THE HINDU SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, TRIPLICANE.

MACRO PLAN FOR CLASS 3 FOR 2019 - 2020

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UNIT: 1
LESSON: Good Morning (Poem)
Month/weeks April / 2
No. of periods: 14
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  The child and nature
 The world around
 Appreciation of beauty in nature
Language items  Nouns
 Antonyms
 Synonyms
Expected learning outcome:  Recites, appreciates, understands & enjoys the poem
 Able to write a short description
 Able to use language items
Suggested activities:  To recite the poem with appropriate actions
 To appreciate, understand & enjoy
 To emphasize on spoken part – proper way of wishing
 To drill of language items: Nouns, antonyms, synonyms
 Underlining the nouns from the passage
 World building game
 To draw pictures of ‘day’ & ‘night’ and to ask the
children to write two words each from each picture
 Write a paragraph on ‘Your favourite thing in nature’
TLM & Resources:  Visuals of morning scene
 Flashcards of nouns, antonyms & synonyms
 Drawings
Value:  Love for nature
 Good Manners

UNIT: 1
LESSON: The Magic Garden (Prose)
Month/weeks JUNE / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme: Recycling waste Folk Tales
Language items  Nouns
 Simple present tense
 Would
Expected learning outcome:  Able to enjoy reading the story & comprehend
 Able to convey a message in writing
 Able to exchange ideas with the peers

Suggested activities:  To read aloud with proper voice modulation

 To do silent reading by children and to ask questions to
test understanding
 To identify and find names of the trees growing in your
school
 Drilling of Simple Present Tense in sentences
 To show flash cards of different colours to children, ask
 them to co-relate these colours with different things and
speak sentences in simple present tense eg. The crow is
black.
 Read & arrange the sequence cards in proper sequence
 Slogan writing on ‘Environment’
 Making a flower scrapbook & labelling the flowers
 To ask them to talk about their favourite flower based
on the given clues and then write about it
 To take a list of words, visit the school garden, encircle
the things that one finds and to write two examples of
each: Insects- Trees-
 Flowers- Birds- Garden tools-
 Speak three sentences giving the names of flowers that
you might like to grow in your garden eg. In my garden I
would like to grow ………..
 Use the letter in ‘PLAYGROUND‘ to make new words
Note- These lessons may be integrated & correlated with
― The Plant Fairy- Looking Around class 3
TLM & Resources:  Trees in the school compound
 Flash words
 Sequence cards
 Visuals of flowers
 Clues written on flash cards
 Pictures of related to each word
 Pictures of flowers
 Alphabet cards
Value:  Respect for the environment
 Care for plants

UNIT: 2
LESSON: Bird Talk (Poem)
Month/weeks JUNE / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Birds
 Differences & disabilities in nature
Language items  Use of contractions – don‘t, aren‘t
Expected learning outcome:  Recites, understands, appreciates & enjoys the poem
 Able to express thoughts freely
 Able to carry out a brief conversation seeking/ giving
information
Suggested activities:  Read and reread the poem aloud laying stress on certain
words and phrases
 Use of don‘t & aren‘t in sentences
 To go for nature walk, look at the birds and express
thoughts and feelings freely
 Write a paragraph on ‘Birds’ based on
Project – Bird Watching
 Write sentences on what birds can/cannot do
 Discuss how birds are different from us. Talk how
people can also be different from each other with special
reference to children with special needs
 Role play of two elephants talking about people
 Quiz among small groups
TLM & Resources:  Related poems on birds
 Visuals/picture books on birds from class library,
 Masks of elephant and other animals
 Pictures of birds, Visuals Internet
Value: Love for other living things such as birds and animals

UNIT: 2
LESSON: Nina And Baby Sparrow (Prose)
Month/weeks JUNE / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:
Language items  Framing of questions starting with ‘Can’
 Adjectives
Expected learning outcome:  Reads the story , understands & enjoys
 Reads aloud with proper voice modulation
 Uses ‘Can’ and ‘adjectives’ in meaningful sentences
Suggested activities:  To narrate the story with the aid of picture sequence
cards/ puppets, children to listen and answer the
Multiple Choice Questions
 Children to frame questions based on the given answers
using ‘Can’
 To complete the words using the right pair of letters (eg
spa_ _ ow)
 To make a word with four letter words
 To look at the visuals and write describing words for
them (adjectives)

TLM & Resources:  Picture sequence cards, puppets
 Books from class library
 Answers on flashcards
 Visuals
Value:  Learns to feel empathy for the suffering

