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Quarter 1
Lesson Exemplar Lesson 1
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for English 1

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MATATAG K TO 10 CURRICULUM

Lesson Exemplar for English Grade 4
Quarter 1: Lesson 1 of 8 (Week 1)
SY 2024-2025

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ENGLISH/QUARTER 1/ GRADE 4

I. CURRICULUM CONTENT, STANDARDS, AND LESSON COMPETENCIES

A. Content The learners demonstrate their expanding vocabulary knowledge and grammatical awareness, comprehension of
Standards literary and informational texts, and composing and creating processes; and their receptive and productive skills in
order to produce age-appropriate and gender-responsive texts based on one’s purpose, context and target audience.

B. Performance The learners apply comprehension of literary and informational texts and produce narrative and expository texts based
Standards on their purpose, context, and target audience using simple, compound, and complex sentences, and age-
appropriate and gender-sensitive language.

C. Learning EN4LR-1-1 Comprehend literary texts

Competencies 1. Identify the setting, characters and plot
and Objectives 2. Sequence the events of a narrative (at least 6 events)
3. Make predictions
4. Draw conclusions based on the text read

D. Content Making Predictions

Elements of a Story
Drawing Conclusions

E. Integration

II. LEARNING RESOURCES

Bailey, C.S. (1906). The legend of the dipper. Accessed via CommonLit at https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/the-legend-of-the-dipper
Bloom, J. (2017, April 7). Elements of the story rap [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eY-fkyacW0&t=197s
Hess, N. (2014, September 9). Short story elements [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDmhl-SU5Yk&t=42s
Scratch Garden. (2015 November 15). Plot mountain! The plot diagram song. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWHZJZQDSE&t=128s

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III. TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCEDURE NOTES TO TEACHERS

A. Activating Prior DAY 1 Terms like characters, setting,

Knowledge Short Review conflict, ending can be cited to
Have students recall a familiar Filipino folk tale. The story of the monkey and the check students’ familiarity with
tortoise or the legend of pineapple can be recalled. Ask the students the following the terms.
questions:
Who are the characters in the story?
What problem did the characters encounter?
What was the most memorable part of the story?
What lesson does the story teach us?

B. Establishing 1. Lesson Purpose

Lesson Purpose Note that this week’s lesson will be about elements that make a story.
Students will also make guesses on what will happen next.

Ask students what they like about reading and telling stories. Ask what lessons
children can learn from stories.

2. Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary The Word Family Tree can be

Guide students in using the Word Family Tree. Students can work on one word reproduced. Students can also
from the options. draw it on manila paper or on
the board for presentation.
Word List: Students should also be asked
a. dipper to bring a dictionary for this
b. parched activity.
c. spill
d. refreshed
e. unselfish

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C. Developing and DAY 2
Deepening 1. Explicitation
Understanding Stories have characters, setting, series of events, and moral lessons. Ask
students what they like best about stories. Have them share their favorite
stories.

2. Worked Example The parts of the story can be

distributed in paper strips. A
Guide students in making predictions by presenting the story one part at a time.
copy may also be folded so
The predicting questions indicated here may be used.
students read the text one part
at a time.
Introduce the story. “The Legend of the Dipper” was originally written by Carolyn
Sherwin Bailey in1906. A version for storytelling was written by J. Berg Patience is key in eliciting
Esenwein & Marietta Stockard for the South Texas Christian Schools Speech predictions. Record students'
Meet 2011-2012. The two versions were combined and modified for this lesson. predictions by writing key
words on the board so the class
Before reading, a photo of the constellation big dipper may be shown. Explain can go back to their predictions
how the stars form the shape of a dipper. Photos of tin dipper may also be shown after reading the parts of the
for comparison. This is to have students imagine the events in the story where story.
the main character used a dipper all throughout the story.

The Legend of the Dipper

A kind act is often its own reward

There had been no rain in the land for a very long time. It was so hot and dry
that the land was parched and brown and even the big, strong trees were dying.
The water dried up in the creeks and the fountains stopped bubbling.

Make Predictions:
▪ What could the people feel in this kind of setting? What makes you say
that?
▪ What do you think would be the problem of the main character who is a
little girl?

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All the people and creatures were so thirsty! Everyone felt weak.

There was one little girl whose mother grew very ill. “I must have a drink of clear
cold water,” cried the mother, as she lay in bed, so weak and suffering from
thirst.

Make Predictions:
▪ What do you think the little girl will do? Why do you think so?

The little girl took her tin dipper and began her search for water in the dark
night. By and by she found a tiny little spring up on a mountainside. It was
almost dry. The water dropped, dropped, ever so slowly from under the rock.
The girl held her dipper carefully and caught the drops. She waited a long time
until the dipper was full of water. Then she started down the mountain holding
the dipper carefully, for she didn’t want to spill a single drop.

