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Poem: Animal Talk Rationale for choice:

The poem Animal talk is chosen because of poet brings a special unlikely event to life. The poem describes about the sound that produce by the animals. This event will attract the students to read this poem because children love animal very much. In addition, the poems structure is more to direct description and minimal use of difficult words.

Activity 1: Puzzle me up Instructions:

The teacher requests the students to group themselves into five groups. The teacher gives out pieces of cards contain pictures and words. Each group has to rearrange the pictures and put together the correct pictures from columns A, B and C Next, each of the groups must cut and paste the pictures a nd words to a cardboard. Then, write a sentence according to the pictures from columns A,B and C. Towards the end, the teacher relates the pictures to the words in the poem back and discusses with the students about the activity.

Rationale for the activity:

The activity is formulated to improve the students organising and listing skills. The students have to organise the poem according to the sounds that produce by the animals. In order to complete this task, the students must have the knowledge the sound that the animals produce. Then, they have to list the information they have to match the pictures that represents the information they have. Through this activity, the students vocabulary is improved when they rewrite the words back inside the activity.

Poem: Animal talk

Activity 2: Climb me up Instructions:

The teacher draws a snake ladder board on a mahjong paper. Then, the teacher asks the students to make a group consists of four people. To start a game, the students must throw a dice first and move according to number on the dice. Answer the questions in each box. If answer is incorrect, miss a turn. The first group to reach home is the winner Towards the end, the teacher discusses with the students about the activity.
Rationale for the activity:

The activity is constructed to insert fun inside learning poetry where a game is inculcated. Snake ladder game is modified to become an activity to make the students to find the answers inside the poem. By answering the questions, the students have the ideas about the poem. The students information transfer skill is enhanced with a challenging activity like this. To conclude, the activity provides a challenging task yet fun to the students.

Story: The Bathing Friends Rationale for choice: The story The Bathing Friends is chosen because this

story has moral values. Moral values play dominant role in moulding the attitude and approaches of children in their life. Therefore, implanting t hese values in the minds of the children is vital and it is easily possible if told through stories interestingly and attractively. In addition, the storys structure is more to direct description and minimal use of difficult words. To conclude, animal characters in these short moral stories can help children learn important lessons of life.

Activity 1: Who am I? Instructions:

The teacher requests the students to group themselves into five groups. The teacher distributes a handout that contains the questions to the students. In order to complete the task, each group have to refer the story given. Then, teachers asked the students to act out the dialogue in front of the class. Finally, the teacher discusses the answers and asks for the students feedback on the activities.

Rationale:

The activity is created to develop the students participation in class. By having grouping in the activity, this move can enhance the students cooperation among each other thus improving their communication skills (interpersonal intelligence) and pronunciation. When the activity combines reading and acting, the students understanding can be reinforced. By acting, the students imagination will develop.

Story: The Bathing Friends. Activity 2: Wardle Instructions:

A handout is given to students where they have to correct the careless spelling mistakes After that, they are required to write a note based on their opinions about this story. When the students finished write the task, the teacher asks the student to re ad out their note in front of the class. The teacher and the students correct any mistakes together.

Rationale for the activity:

The activity is constructed to improve the students vocabulary while in the process of understanding the story thus increases their linguistic intelligence. At the end of the activity, the students have the proper knowledge about spelling and enhance their vocabulary. This activity makes the students to reflect and evaluate their personality hence improves the students intrapersonal intelligence where they have to give their personal response to the story to them and emotional intelligence where they lear n more about their own self.

Justification The activity is focused on initiating discussion inside the classroom. When the students have an activity to do together, they have to converse to each other in order to complete the task. This move can enhance the students cooperation among each other thus improving their communication skills (interpersonal intelligence) and pronunciation. By answering the questions, the students will improve their understanding towards the play. The students thinking skills is enhanced with a challenging activity like this. Through this activity, the students vocabulary is improved when they rewrite the words back inside the activity.

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