OLPC Tuvalu/Lesson Plans/LP2

Lesson Plan.

Subject: English

Level: 6

Date: 26th January 2010

Duration: 40mins

Topic: Punctuation

Week: 2

Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, children would be able to:


 * 1) recognise the various punctuations and their uses (inverted commas, apostrophe, exclamation mark, etc) ii.
 * 2) write a dialogue and to use punctuations using CHAT and SPEAK activity.

Resources: Laptops, charts

Laptop Activity: Chat, Speak.

Classroom Management: 1 group to work with laptops, while others to work with charts given.

PRESENTATION

Laptop methods:


 * Prepare some long sentences without punctuation and ask them to try using Speak Activity to add punctuation.
 * Divide in groups or pairs and they can use chat and add punctuation and Speak to test the pronunciation. They can use Speak Chat mode to test their finished punctuated sentences against each other.

Preparation


 * Test the best grouping method for the collaborative Speak-Chat activity. Pairs may be difficult, it may be best to divide into groups of larger numbers and then pair the groups (i.e. use one laptop only per group to do the collaborative chatting, whilst the other children can test using their laptops in stand alone mode.

Evaluation: