Nursery Two Term one ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Nursery Two

Term one

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Week 1 & 2

Topic: Review of sound and letters

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to match letters , fill in the missing letters and copy down correctly during dictation.

Lesson: 2 Lessons

Materials: Charts on the alphabet, movable letters and flash cards on alphabet.

Activities: The teacher should take pupils through the usual activities of teaching letters in nursery one .

Evaluation: practical evaluation

Week 3

Topic: Review two letter phonetic words and sentences

Lesson : 4 Lessons

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to read, fill in , match and copy down during dictations.

Materials: flash cards on two letter words

Activities: Take them through activities that will make them proficient in this topic viz: dictation, matching and fill in.

Evaluation:  thorough class  exercises and homework

Week 4 & 5

Topic:   Introduce building of three letter phonetic words

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to build and read thre letter word phonetic words using large movable alphabets and pink picture cards .

Lesson: 8 Lessons

Materials: Large movable alphabet and pink picture cards

Activities: The teacher should extend  activities of  building words to the whiteboard.

Cu——p,

ba——–t ,

ma——t,

ca——t

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NB: Teacher should also do dictation of three letter words .

Week 6

Topic: Matching of words to words and objects

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to match words with words , and match words with objects , fill in the missing letters .

Lesson: 8 Lessons

Materials: Cut out cards of words , movable alphabets , picture cards

Activities : The teacher   takes the pupils through activities such as matching words with words . Matching words with  objects  and filling missing letters.

1. bat pat

rod         cot

pat          bat

2. c——t ( u,d)

c——p( a, t)

b——d (e, c)

NB: The picture stamp pad is useful in this topic.

Evaluation:  Class activities and homework

Week 7

Topic: Introduce reading of three lettered words . Phonetic sentences

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to read three lettered words and articulate phonetic expressions fluently.

Lesson: 4 Lessons

Materials: Large movable alphabets , white board

Activities: The teacher should form a simple comprehension  and take pupils through reading of the comprehension passage – avoid  words that are too long for easy pronunciation,  Queen Primer  1 is very relevant here.

Evaluation: The teacher supervises them to read the comprehension in turns .

Week 8

Topic:  Introduce phonograms and two lettered non phonetic words .

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to pronounce two lettered non-phonetic words  and words that has phonograms .

Lesson: 4 Lessons

Materials: Synthetic phonic cubes ,sound steps 1 & 2.

Activities: The teacher should explain the two and three lettered non-phonetic words  like he, we me, see, bee, my, by, to go, so, no, is ,it etc. He should also teach phonograms such as who, what the, that, which etc.

Evaluation: Ask relevant questions

Week 9

Topic : Provide a word list ,read through, dictate, fill and match words with words .

Objectives:At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to copy down  during dictation , pronounce each word on the word list, fill in the missing letter and read simple comprehension passage.

Lesson: 4 Lessons

Material: flash cards

Activities: The teacher  takes the pupils through the word list and be sure that every is adequately carried along .

Evaluation: Ask relevant questions

Week 10

Topic: Expand reading . Do extensive work on Queen P rimer  1

Objectives: At the end of the lesson , pupils should be able to read and answer simple questions from the passage .

Lesson: 4 Lessons

Material: Queen primer  1, flash cards , large movable alphabet

Activities: The teacher should take  the pupils through a lot of reading exercises , and allow the sentences to grow  into complexity e.g  The fat man is with an egg. That is the red hen on a big mat.

Evaluation: Ask them to say some relevant expressions .