Listening Comprehension · B4 English Language

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B4.1.7.1.4 - Use background knowledge to aid in understanding and building new knowledge while listening to narrative texts

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify the events in a simple narrative text they listen to from teacher read-aloud.
Connect events in a new narrative to events in stories they already know from home, school, or church.
Explain orally how their background knowledge helped them understand an unfamiliar word, character, or event in the narrative.
Share one piece of new knowledge they gained from listening to the narrative text.
Work with a partner or group to discuss the story’s events and agree on how the story connects to a familiar tale.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Oral Language (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Listening Comprehension (1.7)
Content standard: B4.1.7.1 - Use appropriate skills and strategies to process meaning from texts
Indicator: B4.1.7.1.4 - Use background knowledge to aid in understanding and building new knowledge while listening to narrative texts
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 5 (Week 5 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. 10
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Have learners listen to a narrative text.
- Learners in groups identify, discuss and relate the plot of the text to a familiar text.
- Have learners listen to the text a second time.
- In groups, learners share what they have learnt in the text.