English Lesson Plan: Analyzing 'Leave Taking' - Year 2 Students

This assignment presents a detailed lesson plan designed for Year 2 students, centered around the picture book 'Leave Taking' by Lorraine Marwood. The lesson aims to enhance students' comprehension and analytical skills through character analysis, interpretation of literary devices such as imagery, simile, and onomatopoeia, and understanding of grammatical concepts. The plan emphasizes the emotional connection to the story, particularly Toby's grief, and encourages students to relate the character's experiences to other texts. The lesson incorporates various resources like classroom posters, charts for literary devices and grammar, and phoneme charts to facilitate effective learning. The teaching steps include an introduction to engage students, a main body detailing the teaching methods, extension/support activities, and a conclusion with key questions to assess understanding. The assessment focuses on the learning outcomes, evaluating students' ability to analyze the character, identify literary devices, and understand the emotional depth of the story. This lesson plan aligns with the curriculum, aiming to develop students' understanding of challenges, emotions, and literary techniques.

Lesson Plan for English
Year level: 2
Lesson title: Leave Taking
Curriculum Link: (List content description and ACARA code)
Intended Learning. By the end of this lesson students will be able to:
Analyse the character of the story, and describe their actions. They will also be able to
interpret the literary devices like the imagery, simile and onomatopoeia in the text. The
grammar of the text should also be clear to them for instance the noun, pronoun, tenses
and interaction skills possible with the language. The children will most importantly be able
to relate the character Toby and feel his grief. They would also be able to compare the
characters with other similar texts and have a perspective on the topic. By the end of the
lesson, they will learn a story which will help them to understand the presence of various
challenges and how to deal with it, just the way Toby does when his sister died. The
students will also be able to know the extreme condition of emotions that one has to face in
a lifetime – grief, love, belongingness and other.
Mode(s)
Materials and resources:
The materials and resources utilised for this unit is the picture book Leave Taking by
Lorraine Marwood. Other than that, classroom posters for the picture book Taking Leave
should be brought to class. A chart will also be helpful where the various literary devices will
be discussed with examples. Another chart focusing on the grammar that will be taught in
the classroom should be discussed. Phoneme charts would also be helpful which will help
the students to learn the words effectively.
Lesson Steps
Intro
 Teaching students of level 2 has to be strategically carved so that it enables the
young learners to comprehend the picture book Leave Taking easily. As a teacher I
would try to break down the lesson in simple steps so that the children find it
enjoyable and interesting to read.
Main body
 (Lesson plan: How I will teach in the class)
Extension/support activity:
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Conclusion

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Key Questions to Ask
 Why is Toby camping by himself on the farm? Why does he say that dark shadows
hide the everyday world outside my tent?
 Construct a character profile of Leah by taking evi8dences from the picture book to
support your argument.
 Why is the Toby’s family moving away from the farmhouse?
 Discuss the imagery and rhythm made by Toby while describing the sound of the
milk machine.
 Describe the role Triggers play in Toby’s life.
Assessment
 (The learning outcome from the lesson planned)