Lesson Planning of My Word Book

 

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Organize vocabulary items learnt in class in a notebook according to selected organizing principles, such as arranging words in alphabetical order and parts of speech.

Information for Teachers

• Parts of speech (word class) are nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives), adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and inter-jection.

 

Nouns	Noun is a naming word, as; chair, boy, Pakistan, etc.
Verbs	Verb is a doing word, as; play, win, teach, etc.
Adjectives	Adjective is the quality of a noun, as; red, five, big, etc.
Pronouns	Pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, as; he, her, its, etc.
Preposition	It shows relationship between two things, as; in, on, under, etc.

• Students are going to use words consciously and unconsciously which they have already learnt in the class.
• While teaching the lesson, consult the textbook where and when applicable

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk / marker, duster, textbook, writing pad

Introduction

• Recap parts of speech by asking students the following questions:
• What are nouns / verbs / adjectives / adverbs, conjunctions / interjections / preposition?
• Give examples in sentences.
• What is alphabetical order?

 

• Revise the concept of alphabetical order and parts of speech before doing the activities.

Development

Activity 1

• Give the students vocabulary bank and tell them that they have to separate parts of speech in groups on drafting pads, copies or notebooks.
• Tell each group to make a list of those in alphabetical order.
• Instruct the students to do their work neatly. The name of their books should be verbs, nouns, adjectives or adverbs.
• Put these four books in one corner of the class and make that corner ‘Library Corner’.
• Sample of the vocabulary bank:

• (Teacher can vary the list according to the level of their class. Increase the words as per strength of the class)

Activity 2

• Ask the students to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns in the following sentences.
• Ask them to write ‘N’ for nouns, ‘V’ for verbs, ‘A’ for adjectives ‘P’ for pronouns.

1. 1. 1)      He takes care of his toys.
   2. 2)      She is a responsible girl.
   3. 3)      We colour our beautiful pictures.
   4. 4)      My pencil is small.
   5. 5)      Shania tells me an interesting story.

Activity 3

• Take vocabulary words from activity 2.
• Write all the nouns in alphabetical order.
• Write all the verbs in alphabetical order.
• Write all the adjectives in alphabetical order.
• Write all the pronouns in alphabetical order.

Sum up / Conclusion

• Ask them:

1. What is dictionary?
2. What is an alphabetical order?
3. How is it useful to have the words organized in this way?

Assessment

• Ask the students to write the following as nouns, verbs, adjectives or pronoun.
• After that instruct them to write the following words in alphabetical order;

Clean

Look

Parents

Sana

Her

Seven

Sitting

Talking

Pretty

Cat

 

Follow up

• Encourage the students to keep on adding the new learnt vocabulary according to the organizing principles of words class and alphabetical order.