B5 English Language · Term 1 Week 6: Listening Comprehension

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B5.1.7.1.3 - Relate to lessons in stories

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Retell the sequence of events in a short story they have heard in the correct order.
Identify the main characters in a story and describe the role each character played.
State the setting (time and place) of a story.
Identify the moral lesson or lessons in a story and explain what the lesson means in their own words.
Relate the moral lesson of a story to a situation in their own lives and give one example of how they can apply the lesson.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Oral Language (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Listening Comprehension (1.7)
Content standard: B5.1.7.1 - Use appropriate skills and strategies to process meaning from texts
Indicator: B5.1.7.1.3 - Relate to lessons in stories
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 6 (Week 6 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: English Language Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 81
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Assist learners to revise the sequence of a story familiar to them.
- Have learners identify the characters in the story and the roles the characters played in the story or text.
- Learners again identify the setting of the story.
- Learners identify the moral lessons from the story.
- Help them discuss and relate the moral lessons to their lives using an example to illustrate that.
- Read a short story to learners and in groups, have them relate to the lessons in the story by repeating the above activities.