence level work: subject-verb agreement, past tense

• Word meaning: idioms and proverbs

Introduction • Theme: Fabulous Fables

• In the previous lesson you were introduced to fables. Today we will look at

another fable

• Can you remember the definition of a fable?

• Today we will look at another fable.

Consolidation • Retell stories in 3-5 sentences

• Write fable again, fine-tuning features

• Read daily.

• Definition of Idioms: Idioms are expressions that mean something different

from the usual meaning of the words. We use them over and over when we

speak.

Paper based resources:

DBE Workbook

Listening and Speaking -Activity 1-

Pg112

Reading and Viewing- Activity 2-112

Writing and Presenting- Activity 3-113

Language Structures and

Conventions-Activity 4-Pg115-116;

Pg118-119

Magazines

Textbook

Dictionary

Digital resources:

https://wcedeportal.co.za/curriculum-

supporthttps://wcedeportal.co.za/partners/#103031

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJxXeG-bLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruX6oQeLC3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJxXeG-bLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJxXeG-bLI https://www.literacyideas.com/latest/2016/8/24/free-fable-planning-tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUT_WSavAC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVHlVbIgUH0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tySLFboxzyM

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TEACHER’S

ACTIVITIES

Skills

(WHAT I am

going to

teach/guide/su

pport)

Teaching Methodologies/

(HOW I am going to

teach/guide/support…)

Resources / LTSM

(WHAT I am going

to use to

teach/guide/suppo

rt…)

Listening &

Speaking:

• Revise new vocabulary

Show them the pictures and the

title of the story

• Let them predict what the text is

about

• Create opportunity for learners to

pose relevant questions (. (what is

the setting of the story, setting,

characters, etc.) Ensure that they

use proper terminology in their

questioning

• Create opportunity to share what

they found out through their

questioning.

Worksheets provided.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruX6oQeLC3M

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJxXeG-bLI

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeJxXeG-bLI

4. https://www.literacyideas.com/latest/2016/8/24/free-fable-planning-tool

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUT_WSavAC8

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVHlVbIgUH0

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tySLFboxzyM

Reading &

Viewing:

• Pre-reading: allow learners predict

the text

• Model the reading of the text –

discuss vocabulary

• Show how learners can relate or

connect with the text.

• Discuss the features of a fables

again

Writing &

Presenting:

• Discuss features of a fable again

• Make sure learners are

comfortable with the concepts.

• Provide a writing frame for learners

to refer to.

Language

Structures &

Conventions:

• Explain regular and irregular verbs

again, past tense

• Explain and discuss Idiom

• Provide the learners with visual aids

to assist in the learners in their

understanding.

PARENT’S

ACTIVITIES

Same as for the

teacher.

Have a conversation about the theme

– avoid forced lectures.

Share thoughts

Show that you are also making

connections to the text i.e. relate the

text to your own life experiences.

Offer support and guidance

Access to websites:

such as Vodacom e-

school

Magazines

Newspapers

Dictionary

DBE Workbook

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LEARNER’S

ACTIVITIES

Learner activities:

Learner activities:

Speaking

1. Try to speak in full, fluent sentences when you speak about the pictures.

2. Ask an older sibling or parent to help with the cutting the pictures. Make use of

a blunt- nosed pair of scissors.

Reading

1. Make predictions about the text by looking at the title and the pictures.

2. Skim for words about the text and underline them.

3. Scan for words that you don’t know and circle them.

4. Search the text for specific details.

5. Can you connect with parts of the story?

Writing

1. Write an appropriate fable using the writing frame, animals as characters and

a variety of vocabulary.

Language

Complete the activities on

• Verbs

• Idioms

Activity 1: Listening and Speaking

Look at the pictures below.

• What do you think the fable will be about?

• Does the story include animals that can talk?

• Look at the pictures. What is the setting and where does the story take place?

• Do you think that this could really happen(realistic) or is it make-believe for the

story(unrealistic)?

Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 3

Figure 6

Figure 1 Figure 2

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Activity 2: Reading and Viewing

Read the Fable of the Frog and the Snail and answer the following questions:

A frog went out one beautiful summer's day, and on the road, he met a snail. Seeing the frog, the

snail called out loudly and friendly: "Good afternoon, frog!" "Good afternoon snail," said the frog.

Looking at her slowly crawling along he started to make fun of her and he boasted about his own

speed. But the snail replied, laughing: "You can be as the wind, still I will be in the kingdom of

Heerlijkheden before you. The frog, believing this to be simply impossible, proposed a race. "You are

on!" said the snail and set forth immediately. A little slowly to be sure, for she was carrying her house

with her on her back, as was her custom. The frog hopped a few hops forward and then turned

around to the snail and said: "Don't crawl along so. Instead hop like I do." And away he hopped.

However, arriving at the kingdom he found the gates closed and he had to wait till the gates would

be opened.

In the meantime, the snail crawled steadily onward and she too finally arrived at the kingdom of

Heerlijkheden. Of course, she also found the gates closed but for her that was no obstacle. She

simply crawled under it and thus won the race.

Indeed, there are those who are first who will be last and there are those who are last who will be

first.

1. Who are the characters?

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2. What is the setting of the story?

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3. What is the plot of the story?

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4. How does the story end?

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5. What is the moral of the story?

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6. Rewrite the story in 3-5 sentences.

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Activity 3: Writing and Presenting:

Look at the definition of a fable again below.

What is a fable? A fable is a story about magical creatures, animals, plants and places. It tells a story

with a moral message. Most fables are very old and many, like “the boy who cried wolf spaceship”,

are retold in a modern setting, but with the same message, you will find animals that can speak, and

natural settings with forests and rivers, in most fables

Then, using the frame provided, write your own fable. Remember to follow the writing process you

used in the previous lessons.

1. Plan your essay using a mind map; 2. Write your story out in rough; 3. Edit your spelling and

punctuation; 4. Revise your story; 5. Proof read your story; 6. Write your final draft

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Activity 4: Language Structures and Conventions

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Idioms- Definition:

Talk to your parent or teacher about the real meaning of the highlighted idioms (literal meaning).

Does it make sense?

Now write down what you think the idiom means (figurative meaning). How you think the idiom

started?

FUN ACTIVITIES ALERT!!!

FUN 1

Idioms are expressions that mean something different from the usual

meaning of the words. We use them over and over when we speak.

Let’s talk

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FUN 2

Go back to Activity 1. Cut out the pictures of the fable. Arrange it in order. In a separate class workbook,

write your own story based on the pictures.