Basic 4 Ghanaian Language Term 1 Week 6 Lesson Plan

Let learners sing a song they know. Engage learners in the “Lucky Dip game” Learners take turns to dip their hands into a box containing words of collective nouns, pick a card and use the word in a sentence. E.g. a team of horses, a bevy of ladies, a flock of sheep Choose 5-6 letters that the learners know and make 5- 10 cards with each sound on. Give each child a card and ask them to remember the sounds and hide it. They walk around the classroom making that sound and find other children saying the same sound. They form groups of the same sound Write nine key words used in the previous lesson, in boxes on the board. Challenge students to make a (historically accurate) sentence of at least three lines or a short paragraph using them all

Write a number of sentences on a cardboard. Use full stops at the end of each sentence you write. Lead learners to read the sentences as a group and in turns. Tell them that the full stop is used at the end of a complete sentence. Write more sentences on the board without full stops and ask learners to use the full stop to punctuate them. Draw some items on a cardboard. call learners to mention the names of the items you have drawn on the board and write the names down horizontally. Use commas to separate the items you have written. Let learners recognize that a comma is used to separate a list of items in a row. Let learners make list of items in sentences using commas. Revise command and response with learners. Write some questions on a cardboard. Lead learners to read the questions. Use question marks at the end of each of the questions. Let learners recognize that question marks are used at the end of a question. write more questions on the board and call learners to come out to punctuate them using the question mark. For this activity, learners use locally made punctuation cards, sentence strips about local life and exercise books and pencils to place the correct marks in the sentence strips and write punctuated sentences of their own.

Use questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt Use questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt