COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY NURSERY 2 TERM 1

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 COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY NURSERY 2 TERM 1

 (C. L. L.)

 

LESSON 1: IDENTIFICATION OF ALPHABETS AND THEIR SOUNDS

The major emphasis in this class is to develop the reading ability of the children. At this stage, they should have known the sounds of all the alphabets. They should have also started blending few letters.

You start the class by finding out the ability of each child based on their letters and sound awareness. When that is achieved, you then focus in teaching them phonetic sounds.

In this class, the teacher should de-emphasis letter name and focus on letter sound. Structure the children’s mind in such a way that whenever you point at any letter, the children should tell you the sound rather than the name. This will hasten their speed in reading. 

 

TOPIC:  BLENDING OF SOUNDS

 

Blending is the ability of the children to build words from individual sounds by blending the sound together in sequence. 

It is the ability of a child to string together the sound that each letter stands for in a word.

Since the children know the sounds of all the alphabets, you teach them that whenever they see any word, they should pronounce the sound of each letter sound by sound. When they succeed in doing that, you now ask the child to say the sounds faster, as the child tries to say the sounds faster, he or she will succeed in pronouncing the words.

 

 COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY NURSERY 2 TERM 1 

LESSON 2: BLENDING OF TWO SOUNDS (visual blending)

It is always good to start with fewer letters at the start of blending exercise. You write a word with two letters like: it, is, am, as, an etc.

NOTE: In teaching blending or reading, you can write words that do not make sense. Your goal is to teach the children how to join sounds to make out words. So, even if the word does not make meaning, it’s not a problem so long the children can sound the letters that make up that word.

So, you can write two letter words like: af, ma, ba, be, cl, etc.

 

EXERCISE:

Pronunciation of ‘at’

Write ‘a’ on the board.

Point to the letter and ask the children to say the sound /a/

Then write ‘t’ on the board

Ask the children to say the sound /t:/

Then write ‘at’

Ask the children to pronounce the two sounds together. You will hear /a t:/

Let the children keep saying it faster, the faster they pronounce the sounds, the clearer the word comes out.

Do several exercises with the children. Write variety of words. Mix up different letters.

 

LESSON 3: BLENDING OF 3 SOUNDS

The process is the same with two letters. The only difference is that the children have more letters to sound.

Let’s sound these letters: m a n

Slide your finger under each letter as you say slowly and extend the sound that the letter stands for. /m/ /a/ /n/. 

In this instance, don’t allow the children to pause between sounds. You will hear /mmmaaannn/

They should slowly compress the extended word----/mmaann/ further compressing gives you-----/man/

Compressing the sounds means they will say them faster which will bring out the word.

Introduce several 3 letter words.

Blending should be a daily exercise for the children. If you do this consistently, by second term, most of the children in your class will be reading simple words.

Remember never to introduce words that do not follow the phonological pattern. 

Example: the, may: in ‘may’, the letter ‘a’ does not have the /a:/ sound. It has the letter name which is a. so, don’t introduce such words so as not to confuse their young minds.

Such words will be introduced when they start learning sight words.

  COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY NURSERY 2 TERM 1

LESSON 4: PARTS OF SPEECH

There are 8 parts of speech in the English language. These 8 parts of speech is a way to describe the function of words in the English language. 

The knowledge of the parts of speech is what will help the children to know how words are joined together to make sentences that are both grammatically correct and readable.   

The eight parts of speech are: noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

In this lesson, the focus will be for the children to know the names of the 8 parts of speech. Give it a rhythm for easy and faster learning.

 

PROMPTING QUESTION:        What are the 8 parts of speech?

RESPONSE:                              8 parts of speech are: noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, interjection.

 

 COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY NURSERY 2 TERM 1 

LESSON 5: SENTENCES

 

Before going into treating the parts of speech, it is important the children understand what a sentence is and how to make sentences.

The children should know that letters make up a word and words make up a sentence.  As the children are beginning to learn how to read through blending of sounds practice, it is also very important for them to understand that those single words they sound can be joined together to get sentences. This idea will help them to develop the right attitude to fast reading.

  

 

PROMPTING QUESTION:         What is a sentence?

 

RESPONSE:                              A sentence is a group of words that make a complete meaning.

 

 

LESSON 6: MAKING SENTENCES

 

At this stage, the children are not writing the sentences because they can not spell yet. The emphasis is on them making sentences. This is for them to really understand what a sentence is.

You can give a key word to the children and ask them to say something about the word. Example: “class”: make a sentence with ‘class’?

  COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY NURSERY 2 TERM 1

Allow the children to explore and reason out what to say by themselves. It does not matter how silly the sentences are.

Give them several words. 

Introducing the concept of subject, object and verb as major ingredients of a sentence will be too complex for them. So, just allow them to make sentences--------------the thrust is for them to be able to join many words together to create a meaning. 

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