UNIT: 3
LESSON: Little by Little (Poem)
Month/weeks JULY / 4
No. of periods: 28
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Plants, trees, vegetables
 Growth
 The importance of trees and plants in our lives
Language items  Nouns- Singular & Plural Forms)
 Adverbs
 Adjective
Expected learning outcome:  Enjoys reciting the poems with rhyme and rhythm
 Can use nouns, adjectives and adverbs in proper
context
 Can take part in group discussion and able to express
ideas in writing
Suggested activities:  Listen & then recite the poem *Recite similar poems
like‘ In the heart of a seed‘
 Germinate a seed, list the things & conditions needed
for germination/ growth of a plant
 Drilling of nouns in singular & Plural forms, adverb &
adjective in proper context
 Write words ending with ‘ly’ Fill in the blanks with the
correct describing words
A _____ acorn
The ____ branches
A ______ shoot
 The _____ oak
The _____ bed
[tiny mossy slender little mighty]
 Class discussion on ‘Importance of plants’ & to ask
children to write a paragraph on it
TLM & Resources:  Poems on plants
 Library
 Germinating seeds
 Related visuals
 Pictures
 Objects obtained from plants
Value:  Care of plants

UNIT: 3
LESSON: The Enormous Turnip (Story)
Month/weeks JULY / 4
No. of periods: 28
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme: Investigating the unknown
Surprise and curiosity
 Overcoming fears by scientific analysis
Language items  Noun – opposite, singular plural
 Tense (Simple Present & Simple Past)
Expected learning outcome:  Takes part in dramatization
 Enjoys reading the lesson and able to comprehend
 Able to make opposites
 Able to write paragraphs on a given topic using Simple
Present & Simple Past
 Can exchange ideas with peers
Suggested activities:  Children to read the story aloud with correct
pronunciation and rise and fall of the voice
 Children to do silent reading and teachers to ask
questions to test their understanding
 Dramatization of the story
 Drilling of new words in proper context
 Drilling of the language items like nouns & Simple
present/ Simple past
 Find the opposite words from the story
 Games on singular/plural
 Colour the present tense red & past tense green
 Show a visual of children playing in a garden, and ask
questions and encourage them to answer in present
continuous form
 Paragraph on ‘The vegetable I like the most’/ I should
eat vegetables because ……
 Write the name of the vegetables we get in summer and
in winter
 Note-The lesson be integrated & correlated with ―The
story of Food‖- Looking Around class 3
TLM & Resources:  Picture panorama
 Class library books & visuals
 Flashcards
 Visuals
 Vegetables brought by the students
 Chart of vegetables
Value:  Healthy Food
 Sharing & working together
UNIT: 4
LESSON: Sea Song (A Poem)
Month/weeks JULY / 4
No. of periods: 28
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Water, Sea and Sounds
 The importance of water in our lives
 Life in the Sea
Language items Nouns
Expected learning outcome:  Able to recite and enjoy the poem, and appreciate the
rhythm & sound
 Able to write a short composition based on picture
Suggested activities:  Teachers to recite the poem followed by children
 Children to observe the visuals of beaches & speak
about them
 Drilling of language item – noun – opposite words
 Children to underline the nouns (naming words) in the
given sentences
 Children to play games with rhyming words and
opposites
 To make a list of ‘The sources of water’
 To mix a number of words (things) found in the sea/on
the sea shore and not found, & to write these words
separately
 Odd Man out – to call out 3 words and children to
identify the odd words
 Children to add one letter to make new words, for
example O – ON – SON – SONG
 Picture composition
 Model of aquarium
TLM & Resources:  Visuals of beaches from calendars/
newspaper/periodicals collected by the children
 Visuals on ‘Sources of Water’ & ‘Things found in the
sea/on the sea shore’
 Flashcards
Value:  Save water and save life

UNIT: 4
LESSON: A little Fish Story (Story)
Month/weeks AUGUST / 4
No. of periods: 28
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme: 
Language items  collective nouns
 Past form
 Degree of comparison - adjective
Expected learning outcome:  Can read aloud with proper pronunciation, understand
& enjoy
 Able to use the given language items in proper context
in a paragraph
 Able to convey message through writing
Suggested activities:  Children to read out the story aloud with expressions &
gestures
 Children to do silent reading followed by questions to
test their understanding
 CLOZE test (a story with every 7th word missing and
children to fill up the missing words to complete the
 story)
 Children to match the words with their meanings
 Drilling of language items – collective nouns, past forms
of verbs, adjectives
 Team game based on collective nouns
 To find the past forms of the given words from the story
 To fill in the blanks with the correct degree of
comparison followed by the production of degree of
comparison in a meaningful paragraph
 A passage with some misspelt words – to encircle the
wrong words & re-write the passage using correct
spelling
 Dramatization Disaster management in case of
accident/fire/earthquake/floods & talks about it
 Discussion on different kinds of fish in the sea & other
water animals, and their life underwater
 Guided writing - Water pollution & its harmful effects
on sea life
TLM & Resources:  Visuals of sea beach
 Passage for CLOZE test from any story book
 Matching cards
 Flashcards
 Library
 Internet
 Visuals on life under water
 Clue words related to the topic
Value:  Self-awareness (Strength, Weakness),
 Safety

UNIT: 5
LESSON: The Balloon Man (Poem)
Month/weeks AUGUST / 4
No. of periods: 28
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Sky, colours, insects
 Appreciation of natural beauty
Language items  Opposites
Expected learning outcome:  Able to read, recite & enjoy the poem
 Able to write simple sentences in present tense
Suggested activities:  Children to recite the poem with rhythm and rhyme
 To recite rhymes about colours
 To fill the balloons with different colours, paste them on
a sheet of paper, cut and make a bunch, attach strings
of different colours, and speak a few sentences on
what you did
 To find out the colours in the maze by reading the
letters vertically & horizontally
 To make a list of things which fly
 To draw a rainbow & name the colours
 To identify the words from the jumbled letters
 To change each word into a colour name (add or change
a letter) eg. Add a letter – ink – pink;
 To change two letters – turtle - purple
 Guessing game- to speak out one word for these
sentences, one who sells milk, brings letter, washes
clothes etc.
 Role play of people of different occupations
 Drilling of new words from the poem in meaningful
 sentences
 Drilling of language item – opposites, finding out the
opposites from the poem
 Visuals presentation of different weather sunny, windy,
cold etc and write two sentences on each
TLM & Resources:  Balloons of different colours
 Worksheet – colouring balloons (RED BLUE)
 Word puzzle/maze
 Drawings
 Worksheet
 Flashcards
 Visuals and Internet resources
 Picture
 Sequence cards/word cards
Value:  Respect for people in different occupations

UNIT: 5
LESSON: The yellow Butterfly (Story)
Month/weeks AUGUST / 4
No. of periods: 28
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:
Language items  Preposition
Expected learning outcome:  Able to read the story with proper pronunciation and
pause, and to comprehend it
 Able to use given prepositions in verbal as well as
written communication
 Able to do picture composition
Suggested activities:  Children to read the story aloud with correct
pronunciation and pause
 Children to do silent reading followed by questions to
test their understanding
 To match answers with questions
 Drilling of language item – Preposition used in the story
and write a paragraph using those prepositions
 Paper folding activity – Children to make a butterfly
from paper, and teachers to Put the paper butterfly in
different positions (on a flower, in a box etc.) asking
questions, ―’Where is the butterfly?’
 To make two words from one word for e.g. butterfly –
butter + fly
 To observe the picture of a butterfly and talk about its
different body parts
 To arrange the jumbled sentences in proper sequence
 To write a few sentences on ―If I were a butterfly….‖
TLM & Resources:  Picture of a butterfly
 Visuals on butterflies
Value:  Appreciate the right to freedom of every living thing

UNIT: 6
LESSON: Trains (Poem)
Month/weeks SEPTEMBER / 2
No. of periods: 14
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Land & land forms
 Travel
Language items  Simple present tense
Expected learning outcome:  Can recite the poem with proper intonation
 Able to narrate and write his/her experiences of any
scene
Suggested activities:  Children to recite the poem with proper intonation
 Children to recite other poems related to various means
of transport
 Drilling of Language item – Simple present tense in
proper context
 To enact a scene from a railway station (have characters
like - porters, Vendors, passengers, etc. ) and write a
small paragraph on it using simple present tense
 Word train – Children to draw bogies of train and write
a word and to let them write words starting with the
end letter of the previous word
 To complete the statements from the jumbled words.
E.g. –trains are a means of – PTORRANST (TRANSPORT)
etc. and encircle the correct spelling
 Drilling of new words in proper context
 Children to write a few sentences about an interesting
journey by using the clue words
TLM & Resources:  Pictures of means of transport
 Visual of a railway station
 Word train
 Worksheet
 Word list
 Clue words related to the topic
 A Visit to a Railway Station
Value: Respecting people who help us in different fields of life

UNIT: 6
LESSON: The Story of the Road (Prose)
Month/weeks SEPTEMBER /2
No. of periods: 14
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:
Language items  Can/cannot,
 Punctuation
Expected learning outcome:  Able to read and understand the story
 Able to write a short composition based on picture
 Can use proper punctuation marks
 Able to write a paragraph expressing ability using
can/cannot
Suggested activities:  Children to read aloud with proper pronunciation &
pause
 Children to do silent reading followed by question-
answer activity to test their comprehension
 Dramatization of the story
 To rewrite the jumble sentences to learn about road
safety eg. play/on/never/road/the
 Picture composition
 Drilling of the use of can/cannot followed by the
production of the same in a paragraph
 Drilling of language item – Punctuation followed by
punctuating a passage
 Match the sounds with the names
 Singing & dancing to rhythmic music/musical
instrument
 Work sheets of road signs (Name these signs) e.g. U
 Turn, No Parking, Zebra-Crossing, Traffic light, Speed
breaks, Name the road signs
 Note- This lesson may be integrated with ―From here to
there‖, Looking Around- class 3
TLM & Resources:  MCQ
 Picture of a road scene
 Musical CD/cassettes
 Road symbols
Value:  Safety habits

UNIT: 7
LESSON: Puppy and I (Poem)
Month/weeks OCTOBER / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme: Pets, animal homes and animal friends
The importance of animals in our lives
Language items  Noun
 Simple Present tense
Expected learning outcome:  Able to recite, understand and appreciate the poem
 Able to pen ideas of importance of animals in our lives
using different forms of Simple Present
Suggested activities:  To recite the poem with proper rhyme and rhythm
 To enact the poem as a conversation amongst different
characters named in the poem
 To match the name of the animals with its young ones
& sound
 To talks about their experiences with their pets
 To identify the different breed of dogs from the pictures
 Drilling of Simple Present tense
 Work in pairs— Use the words given in the box and
speak out and write e.g. Cow— domestic --- A cow is a
domestic animal.
 To write a few lines on ‘My Pet’/’A pet you wish to have’
TLM & Resources:  Any movie on animals
 Picture cards of animals & their young ones
 Pictures/visual s of different breeds of dogs
Value:  Care for pets and other animals

UNIT: 7
LESSON: Little Tiger, Big Tiger (Prose)
Month/weeks OCTOBER / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:
Language items  Simple past tense
 Question word
Expected learning outcome:  Able to read and understand the story
 Can write a short description of the animal
 Can carry out a brief conversation seeking/giving
information on dwindling number of tigers.
Suggested activities:  Children to read the story aloud with proper
pronunciation and pause
 Children to do silent reading followed by question-
answer activity to test their understanding
 To use cut outs/ pictures cards/ visuals to show
pictures of young ones & homes of animals
  Speak a few lines on ― Save the Tiger‖
 Children to narrate a story about animals.
 Drilling of the use of Simple Past tense in proper
context followed by the production of the language item
in a paragraph
 Drilling of Question words – why, who, what verbally
 To add –ed to make past tense of the given action words
 To make questions from the story
 To use spell cards, blend cards to learn spellings
 To fill up one missing letter to make a correct word
 To read the clue & solve the puzzle on animals
 Write a paragraph on ‘Our national animal’
TLM & Resources:  Visual cards
 Cut outs/ visuals
 Posters from Project Tiger
 Library
 Flashcards
 Flashcards of question words
 Spell cards
 Crossword puzzles
Value:  Value of secure love and care of parents

UNIT: 8
LESSON: ‘What‘s in the Mail Box?’ (Poem)
Month/weeks NOVEMBER / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Communication & letter writing
 Games & play
Language items 
Expected learning outcome:  Able to recite with proper intonation and understanding
 Able to write an informal letter
 To take part in role play
Suggested activities:  To recite the poem individually or in groups with proper
intonation and action
 To identify the rhyming words with the help of rhyming
cards.
 To enact the journey of a letter (Letter --- post box –
mail-man – post office – postman – letterbox of a house)
and frame sentences to tell about the journey of the
letter
 To read & put the cards (telephone, telegram, aero plane
etc.) in proper box labelled TRANSPORT/COM
MUNICATION
 Drilling of the use of always/never/though in a
meaningful context
 Role play of people of different professions
 Guided letter writing
 Note- May be correlated with ― Here comes a letter,
Looking Around, class 3
TLM & Resources:  Rhyming cards
 Model of a post box, letter box, pictures, postage
materials
 Flashcards
 Pictures/visuals
 Postcard
Value:  Respect for all professions
 Dignity of labour
UNIT: 8
LESSON: My Silly Sister (Prose)
Month/weeks NOVEMBER / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme: 
Language items  Nouns – numbers
 Suffix
 Punctuation
Expected learning outcome:  Able to read and understand the story
 Able to narrate his/her experiences/ incidents
 Able to express his/her ideas/thoughts in writing
Suggested activities:  Children to read the story aloud with proper
pronunciation and pause
 Children to do silent reading followed by question-
answer activity to test their understanding
 Children to listen to a story by Rabindranath Tagore &
answer the MCQ
 To speak about their experiences with their siblings.
 Drilling of Language item
 Noun -numbers
 Suffix
 Punctuation
 To use clues to change the number from one to many
e.gg One goose – change oo to ee – many geese
 Children to drill the Use of suffix like ‘ful’, ‘ly’, ‘ish’ in
the given words
e.g. beauty +ful =beautiful
soft + ly =softly
green + ish = greenish etc.
 Children to Punctuate the given passage
 Children to write a paragraph on their father/mother
mentioning how they help at home
TLM & Resources:  Books from class library
 Photographs of family members
 Worksheet
Value:  Importance of the role of family members
 Self-reliance

