Lesson Planning for Compound Words

 

Lesson Planning for Understand and locate some Compound Words from various Text Sources

Subject English

Grade 4^th

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Understand and locate some compound words from various text sources.

Information for Teachers

• Compound words are formed by joining two or more simple words to create a new word with a different meaning, as; ‘air + plane’ = airplane, play + ground = playground
• Compound words are words that are formed from complete words and not prefixes or suffixes: week + end = weekend but week + ly is not a compound word.
• Studying compound words is fun, helps students understand the language, builds an interest in words and will help prepare students to learn prefixes, suffixes and word roots.
• While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also consult textbook at all steps where and when applicable.

 

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk/marker, duster, textbook, notebooks

Introduction

• Tell the students that today you are going to help them learn a trick to increase their vocabulary

• Remind them addition sums and signs of + and =.
• Introduce compound words to the students by writing following words as sums;

1. Star + fish = star fish
2. Cup + cake = cupcake
3. Rain + water = rainwater
4. Rain + drop = raindrop

• Write the following words on the writing board or make flashcards of these words, as; playground, breakfast, lunchbox
• Ask the students to break up these words to make two different words e.g. lunch and box.
• Tell the students these words are compound words with the help of above mentioned information
• Ask them to look up more compound words from their textbook (Note of teacher: please select an appropriate text with compound words from the textbook, which itself is a compound word.

Development

Activity 1

• Write the following exercise on the writing board and ask the students to copy in their notebooks.
• Tell them to work in pairs and combine the word on the left with another word in the list to make a compound word.

1. Hand +_________    (End, day)

• Compound word: Weekend

2. Sun + __________ (shine set flower)

• Compound word:  Sunshine set flower

3. Bed + ________   (room)

• Compound word: Bedroom

4. Butter + ______   (fly)

• Compound word: Butterfly

 

Activity 2

• Ask the students to copy the exercise in their notebooks.
• Tell them to work in pairs and identify the compound words, as;
• Handshake, suitcase, beehive, bedtime, newspapers

1. Shake hands: _______________
2. Time for bed: ______________
3. Paper filled with news ________
4. Bees live in ________________
5. Pack cloth in this ___________

Conclusion / Sum up

1. What are compound words?

• Tell some compound words.

Assessment

• Write the correct answers on the writing board and ask the students to do the self-correction.
• Take rounds of the class and ask the students about their scores.
• Ask the students to write the wrong sentences again.
• Teacher is also required to involve the students in solving the problems given in the exercise at end of unit / chapter.

Follow up

• Ask the students to find out five compound words from their English books and make one more word from the root word of that compound word.