Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Primary 1

Consonant blends 2

 

LESSON PLAN FOR 2nd WEEK

CLASS : PRIMARY 1

AGE: 5-6years

DURATION : 3 periods of 40 mins each 

DATE:

TERM: 1st Term

TOPIC : Consonant blends 2

CONTENT : Consonant blends (gr, pr, cr, dr, br, fr)

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

  1. Define the term consonant blends
  2. Identify, sound and spell words with consonant blends(gr, pr, cr, dr, br, fr)

ENENTRY BEHAVIOR : Pupils can identify alphabet letters

SET INDUCTION : The teachers uses pictures of familiar objects with R-blends to arouse the pupils interest

 

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES : Discussion, group activities, 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS : Two set of index cards with the beginning blends (gr, pr, cr, dr, br, fr)written on them, a few images(vocabulary cards) or objects of things that begin with the R blend(crab, dress, frog, grape, pram)

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES 

PERIOD 1 AND 2:  Identification, sounding and spelling words beginning with R-blends(br, cr, fr)

S/N

STEPS

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

PUPILS ACTIVITY

1

Introduction

- Displays one of the R-blend objects or images(broom)

 

- Writes the name of the object on the board and underline the consonant blend

Broom

Br-oom

- Explains that today’s learning will be about words that contain the R-blends at the beginning

The pupils identifies the object and say its name aloud

2

Building academic Language

- Reviews the sound R by writing a lowercase and uppercase l on the board. 

R

r

Says the sound loud

- Explains that they’ll be learning how to identify and read words that contain R-blends. This means that the first letter of the word will be a consonant and the second letter will be an R

- Writes a word that begin with an R-blend on the board and models how to segment the word into parts(r-blend and remaining letters)

Br-oom

The pupils repeat the sound after the teachers



-The pupils practice reading and blending the segmented words along with the teacher

3

Sentence

- Writes the following blends(br, cr, fr) on the board and practices reading each blends and think of words that begin with them

Br                  cr                  fr

Br-oom         cr-own         fr-og

Br-ick           cr-ab           fr-

-Models how to record the word and draw quick pictures of them

Br-oom

Broom

Br-ick

Brick

Cr-own

Crown

Cr-ab

Crab

Fr-og

Frog

Fr-ame

Frame

 

4

Discourse

-Pairs up the pupils and pass out one of the pre-written index cards and two pieces of blank paper to each pair

- as pupils to work together to write and draw as many words that begin with their R-blends

- brings the class together and have them share out the new words they came up with

 

5

Evaluation 

-pass out the Beginning Blends Review Worksheet for each student to complete independently

-As pupils are working, assesses if they are able to identify R-blends and appropriately blend the sounds in a word together 

 

PERIOD 3:  Identification, sounding and spelling words beginning with R-blends(gr, pr, gr)

S/N

STEPS

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

PUPILS ACTIVITY

1

Introduction

- Displays one of the r-blend objects or images(grapes) 

- Writes the name of the object on the board and underline the consonant blend

Grapes

grapes

- Explains that today’s learning will be about words that contain the R-blends at the beginning

The pupils identifies the object and say its name aloud

2

Building academic Language

- Reviews the sound R by writing a lowercase and uppercase l on the board. 

R

r

Says the sound loud

- Explains that they’ll be learning how to identify and read words that contain R-blends. This means that the first letter of the word will be a consonant and the second letter will be an R

- Writes a word that begin with an R-blend on the board and models how to segment the word into parts(r-blend and remaining letters)

gr-apes

The pupils repeat the sound after the teachers



-The pupils practice reading and blending the segmented words along with the teacher

3

Sentence

- Writes the following blends(gr, pr, dr) on the board and practices reading each blends and think of words that begin with them

gr                  pr                  dr

gr-apes       pr-am           dr-ess

gr-een         pr-ug            dr-agon

-Models how to record the word and draw quick pictures of them gr-apes

Grapes

gr-een

Green          

pr-am    

Pram       

Pr-inter

Printer

dr-ess

Dress

dr-agon

Dragon

 

4

Discourse

-Pairs up the pupils and pass out one of the pre-written index cards and two pieces of blank paper to each pair

- as pupils to work together to write and draw as many words that begin with their R-blends

- brings the class together and have them share out the new words they came up with

 

5

Evaluation 

-pass out the Beginning Blends Review Worksheet for each student to complete independently

-As pupils are working, assesses if they are able to identify R -blends and appropriately blend the sounds in a word together 

 

 

PHONICS SCHEME OF WORK FOR PRIMARY 1 FIRST TERM

WEEK

TOPICS

1

Consonant blends 1(L-blends)

2

Consonant blends 2 (R-blends)

3

Double consonants

4

Hard and soft g and c sound

5

Homophones

6

Long a sound patterns

7

Long e sound patterns

8

Long i sound patterns

9

Long o sound patterns

 



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