Pre service Teachers Name: Bonnie Lilford

Mentor Teachers Name: Kirsty Johnson

School: Ballam Park P.S

Year level: Grade 3/4

Lesson Focus: Understanding main idea
Learning Outcomes (What do you want the students to learn in this lesson? i.e. what new
Knowledge/understandings, Skills, Values and attitudes will they be able to demonstrate?)
I want the students to be able to understand the concept of main idea. This includes finding the
main idea of the story and being able to demonstrate their understanding of main idea. They need
to be able to look at the 5ws of who, what, where, when and who.
Students Prior Learning (What has already been taught/learned about this content/skill?)
Students have touched on the concept of main idea, so this lesson will be around building their
skills.

Teaching and Learning Preparation (What resources will you need to prepare?)
-Powerpoint-demonstrates how we find main idea.
-Youtube Video of story

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Teaching and Learning plan

Lesson Phase
Orientation /Introduction
How will you motivate and
explain the learning intention
of this lesson?
What kinds of questions
might you ask?
This should link to prior
learning experiences.

The introduction to the lesson will be showing the students the

powerpoint on main idea. We will discuss how we find main idea in
a story by looking at the 5ws. I will get the students to do this by
looking at their hand:
- The thumb stands for who
- The pointer finger stands for what
- The middle finger stands for where
- The ring finger stands for when
- The pinky finger stands for why
I will get the students to demonstrate the 5ws with me on their
hand, and explain how these help us to find the main idea in a
story.

Teaching strategies/
Learning Activities
What strategies will the
students be engaged in to
achieve the learning
outcomes?
How will you cater for a
diversity of learning needs?
How will you manage
transitions between various
lesson phases/activities?
What kinds of questions might
you ask?

The students will then be read the story, Too Many Tamales,
which is on youtube. Whilst watching they will need to keep in
mind:
- Who is in the story?
- What did the main character do?
- Where did the main character do it?
- When did the main character do it?
- Why did the main character do it?
Once the story has been read, the students will need to answer the
questions about the story. They will then need to form a sentence
with all the information about the story to give them the main idea.

What formative and/or

summative assessment
strategies will be used in this
lesson?

Conclusion /Closure
How will you capture the
main ideas of the lesson?

I will conclude the lesson by getting the students to show me what

they think the main idea of the story is.

What kinds of questions will

you ask?

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