Lesson Planning for Understand and locate some Compound Words from various Text Sources Subject English Grade 4th

 

Lesson Planning for Understand and locate some Compound Words from various Text Sources

Subject English

Grade 4^th

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Understand and locate some compound words from various text sources.

Information for Teachers

• Compound words are formed by joining two or more simple words to create a new word with a different meaning, as; ‘air + plane’ = airplane, play + ground = playground
• Compound words are words that are formed from complete words and not prefixes or suffixes: week + end = weekend but week + ly is not a compound word.
• Studying compound words is fun, helps students understand the language, builds an interest in words and will help prepare students to learn prefixes, suffixes and word roots.
• While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also consult textbook at all steps where and when applicable.

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk/marker, duster, textbook, notebooks

Introduction

• Tell the students that today you are going to help them learn a trick to increase their vocabulary

• Remind them addition sums and signs of + and =.
• Introduce compound words to the students by writing following words as sums;

1. Star + fish = star fish
2. Cup + cake = cupcake
3. Rain + water = rainwater
4. Rain + drop = raindrop

• Write the following words on the writing board or make flashcards of these words, as; playground, breakfast, lunchbox
• Ask the students to break up these words to make two different words e.g. lunch and box.
• Tell the students these words are compound words with the help of above mentioned information
• Ask them to look up more compound words from their textbook (Note of teacher: please select an appropriate text with compound words from the textbook, which itself is a compound word.

Development

Activity 1

• Write the following exercise on the writing board and ask the students to copy in their notebooks.
• Tell them to work in pairs and combine the word on the left with another word in the list to make a compound word.

1. Hand +_________    (End, day)

• Compound word: Weekend

2. Sun + __________ (shine set flower)

• Compound word:  Sunshine set flower

3. Bed + ________   (room)

• Compound word: Bedroom

4. Butter + ______   (fly)

• Compound word: Butterfly

Activity 2

• Ask the students to copy the exercise in their notebooks.
• Tell them to work in pairs and identify the compound words, as;
• Handshake, suitcase, beehive, bedtime, newspapers

1. Shake hands: _______________
2. Time for bed: ______________
3. Paper filled with news ________
4. Bees live in ________________
5. Pack cloth in this ___________

Conclusion / Sum up

1. What are compound words?

• Tell some compound words.

Assessment

• Write the correct answers on the writing board and ask the students to do the self-correction.
• Take rounds of the class and ask the students about their scores.
• Ask the students to write the wrong sentences again.
• Teacher is also required to involve the students in solving the problems given in the exercise at end of unit / chapter.

Follow up

• Ask the students to find out five compound words from their English books and make one more word from the root word of that compound word.