Students` Learning Outcomes
- Select and use some strategies to organize ideas for writing such as outlines, mind maps etc.
Information for Teachers
- Brainstorming means thinking of everything you can about a topic.
- In the ‘ worksheet’ below, write down all the ideas you can think of for the topic “All about me”.
- Remember there are no right or wrong words, or good or bad ideas. Just write whatever comes to the students` minds.
- The pictures used above to gather ideas for writing is a mind map.
- While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also consult the textbook at all steps where and when needed.
Material / Resources
Writing board, chalk/marker, duster, worksheet, textbook
Introduction
- Ask the students randomly:
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- What are their favourite subjects?
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2. What are their favourite stories?
- Which words best describes them e.g. helping, honest, etc.
Development
Activity 1
- Draw the dolls worksheet on the writing board and ask the students to draw it on their notebooks.
- Ask the students what do they think they are going to do that day?
- Once they are done with drawing, ask them to work in pairs and write the words and phrases according to the headings given in the worksheet.
- Monitor and help the students while working.
Activity 2
- Ask the students to make sentences using the above brainstormed words.
- Monitor and help the students while working.
Sum up / Conclusion
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- Ask the students to tell:
- What is brainstorming?
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Assessment
- Ask the students to exchange their work with their peers for checking.
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- Tell the students to check each other`s work for correct spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation.
- Ask the students to rewrite their work in the light of the feedback given by their peers.
- Teacher is also required to involve the student I solving the problems given in the exercise at the end of unit / chapter.
Follow up
- Tell the students to write an essay on “All about me”, using the above brainstormed ideas.
