TERM TWO     Nursery Two ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

TERM TWO

Week 1

Topic: Review of two and three lettered words .read and write capital letters

Objectives :At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to pronounce , write two and three lettered words , and write the letters of the alphabet in capital.

Lesson: 4 Lessons

Materials: Materials used in the previous introduction of two and three lettered words

Activities: Teacher should take the pupils through spelling process for two and three lettered words using large movable alphabets .

Evaluation  : Ask relevant questions eg. Write 5 examples each  for two and three lettered words

Week   2

Topic: Review the phonogram “th”

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to pronounce words that have “th” phonogram such as that, these etc.

Lesson: 4 Lessons

Materials:  synthetic  phonic cubes, large movable alphabet, flash cards.

Activities: The teacher further treats phonograms “th” and gives more examples

Week 3& 4

Topic: Introduce longer phonetic words with large movable alphabet blue picture cards

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to pronounce longer phonetic words like basket, crump.

Lesson : 8 Lessons

Materials: blue picture cards , large movable alphabet

Activities: The teacher should produce a word list, dictate the word, fill in missing letters , match words with words and letters and also build new longer phonetic words

Evaluation: Evaluation should be done according to the activities

Week 5 & 6

Topic: Introduce phonograms  “oo”

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to  pronounce word that has the phonogram “oo” eg. Hook.

Lesson: 8 Lessons

Materials: phonogram cards in this category.

Activities: The teacher should build words that have the phonogram “oo” and guide the pupils to pronounce the words . Pupils should also be taken through dictation and oral off hand  spelling of some of these words-hook, book, food, zoo, cool, fool, brook, tool, wool etc.

Evaluation: The teacher should consider the activities carried out closely during the evaluation. NB : The teacher should prepare a simple comprehension passage that will help the child to  commit these words to his or her memory….the old fool sat by the cool pool in the hot noon. He dip his foot into the cool pool . He looks into the book of zoo with him.

Week 7 & 8

Topic: Introduce the Queen Primer 2

NB: Right from now, comprehension passages from the  Queen Primer and other supplementary readings textbooks selected by the school  should be used   with questions and answers coming from them.

Lesson: 8 Lessons

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to able to read better  and with fluency

Materials : pupils textbooks and  and audio visuals

Activities:  The teacher reads the comprehension passage severally while the pupils listen. The pupils are also directed to read in turns while the teacher listens and further corrects their errors.

Evaluation: Evaluation is done with the questions emanating from the comprehension passage.

Week 9 & 10

Topic: Phonograms “ee” and “ ine”

NB: Build words such as weed, seed, see , meek, need, bleed. Dictate, fill in, match etc.  Form into comprehension passage as in week 5 & 6 . And questions orally and in written form.

Though, the children learn some of the letters of the alphabet in their immediate environment, the teacher should make it a point of duty to teach the  alphabet    and explain according to the pupils level of understanding ,the difference between sounds of  English words and letters of the alphabet.

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