Detailed Lesson Plan

For Grade 8

I. Objectives
a. Identify the characteristics of literary text and informational text
b. Compare and contrast a literary and an informational text about the same topic
c. Participate actively on the given task

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Literary Text vs Informational Text
Reference/s: Grade 8 E - module for English pg. 461 to 462.
https://neopode.net/literary-text/
https://www.pdesas.org/module/content/resources/18244/view.ashx

Material/s: Smart TV, Laptop, Chalk

Learning Procedure:

Approach: Integrative Approach

Strategy: Scaffold-Knowledge Integration

Method: The 4 As Activity

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

A. Routinary Activities
1. Prayer
“Let us all stand and _____ kindly lead the “Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s
prayer.” love, commits me here. Ever this day, be at my side,
2. Greeting to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.”
“Good morning class!”
3. Classroom Management “Good morning, Sir!”
“Okay, before you sit down please pick up all
of the pieces of trash around arrange the
alignment of chairs and sit properly.”

4. Checking of Attendance “I’m glad to say that there are no absentees for today
“Class monitor, are there any absentees for ma’am!”
“Class
today?”monitor, are there any absentees for
today?”
5. Review of the previous lesson “Sir, our topic yesterday is all about ___________.
“Before we start our discussion, what was our
previous lesson yesterday?”

B. Lesson Proper

Activity

“Before we proceed to our lesson, lets us have

an activity this activity is entitled GUESS MY
NAME. I will show you some pictures and all you
need to do is to identify their name. Is that clear?”

1. 3. 1. Maleficent
2. Mike Enriquez
3. Garfield
4. Karen Davila
2. 4.

Analysis

“Did you enjoy our game?”

 “We observe that the pictures shown at the T.V are
“What have you observed in our activity?” examples of a main character in a movie and some are
famous Filipino newscasters.”
“Okay, very good!”

“Where can we find them?”

Discussion
A literary text is about a story of people, animals, or
“But before we proceed to our lesson do you events that is made up by an author while
have any idea about literary text and Informational Text is a book or any resource material
informational text?” that gives information or facts about real people,
things, or events.

“Very Good!

“Literary text is one that is part of the genres of

literature and writing known as artistic. In a
literary text, the author has complete freedom to
write what he/she wants.”

“The function of literary text is not to inform, but

to focus on the message that is intended to
convey.

“A literary text does not have to stick to reality,

usually based on fictional worlds telling imaginary
events, ideas, arguments, etc.”

Examples:

1. Poem
2. Essay
3. Novels
4. Songs
5. Fables
6. Legends
7. Myths
8. Fairy tales

Informational text - any resource material that

gives information or facts about real people,
things, or events.

“The function of an informative text is to

communicate a specific message to its readers.”

Examples:

1. Educational blog
2. News paper
3. Tabloids
4. Magazines
5. Autobiography/ Biography
6. Dictionary
7. Encyclopedia
8. Recipe books

Characteristic of literary text and

informational text

Literary (Fiction) Text: A story about people,

animals, or events that is made up by an author.
Characters: The people or animals in a story.
Setting: The time and place, or when and where,
a story happens.
Plot: The sequence of events in a story,
 including a problem and a solution.
Characteristics: Features or qualities that help
identify something.

Informational (Nonfiction) Text: A book or any

resource material that gives information or facts
about real people, things, or events.
Text Features: Any visual clues on a page of
text that offer additional information to guide the
reader’s understanding.
Captions: Words or sentences that give
information about a photograph.
Table of Contents: A list of chapter titles and the
page numbers on which they begin. A table of
contents is located at the beginning of a book.
Glossary: List of words in a book and their
meanings.

“Do you have any question or clarification “None, Sir!”

regarding with our discussion.”

“Did you understand it?” “Yes,Sir!”

Abstraction

1. What is a literary text?
2. What is an informational text?
“Literary text is one of the genres of literature and
writing known as artistic. In literary text, the author has
complete freedom to write what he/she wants.”
“Informational text is a book that gives information or
facts about real people, things, or events.”

3. What is the difference between function of “The function of literary text is not to inform, but to
literary text and informative text? focus on the message intended by the author while
informative text is about communicating and giving
facts to its readers.”
4. What are the similarities and differences of a “The similarities are they are both for reading, both can
literary and informational text? be read for leisure time. Their difference is that one is
for information and one is based from fiction.”

Application

“Class, I think everybody already knows our topic

for today, let us have an activity.”

Group 1: Perform news casting about some

current issues in the Philippines
Group 2: Present a short skit about your favorite
movie or story.
Group 3: Make an educational vlog about
environment
Group 4: Perform a mannequin challenge about
your favorite scene in a movie or story

“You will be graded according to this criteria:”

Content & Organization of Topic: 10 points

Creativity & Presentation of Idea: 5 points
Instilling Values to Students: 5 points
TOTAL: 20 points

“You have 15 minutes to do and present your

task.”

“Start doing your work silently.”

C. Evaluation

“For our last activity, _____, kindly read the

directions.”

Directions: Identify if the following is a literary text or

informational text. Write LT if it is a literary text and IT
if it is an informational text.

_____________1. Magazines 1. IT
_____________2. On The Three Evils 2. LT
_____________3. Newspaper 3. IT
_____________4. Tabloids 4. IT
_____________5. Encyclopedia 5. IT
_____________6. Ramayana 6. LT
_____________7. Bi-ag ni Lam-ang 7. LT
_____________8. Recipe books. 8. IT
_____________9. Dictionary 9. IT
_____________10. Telephone Conversation. 10. LT

D. Assignment

Have an advance reading about cohesive

devices.

“That would be all for today. Good bye class.”

Prepared by: Checked by:

Jonathan Clarke D. Bañares Ms. Lowie M. Santarin
Student Teacher Cooperating Teacher