### Lesson Plan: Picture Composition
#### Grade: Primary 6
#### Subject: English (Composition)
#### Duration: 60 minutes
#### Topic: Picture Composition
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**Objectives:**
- To develop students’ descriptive writing skills.
- To enhance creativity and imagination.
- To improve vocabulary and sentence structure usage.
- To practice organizing thoughts into a coherent narrative.
**Materials:**
- A set of engaging pictures (one per student or group)
- Whiteboard and markers
- Writing paper and pencils
- Thesauruses and dictionaries (optional)
**Introduction (10 minutes):**
1. **Greetings and Attendance:** Welcome students and take attendance.
2. **Set the Stage:**
- Introduce the concept of picture composition. Explain that they will be using a picture to create a story or descriptive piece of writing.
- Show an example picture on the board and create a short story/narrative together as a class. Highlight key elements like setting, characters, and the plot.
**Warm-Up Activity (10 minutes):**
- **Observation Exercise:** Give students one minute to closely observe a picture that you display on the board.
- **Discussion:** Ask questions about the picture to stimulate their thinking:
- What do you see in the picture?
- Who are the people/animals?
- What could be happening at that moment?
- How do you think the characters feel?
**Main Activity (30 minutes):**
1. **Picture Distribution:** Hand out different pictures to each student or small group.
2. **Brainstorming (5 minutes):**
- Encourage students to jot down their initial thoughts, observations, and any vocabulary words they might want to use in their writing.
- Remind them to think about the key elements: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How.
3. **Writing (20 minutes):**
- Instruct students to write a composition based on their picture.
- Encourage them to structure their work with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
- Walk around the class to provide assistance, answer questions, and offer support.
**Peer Review (5 minutes):**
- Pair students up to read and provide feedback on each other's compositions. Encourage them to look for strong descriptive words and clear storytelling, as well as to suggest any improvements.
**Conclusion (5 minutes):**
- **Sharing:** Ask a few students to share their compositions with the class.
- **Feedback:** Provide positive feedback and highlight the use of good descriptive language and interesting storylines.
- **Wrap-Up:** Summarize the importance of using pictures to ignite imagination and creativity in writing.
**Homework/Extension:**
- Ask students to create illustrations for their compositions or write an alternative ending to their stories.
**Assessment:**
- Monitor student participation during the brainstorming and writing processes.
- Review the compositions for use of descriptive language, creativity, coherence, and organization.
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### **Differentiated Instruction:**
- **For advanced students:** Challenge them to use a wider range of vocabulary and more complex sentence structures.
- **For struggling students:** Provide additional support with vocabulary and ideas, possibly through word banks or sentence starters.
### **Reflection:**
- After the lesson, consider what went well and what could be improved.
- Collect student feedback on their engagement and understanding of the activity to fine-tune future lessons.
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This lesson plan aims to make writing fun and engaging by using visual stimuli to spark students' imaginations and help them develop their descriptive writing skills in an organized and coherent way.