Make Predictions:
▪ What made it difficult for the little girl to get water?
▪ Do you think she will have an easy time on her way back home? What do
you think will happen next?

On the way she passed a poor little dog who had been following her. The dog
was panting for breath and was so thirsty. The little girl looked at her dipper
then poured some water into her hand and held it down for the little dog. He
lapped it up quickly and felt so refreshed. The little girl didn’t notice—but her
tin dipper had changed into a silver dipper and was just as full of water as it
had been before.

Make Predictions:
▪ What do you think the little girl will do? Why do you think so?
▪ Why do you think the tin dipper turned into silver?

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The little girl started on again, hurrying very fast, for she remembered how much
her mother needed her, but she had not gone very far when she met a stranger
in the road. He was tall and his eyes looked down with a wonderful smile into
the little girl’s face. He begged for a drink of the clear, cold water.

Make Predictions:
▪ What do you think the little girl will do? Why do you think so?
▪ What will happen next?

The little girl thought that her mother told her to always be kind to strangers,
so she held the water up to the stranger. Suddenly, as the stranger drank, the
silver dipper was changed into gold – full to the brim with sparkling water.

Make Predictions:
▪ What do you think the silver dipper turned into gold?
▪ What will happen next?

The little girl hurried along as fast as she could go. She was so tired and thirsty
but she would never take a drink herself. Her mother needs all the water that
was left. She finally arrived home and then came the greatest wonder of all!

Make Predictions:
▪ What do you think will happen next?
▪ What will happen next?

The little girl held the gold dipper to her mother’s lip and as the mother drank,
she became well and strong once more. And the gold dipper was changed to a
diamond dipper – shining and glittering with gems.

Make Predictions:
▪ Something magical will happen next. What do you think will happen next?

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 The diamond dipper left the little girl’s fingers to shine up in the sky. It shines
every night to remind all little children that there was this little girl who was
brave, kind, and unselfish.
-end-

Ask more comprehension questions after reading the whole story.

▪ What makes the girl brave?
▪ What makes the little girl kind and unselfish?
▪ Which part of the story do you like best?

DAY 3
3. Lesson Activity
Guide the students in identifying the elements of the story using the Story Map.
Viewing any of the suggested videos can help explain the story elements.

Videos on Elements of the Story

Option 1: Plot Mountain! The Plot Diagram Song by Scratch Garden (2015) is a
song that describes the Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and
Resolution. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWHZJZQDSE&t=128s)

Option 2: Elements of the Story Rap by Jedd Bloom (2017) does a rap on
Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Faling Action, and Resolution.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eY-fkyacW0&t=197s)

Option 3: Short Story Elements by Nichole Hess (2014) covers Plot,

Characters, Setting, Conflict, and Theme in animated video.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDmhl-SU5Yk&t=42s)

Have students fill the Story Map.

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D. Making 1. Learners’ Takeaways
Generalizations
Ask students to complete an I CAN statement.
I can ___________________________________.
After doing the activities this week, write one thing you can already do about
reading a story. Below are examples:

I can describe the setting.

I can retell events in the story.
I can predict what will happen next.

2. Reflection on Learning
Have the students complete the following statements:

When reading a story, I really like it when _____________________.

When reading a story, I don’t like it when _____________________.

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IV. EVALUATING LEARNING: FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AND TEACHER’S REFLECTION NOTES TO TEACHERS

A. Evaluating DAY 4
Learning Formative Assessment
“The New Legend of the Dipper” Comic Strip
Have students work in small groups. Instruct them to draw about the events in the
story, “The Legend of Dipper.” The drawings will be used to retell the story but
groups must come up with a different ending. The worksheet can be used as a
guide.

B. Teacher’s Note observations on The teacher may take note of

Remarks any of the following Effective Practices Problems Encountered some observations related to
areas: the effective practices and
problems encountered after
strategies explored utilizing the different strategies,
materials used, learner
materials used engagement and other related
stuff.
learner engagement/
interaction
Teachers may also suggest
others ways to improve the different
activities explored/lesson
exemplar.

C. Teacher’s Reflection guide or prompt can be on: Teacher’s reflection in every

Reflection ▪ principles behind the teaching lesson conducted/ facilitated is
What principles and beliefs informed my lesson? essential and necessary to
Why did I teach the lesson the way I did? improve practice. You may also
▪ students consider this as an input for
What roles did my students play in my lesson? the LAC/Collab sessions.
What did my students learn? How did they learn?
▪ ways forward
What could I have done differently?
What can I explore in the next lesson?