Lesson Plan of Punctuation and Spelling

Subject English

Write sentences of their own using correct capitalization, punctuation and spellings.

Capitalization for beginning sentences and for proper nouns.
Punctuation features to be re-introduced to grade III: full stop, comma, question mark, capital letter.
Tell the students that they are going to write about themselves and their families.

In this lesson they will be taught possessive helping verbs (has, have) and pronouns (I, you, we, they, he, she, it) etc.
Students will check each other`s work for correct capitalization, punctuation and spellings.

While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also consult the te4xtbook where applicable.

Writing board, chalk/ marker, duster, attached worksheet, textbook

Ask the students:
- - How many brothers and sisters do you have?
  - How old are you?
  - Do you have relatives other than parents, brothers and sisters, who live with you in the same house e.g. grandparents, uncles or aunts?

Activity 1

Draw a worksheet 1 on the writing board and ask the students to draw the tree in their copies.

Once they have finished drawing and writing ask them to fill the worksheet.
While the students do their work monitor and help the students.
When students are finished with the first tree worksheet.
Ask students to write sentences about their friend using information on the tree.
Recap the punctuation and capitalization rules.
Tell the students that ‘have’ is used for, I, you, us and them.
While ‘has’ is used for she, he, and it.
I, me, you, we, they, them, their, he, his, him, she, her are pronouns.
Make students practice this by repeating after you several times:
- - I have
  - We have
  - You have
  - They have
  - She has
  - He has
  - It has
Draw this table on the board and do an oral drill of a few sentences using the information from any one of the tree diagram. Img
For example:
- - She has two brothers.
  - He likes mangoes.
  - They have a house in the village.

Now ask the students to write five sentences about their friend using information given in the tree diagram.

Activity 2

Ask students to choose and write about any member of their family.
Encourage them to choose someone that they have never written about before.
Discuss with them what 3 or 4 pieces of information will be most interesting for their paragraph (instead of just writing about how old they are and what time they wake up.
A paragraph should be interesting and carry unique information about the topic.
For example:
- - Does the person they are writing about have a nickname?
  - How does that person spend time with you?
  - What does he/she say to you?
  - Does that person have any habits that you like or dislike?

Activity 3

Tell the students to make a family book.
For this they can take a notebook and cover it with brown paper, give the title of Family Book, decorate it with drawings and pictures.
Then ask them to interview a member of their family and write their answers in the family book.
You can help them prepare questions:
- - Interview a sibling about the best time they had with you.
  - Interview your mother about the summer vacation she had as a child.
  - Interview your grandmother/aunt about her childhood friends.
  - Interview your father about his favourite teacher?
Ask the students to share their interviews with the class.

Ask them:
- - What should we remember when beginning a sentence?
  - Where else do we use capital letters?
Give examples:

Ask the students to exchange and read each other`s work in pairs.
Tell the students to check capitalization, punctuation and spelling mistakes and write again, after the first checking, keeping the corrections in mind.
Involve the students in solving problems given in exercise at the end of unit/chapter.

Ask the students to write a paragraph about their families.
You may decide to leave out the second and third blanks in the tree diagram(place and date of birth)
You can add a fill in the blank: other relatives living with you_________________
Instead of family trees, tell the students to make family tree houses.
The people who live in the house are included on the tree.
For example: grandmother and grandfather, mother and father, etc.