This lesson plan outlines a 40-minute activity for 5th and 6th grade students focused on storytelling. It includes watching a video about a short story called "Princess Farmer," reading and discussing the story in groups, playing a true/false game about the story, and completing a puzzle and drawing activity related to the story. The lesson aims to help students learn to classify, understand, and convey meaning from stories while developing their listening, reading, and language skills.

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LESSON PLAN
GRADE: 5th - 6th GRADE
TIME: 40 MINUTES
ACTIVITY: STORYTELLING
LANGUAGE POINT: SHORT STORIES (PRINCESS FARMER)
MATERIALS: Video, Short Story, Board Markers, Pictures, Puzzle, Papers, Colors.
Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7hclODi7I
Puzzle Source: http://www.bookbox.com/games/princess-farmer-1
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
1. Students will be able to learn to classify the stories.
2. Students will be able to learn how to convey meaning from a text.
3. Students will be able to realize their pronunciation mistakes, when they read a passage
out loud.
4. Student will be able to have information about short stories.
5. Students will able to share their opinions and suggestions about the short stories that
they have read.
6. Students will be able to tell some short stories to their classmates.
7. Students will be able to develop their listening abilities and understanding skills
thanks to the short stories.
PROCEDURE
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
Firstly the teacher comes to the class and tells students to make to think about if they
know any story to share with their students. Then he or she gives them some time to do it
individually without discussing it with other students. Later students are divided into 5 groups
and discuss their answers with their friends by reading all of their answers together. Then, the
teacher says they will read a short story together, but firstly she or he shows some photos and
wants students to guess the topic of the story by looking these pictures. Then she or he hangs
them on the blackboard.
WHILE-READING ACTIVITIES
The teacher wants students to listen to the story and try to understand what is going on
in the story. He or she says that they don’t need to understand every detail of the story. They
just should listen to this story for general view. Then he or she distributes the stories to the

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students and this time wants the students to read the story silently and then they read it one
more time by listening to the story at the same time. So they can understand which parts that
they missed. After reading he teacher asks some questions to the students about the story.
They answer the questions by paraphrasing each part of the story.
POST-READING ACTIVITIES
The teacher says that they will play a game which is called as True or False. The class
is divided into two groups. The teacher says he will say some sentences about the story and
wants them to say that if it is true or false. He or she will ask a question and gives one minute
to both groups. Then they write the answer on a paper and show it to the teacher. It continues
like that.
At the end of the class, the teacher says that they play a puzzle game together. They
will try to complete a picture from the story. However, only one person can play this game at
the same time. So the teacher says the other students will draw the picture of the story which
they learned before. So other students will also be busy until their turn come.
REFERENCES
1. THE PRIMARY ENGLISH TEACHER’S GUIDE
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7hclODi7I
3. http://www.bookbox.com/games/princess-farmer-1