ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIMARY 2 FIRST TERM LESSON PLAN SCHEME OF WORK
Week: One
Class: Primary Two
Topic: phonemic awareness I
Behavioural objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to:
- Learn sounds through songs.
- Repeat sounds they hear.
Instructional material/Reference material: wall chart showing the rhymes, flash card showing the key words in the songs, approved work book.
Building Background /connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with the pronunciation of sounds.
Content:
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of words.
The levels of phonological awareness are, from simplest to most complex: syllables, onset-rime, and phonemes. Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words, e.g car as in /a:/, beat as in /I:/.
Evaluation:
Read the following. Pease porridge hot
Pease porridge cold
Pease porridge in the pot
Nine days old
Some like it hot
Some like it cold
Some like it in the pot Nine days old
Which words in Activity poem rhyme with got and told?
Week: Two
Class: Primary Two
Topic: phonemic awareness Il
Behavioural objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to:
- Produce the vowel sounds correctly.
- Pronounce words correctly.
- Use a combination of sounds to produce words.
Instructional material/Reference material: Sounds chart and flash cards, wall chart containing words with /a/, /s/, approved course book.
Building Background /connection to prior knowledge: pupils have learnt about the pronunciation of sounds learning with songs.
Content:
/a/ /a:/ /s/
Fat Car sat
Hat Bar sap
Evaluation: The teacher asked questions on what has been taught.
- Pronounce the sounds in isolation.
- Pronounce words that contain the sounds.
- Make a simple sentence with given words containing the sounds.
Week: Three
Class: Primary Two
Topic: Phonemics I
Behavioural objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to:
- pronounce consonant sounds in isolation, in words and in sentences correctly.
- differentiate between words in each pair in isolation and in sentence context.
- produce consonant clusters correctly.
Instructional material/Reference material: Pictures of an object, flashcard, flannel board, wall chart and coursebook.
Building Background /connection to prior knowledge: pupils have learnt about the Production of vowel sounds correctly and pronounce words correctly using a combination of sounds to produce words.
Content: Consonant sounds in isolation and cluster
Consonant sounds in isolation
- /b/- bed
- /d/- dog
Consonant clusters
/bl/- blade
/br/- bread
/fr/- frog
/fl/- flood
Examples: (a) l ate bread this morning (b) This blade is very sharp (c) The frogs live in water.
Evaluation: The teacher asked questions on what has been taught.
- Pronounce sounds in isolation, words and sentence correctly?
- Differentiate between sounds in pairs of words correctly?
Week: Four
Class: Primary Two
Topic: phonemics Il
Behavioural objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to:
- identify mono and bi-syllabic word.
- read multi-syllabic words using prefixes, suffixes and unknown words parts.
- apply basic syllabication rules.
- use structural analysis to decode words.
Instructional material/Reference material: Teacher made words and sentences, words in flashcard.
Building Background /connection to prior knowledge: pupils have learnt about consonant sounds in isolation and cluster and how to use them in sentence.
Content: Mono-syllabic, bi-syllabic, multi-syllabic (words).
Mono-syllabic words- go, it, to
Bi-syllabic words- s/it, bi/g, pi/g
Multi-syllabic words- um/bre/lla, di/a/mond.
Evaluation: The teacher asked questions on what has been taught.
- Pronounce correct words?
- Read the sentence correctly?
- Decode words using structural analysis.
Week: Five
Class: Primary Two
Topic: Fluency
Behavioural objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to :
- Read different kinds of text with fluency and confidence.
Instructional material/Reference material: chalkboard, cardboard, children text, pictures and drawing, text with illustration and chart.
Building Background /connection to prior knowledge: pupils have learnt about mono , bi and multi- syllabic words.
Content: Fluency
The quality of being fluent in a language; a person’s command of a particular language.
Evaluation: The teacher asked questions on what has been taught.
- Given text and recall information in them.
Week: Six
Class: Primary Two
Topic: Fluency
Behavioural objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to read class appropriate passages: – accurately
- with expression
- with appropriate speed.
Instructional material/Reference material: A comprehension passage (HIV/AIDS) and drug abuse, chart pictures to the passages.
Building Background /connection to prior knowledge: pupils have learnt about how to read fluently and confidently.
Content: Fluency
- A text based on the birthday party (non-fiction)
- A history of Nigeria (fiction)
Evaluation: The teacher asked questions on what has been taught.
- Read the passages fluently
- Identify keywords
- Say the meaning of the keywords
- Answer the questions on the passages.