FIRST SCHEME OF WORK WITH LESSON NOTES NURSERY 2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Subject: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Class: NURSERY 2
Term: Third Term
Nursery Two Term one PAGE 1
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Week 1 & 2
Topic: Review of sound and letters
Instructional Materials
- Wall charts
- Pictures
- Online Resource
- Textbooks
Methods of Teaching
- Role modelling
- Questions and Answers
- Explanation
- Discussion
- Recitation
- Imitation
- Story Telling
- Dramatization
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.
Content: Letters of the Alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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.
Presentation:
The topic is presented step by step
Step 1: The class teacher revises the old topic
Step 2: The class teacher introduces the new topic
Step 3: The class teacher allows the pupils to give their own contributions and gives room for pupils” participation
Class Teacher and Pupils Activities. Interaction or Participation
This involves class teacher and pupils’ interaction, conversation, imitation or modeling through discussion, play method or just by recitation or asking and answering questions that are related to the topic that has just been taught
Evaluation
- The first letter of the alphabet is ____________
- The second letter of the alphabet is ____________
- After B comes ____________
- After S comes ____________
- Before G comes ____________
- Before M comes ____________
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 three letter words 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 the activities of building words to the whiteboard.
Cu——p, ba——–t , ma——t, ca——t
PAGE 2 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 PAGE 3
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.