Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Nursery 2

Longer words-meanings and uses

SUBJECT: PHONICS                                    

CLASS: NURSERY 2

TERM: 2ND TERM

LESSON PLAN FOR 3RD WEEK

AGE: 4-5years

DURATION : 3 periods of 40 mins each 

DATE:

TOPIC : Longer words-meanings and uses

CONTENT : Longer words-meanings and uses: umbrella, banana, animal, market, basket

 

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to;

  1. Identify the meaning of some long words
  2. Sound and the write the longer words

 

ENTRY BEHAVIOR : Pupils can sound and identify short sentences and phrases

SET INDUCTION : The teachers tells a story about her visit to the market on the previous day(story content containing all the long words about to be introduced) to arouse the interest of the pupils 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES : Singing, storytelling, playway, gestures/demonstration,gestures, explanation and repetition 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS : Flash cards containing the long words, phonics sound chart, charts showing the long words used in a picture story

 

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES 

 

PERIOD 1 AND 2: Sounding and writing the long words

S/N

STEPS

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

PUPILS ACTIVITY

1

REVISITING THE PREVIOUS LESSON/INTRODUCTION

The teacher revises the previous lesson about phrases and short sentences

The teacher introduces the new topic with Sounding and writing long words

The pupils listen

2

SOUNDING LONG WORDS

The teacher writes the following long words and sounds it repeatedly as the pupils responds

1. umbrella 

2. banana 

3.animal 

4. market 

5. basket

The pupils listen and participate

3

EVALUATION

The teacher evaluates the pupils by dictating the long words for the pupils to write it down in their books

1. umbrella 

2. banana 

3.animal 

4. market 

5. basket

 

4

CLASSWORK

In the class activity book, the pupils are made to identify the long words/objects and sound them

 

5

CONCLUSION

The teacher marks, commends and corrects where necessary

 

 

PERIOD 3: Identification of the meaning of some long words

S/N

STEPS

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

PUPILS ACTIVITY

1

REVISITING THE PREVIOUS LESSON/INTRODUCTION

The teacher revises the previous lesson sounding and writing long words

The teacher introduces the topic Meanings of some long words

The pupils listen

2

DISCOVERING THE MEANINGS OF SOME LONG WORDS

The teacher writes the meaning of each of the long words on the board and reads it repeatedly as the pupils responds

1. umbrella- cloth-covered frame used to protect us against sun and rain 

2. banana- a fruit that grows in bunches- 

3.animal – an organism that have many cells and can walk about

4. market – a place where we buy and sell

5. basket-a container made of strips we use to hold or carry something

The pupils listen and participate

3

EVALUATION

The teacher asks the pupils to make a sentence each with

1. umbrella

2. banana

3. animal

 

4

CLASSWORK

The teacher ask the pupils to make a sentence each with

1. market

2. basket

 

5

CONCLUSION

The teacher marks, commends and corrects where necessary

 

 

 

 

SCHEME OF WORK FOR SECOND TERM

Week

Topic

1

Use of ‘I’ stand alone in a sentence (why it is pronounced using its name rather than its sound)

2

Phrases and short sentences. I can run,     a red bag,    a big bag,    a frog can jump

3

Longer words-meanings, spellings and making sentences with them: market, basket, banana, umbrella, animal etc

4

Diagraph ‘ai’; rain,   pain,   jail,  mail,  tail,  nail,  fail,

Diagraph ‘ay’; stay,  pay,  clay,  pray,  may

5

Diagraph ‘ee’: see,  fee,  reed, peep, 

Diagraph ‘ea’; tea,  heat, meat, seat

6

Diagraph ‘oa’ e.g coat, boat,  road,  float,  goat, soak,  croak   

Diagraph ‘ow’ e.g b-ow, ow-n,  l-ow,  bl-ow,  cr-ow

7

Diagraph ‘oo’(short); book,  look,  cook,  took,  hook,  wood

Diagraph ‘OO’(long); moon,  soon,  cool,  shoot,  food,  roo

8

Diagraph ‘ou’: sour,  loud, cloud, noun, found

Diagraph ‘ow’: owl, how, now, down, town, cow, howl

9

Diagraph ‘oi’: oil, boil, coil, coin, foil, soil, 

Diagraph ‘oy’; e.g   boy,   toy,  ploy,  enjoy,  annoy 

 

 



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