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WEEK1
Topic: Phonemic Awareness
Subtitle: Phonemic
Learning Objectives: At the end of this this lesson, pupils should be able to:
- Pronounce words correctly using their sound
- Differentiate between sounds in words and correct intonation
Resources and materials:
Scheme of work
Online information
Instructional material: picture chart and flash card
Building Background/connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with numbers in hundred, tens and units from their previous classes.
CONTENT
Phoneme is an individual unit of sound in a given word or it is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation, as well as its meaning, from another word. For example, the /s/ in soar differentiates it from /r/ in roar, as it becomes different from soar in pronunciation as well as meaning, other examples are;
- born /o/ and burn/u/,
- firm/o/ and form/o/,
- cot/o/and court/ur/
- spot/o/ and sport/or/.
- When/w/ and then/t/
- Thin/t/ and chin/c/
- Pin /i/ and pen/e/
Strategies& Activities:
Step1: Teacher revises the previous topic.
Step2: Teacher introduces the new topic.
Step3: Teacher explains the new topic.
Step4: Teacher welcomes pupils’ questions.
Step5: Teacher evaluates the pupils.
Assessment & Evaluation: underline and write the difference
- Seem/seen
- Pool/pull
- Come/cone
- Knew/know
WRAP UP(CONCLUSION) Teacher goes over the topic once again for better understanding.
Assignment:
- write five (5) pairs of phonemes
- underline and write the difference
- perch/porch
- then/than
- bad/had
- by/my
WEEK 2
Topic: Phonics I
Subtitle: Vowels and diphthongs
Learning Objectives: At the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to:
- Produce vowel sounds and diphthongs
- Write out words containing vowels and diphthongs
- Differentiate between vowels and diphthongs by producing them correctly
Resources and materials:
Scheme of work
Online information
Instructional material: picture chart and flash cards
Building Background/connection to prior knowledge: pupils are familiar with the topic in their previous classes.
CONTENT
Vowels and diphthongs
Vowels are sound that are not pronounced by the touch of two organs of vocal tract, rather it is just an air stream. There are three types of vowels;
- Short vowels: are one phoneme vowels because their sound is not prolonged and do not have diacritic(:).
- Long vowels: they have diacritic(:) which is a colon like two dots symbol examples/i:/, /a:/, it prolongs the sound of the vowel.
- Diphthongs: are addition of two vowel sound together and the voice moves from one to another, for example, /ai/and /ei/.
Short vowels
- Got
- Sit
- Cap
- Put
- Ten
long vowels
- See
- Bird
- Saw
- Too
- Father
Diphthongs
/ai/ —————————————- /ei/
Kite ———————————— cake
Sky ———————————— wake
Ride ———————————— name
Nine ———————————— steak
My ———————————— skate
Fly ———————————— take
By ———————————— break
Mice ———————————— maid
Lice ———————————— sake
Time ———————————— paint
Twice ———————————— great
Why ———————————— rain
Eye ———————————— eight
Buy ———————————— rake
Strategies& Activities:
Step1: Teacher revises the previous topic.
Step2: Teacher introduces the new topic.
Step3: Teacher explains the new topic.
Step4: Teacher welcomes pupils’ questions.
Step5: Teacher evaluates the pupils.
Assessment & Evaluation:
- Underline the diphthong, that is /ai/ and /ei/
File, fail, light, late, tile, tail, bike, bake, pay and pile.
- Write five words with long vowels.
WRAP UP(CONCLUSION) Teacher goes over the topic once again for better understanding.
Assignment:
- Write 10 words with diphthongs.
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