UNIT: 9
LESSON: Don‘t Tell (Poem)
Month/weeks DECEMBER / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Growing up, expressing emotions & feelings
Language items  Contractions – don‘t, I‘m, I‘ll, can‘t, it‘s etc
 expressing future
Expected learning outcome:  Able to recite the poem with rhythm and rhyme,
comprehend it
 Can share experiences with friends
Suggested activities:  Children to recite the poem with proper intonation
 Drilling of language item – contraction in proper context
and match the contractions with its full forms
 Drilling of sentences expressing future time, and then
tell & write about their ambition- what they want to
become/do when they will grow up
  To write down the rhyming words from the poems
 Using the letters of the given words make new
(minimum three- lettered) words
 Talk about a few things you would love to do but your
elders won‘t let you do
 Write a few sentences on ―When I grow up, I want to
…..‖
TLM & Resources:  Flashcards
 Word list
Value:  Love, cooperation and respect for differently- abled
people

UNIT: 9
LESSON: He‘s my brother (Prose)
Month/weeks DECEMBER
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:
Language items  Noun (opposites)
 Verbs (action words)
Expected learning outcome:  Able to read and comprehend the story
 Able to exchange ideas/feeling s through sign language
 Can express own thoughts about the given topic in
writing
Suggested activities:  Children to read aloud with proper pronunciation and
pause
 Children to do silent reading followed by question -
answer activity to test their understanding
 Drilling of Language items in proper context
i) Noun (opposites
ii)verbs (action words)
 Find the opposite words from the story
 To change the words into its opposite words
 To speak in sign language and others to identify the
action e.g. -Sing, read, win etc
TLM & Resources:  Sequence cards
 Flashcards
Value:  Interpersonal relationship

UNIT: 10
LESSON: How creatures move (Poem)
Month/weeks JANUARY / 3
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme:  Animals – Animal habitat
 Different regions like desert areas, cold mountains,
hot jungles etc
Language items  Verbs (doing words)
Expected learning outcome:  Able to recite the poem and understand the different
types of movements
 Can exchange ideas with peers on the given topic
Suggested activities:  Children to read the poem aloud laying stress on action
words
 Drilling of doing words
 To talk about, ―What do you do when you are bored?
 Enacting the movements of animals /birds
 Match the animals with their movements
 To arrange movement words from slow to fast
 To make pairs of rhyming words from the poem
 To encircle the silent letter of the words e.g. Walk,
know, Knife, calm etc
 Children to write a few sentences on ― I feel happy
when….‖
TLM & Resources:  Clue chart
 Worksheet
 Movement words
 Worksheet
Value:  Love for animals

UNIT: 10
LESSON: The Ship of the Desert (Prose)
Month/weeks JANUARY
No. of periods: 21
Competency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Theme: 
Language items  Has/ Have
 Questions
Expected learning outcome:  Able to read the story and understand
 Able to take part in dramatization
 Can carry out conversation giving information
 Can write composition s based on pictures using
has/have
Suggested activities:  Children read aloud with proper pronunciation and
pause
 Children to do silent reading followed by question-
answer activity to test their comprehension
 To read a story on animals & answer the MCQ
 Dramatization of the lesson in pairs
 Arrange the dialogues sequence wise
 Writes the features of camel which help it to survive in
desert *Quiz on animals
 Drilling of Language item: Has/ Have and production of
the same in a paragraph
 To make questions based on animals
 To see the pictures and write a story from the given
clues
 To talk about different regions like desert, mountains,
jungle and about the respective flora and fauna
TLM & Resources:  Books from class library
 Mask of camel & lion
 Sequence cards
 Visuals of camels
 Worksheet
 Visuals of different regions
Value: 

UNIT:
LESSON: Revision
Month/weeks March
No. of periods: Remaining periods