A Detailed Lesson Plan in Reading

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
a. enumerate the different factors affecting reading;
b. distinguish the different terms related to the factors affecting reading and;
c. appreciate reading and the factors affecting it.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Factors Affecting Reading
References: Skill Builders for Efficient Reading by Evelyn Salazar
Reading Development and its factors
(http://ihandysuminadangupon.wordpress.com/2015...)
Materials: Visual Aids/Cartolina

III. Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Students Activity
A. Procedure
Good morning class! Good morning Ma’am
Let us pray first… (One student will lead the prayer)
(Checking of attendance) (The president will tell the absentees)

So, how’s your day? Is it good so far? Yes Ma’am!

That’s good to know.
Ok, before introducing the topic, I would (Students will sing the song together with the
like you to introduce yourselves using the teacher)
HAPPY NAME SONG.
Yes Ma’am
B. Motivation
We discussed before about the importance
of reading, right?

I would like you to group yourselves (Students’ will count 1-5 and group themselves)
according to the number assigned to you.
(Students will begin their task)
I have 5 words with jumbled letters, I want
every group to arrange it and whoever
finish the task first will be given extra
points.
1. Linguistic
(After the task) 2. Intellectual
What are the words that your group 3. Physiological
formed? 4. Psychological
5. Sociological
Very Good!
 C. Lesson Proper
Class, those words are the “Factors Affecting
Reading.” Factors Affecting Reading, Ma’am.
What are those words again?

Ok, Let’s define Linguistic first. It is related to

language or the study of language and of the
language work.
Yes Ma’am.
When we hear the word Linguistic, the first
word that must be in our mind is language. Is
that clear?
(Students will share his/her ideas)
Next one is intellectual. Any idea about the
word intellectual?

Ok, very good! Intellectual is the ability to think

in a logical way. When we say logical we are
able to reason out.
Yes Ma’am.
Another thing is that, we have this serious
study or thought or simply means being smart.
Ok?
Things that has lives.
Then, we have here physiological. From the
word physical. This is a branch of science that
deals with the ways that living things function.
By the way, who are the living things?

Very good!

Another one is, Psychological. It is a study of

the mind. It is how we react or what is our
behaviour or attitude.
Yes Ma’am
Then, Sociological which are related to or
directed to social needs or problems. Things
that are around us. Ok?

Class, to be able to understand more the

different factors affecting reading. There are
words or terms related to them.

For instance, we have here physiological or

physical. The related words are visual and
auditory. (Student will raised their hand and answer)
Can anybody give his/her idea about visual? Visual is related to the things that we can see.

Related to the things that we can hear.

Exactly! How about auditory?

Excellent!
(Student will make a guess)
And also we have here intellectual. As I said a
while ago it is you being smart. When we are Correct answer is, MEMORY.
smart, we’re talking about how sharp is your?
(Student will share their idea about it.)
Yes, your memory and also the word content
here is related. What is content for you class,
anyone?

Very good! Next, psychological. Words related

here are emotions, attitude and interest.
Yes Ma’am
When you are reading a book, do you
encounter yourselves being angry, happy, or
even crying depending on what we are
reading?

Of course we all are. (Student will share the books they are interested
in to)
Can anyone share what kind of books are they
interested to?

Yes, Very good! (Student will give their idea)

(Students expected answer are: teacher, friends,
Let’s move on now to Sociological. When we classmates and etc.)
are talking about sociological we have here
family, society and environment. What else?

Ok! Very good! And the last one is Linguistic

we have here, vocabulary or unfamiliar words.
Sentence, letter recognition and sound-symbol
relationship. “Sentence are group of words that expresses a
statement, question, command or wish.”
Question class, what are sentence again?

Exactly! It is also a group of words that

expresses a complete thoughts or ideas.
 While the letter recognition is simply Yes Ma’am.
recognizing the letter or simply the different
alphabet. Do you understand class?
And the sound-symbol relationship talks about
how a certain symbol sounds like. For
example, we have here the long and short “o”
sound.

symbol sound word

ŏ /ɒ/ short pole (Student will raised their hands and try to give
ō /oʊ/ long pool another example)

Can you give another example?

Very good!

I expected now that you are able to understand

the different factors affecting reading and the
words related to it. So here’s a short exercise.

D. Application
Two representatives of boys and so with the
girls. One will command and the other one do
the action. And the one who will do the action
is wearing a blindfold.
Direction: Match the correct factors in the
words related to it. Answer:

1. Family 1. Sociological
2. Memory 2. Intellectual
3. Vocabulary 3. Linguistic
4. Emotion 4. Psychological
5. Auditory/Visual 5. Physical/Physiological

IV. Generalization
There are five factors affecting reading and they have these related words that is attached to them,
which are:
1. Sociological (family, society and environment)
2. Intellectual (memory and content)
3. Physiological (visual and auditory)
4. Psychological (emotion, attitude and interest)
5. Linguistic (vocabulary, sentence, letter recognition, and sound-symbol relationship)
V. Evaluation
Direction: Identify which factors affecting reading is being described in the following situation.
1. My favourite story is about adventure. (Psychological)
2. The pre-schoolers are combining the sounds of the letters. (Linguistic)
3. Lanie and her friends went to the library. (Sociological)
4. I don’t like to read when I’m sad. (Psychological)
5. The children will have spelling quiz tomorrow. (Linguistic)
6. The blackboard is far from you and you can’t see the writings clearly. (Physiological)
7. My mother helps me to become a better reader. (Sociological)
8. I analyse every scene of the story. (Intellectual)
9. You are in the middle of the class and outside was very noisy. (Physiological)
10. Karen knows all the characters in the novel “Hunger Games”. (Intellectual)

VI. Assignment
Give at least 3 situations in each factor affecting reading.

Prepared by:
Poleen Kyle R. dela Cruz
BSE-English