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WEEK1

Topic: Phonemic Awareness

Subtitle: Phonemic

Learning Objectives: At the end of this this lesson, pupils should be able to:

  1. Pronounce words correctly using their sound
  2. 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;

  1. born /o/ and burn/u/,
  2. firm/o/ and form/o/,
  3. cot/o/and court/ur/
  4. spot/o/ and sport/or/.
  5. When/w/ and then/t/
  6. Thin/t/ and chin/c/
  7. 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

  1. Seem/seen
  2. Pool/pull
  3. Come/cone
  4. Knew/know

WRAP UP(CONCLUSION) Teacher goes over the topic once again for better understanding.

Assignment:

  1. write five (5) pairs of phonemes
  2. underline and write the difference
  1. perch/porch
  2. then/than
  3. bad/had
  4. by/my
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WEEK 2

Topic: Phonics I

Subtitle: Vowels and diphthongs

Learning Objectives: At the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to:

  1. Produce vowel sounds and diphthongs
  2. Write out words containing vowels and diphthongs
  3. 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;

  1. Short vowels: are one phoneme vowels because their sound is not prolonged and do not have diacritic(:).
  2. Long vowels: they have diacritic(:) which is a colon like two dots symbol examples/i:/, /a:/, it prolongs the sound of the vowel.
  3. Diphthongs: are addition of two vowel sound together and the voice moves from one to another, for example, /ai/and /ei/.

Short vowels

  1. Got
  2. Sit
  3. Cap
  4. Put
  5. Ten

long vowels

  1. See
  2. Bird
  3. Saw
  4. Too
  5. 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.

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Step5: Teacher evaluates the pupils.

Assessment & Evaluation:

  1. Underline the diphthong, that is /ai/ and /ei/

File, fail, light, late, tile, tail, bike, bake, pay and pile.

  1. Write five words with long vowels.

WRAP UP(CONCLUSION) Teacher goes over the topic once again for better understanding.

Assignment:

  1. Write 10 words with diphthongs.

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