EDU 70161 Assignment: Lesson Plan for Teaching Compound Words

This document is a lesson plan designed for an English class focusing on compound words. The lesson plan, intended for Class 3 students, covers the topic of compound words, including closed, open, and hyphenated compound words. The learning objectives outline the students' ability to identify and understand different types of compound words. The plan details a 60-minute lesson divided into readiness, engagement, and mastery phases. The readiness phase focuses on introducing the concept, engagement involves group activities with picture cards to form compound words, and the mastery phase includes an individual assignment matching items to create compound words. The lesson plan also includes success criteria and a reflection section for evaluating its effectiveness and suggesting improvements. The assignment is part of the EDU 70161 course, focusing on teaching learners in the 21st century.

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LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Subject: English Class: 3 Duku Number of Students: 30
Unit: Book Hunt Date: 5th of September Time: 10am – 11am
Topic: Compound words
Prior Knowledge
Students should already know:
1. Noun and Pronoun
2. Verb and Adverb
3. Preposition and Adjectives
Learning Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to tell what are:
1. Closed Compound Words. Closed compound words are those words which are composed of two
words that do not have any space between them. Such as Sunflower, Moonlight comes under closed
compound words.
2. Open compound words. Open compound words are those words which has a small space between the
two words. Words such as Full Moon, ice crème, table fan, police officer comes under open compound
words.
3. Hyphenated Compound Word. Hyphenated Compound words are those words which has a small das
between the two words. Words such as one-half, full-time, warm-up, x-ray all comes under the
Hyphenated compound words.
Success Criteria:
1. The success criteria depend on how well and clearly the teacher has explained the concept of
compound words to the students.
2. How innovate and creative was the teacher in his or her way of teaching.
3. How well was the teacher able to connect the concept of compound words with other the lessons.
Time Learning Phases Rationale (optional) Resources
30
minutes
Readiness
In this phase the teacher will try and talk to the
student. He or she will try and find out about
their idea of compound words. What do the
students think a compound word is? The
teachers will then try and explain what exactly
a compound word is. He or she will then try
and explain the different types of compound
word.
The various
innovative
tools that can
be used for
the following
lesson can be
the picture
cards where
two pictures
can be joined
to form a new
innovative
compound
word. Audio
Visual media
could also be
used for this.
Pictures could
also be shown
through the
projector on a
screen. For
example
Picture of a
sun and flower
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combine to
form
sunflower.
15
minutes
Engagement
In this phase, the students would be divided in
the groups of two and they will be asked to
write down three examples of Closed
Compound Words, Open compound words
and hyphenated compound words with the
help of picture cards that will be provided to
them. This will not only help the children to
understand the concept of compound words
but will also increase their vocabulary.
Picture cards
along will
crayons and a
blank sheet of
paper will be
provided to
the children.
15
minutes
Mastery
In this phase, individual student will be given
an assignment where they will be sheet of
paper with two columns containing different
name place animal and things. The children
will be required to match the items of the two
columns in order to form a compound word. It
will like match the followings.
Paper with the
assignment
along with
crayons will
be provided to
the children.
Reflections(Choose 1 aspect of the lesson to reflect on – positive or negative one. It can be written in
point form – not more than 1 page)
1. Has the lesson achieved the planned learning objectives? Provide reasons.
2. What worked well in the lesson? Would you keep what went well in your next lesson? Explain.
3. What didn’t work well? What do you need to improve if you were to deliver a similar lesson next time?
Explain.
4. How did your experience in conducting this lesson inform the studied professional practice? Why do
you say so?
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Answers:
1. The following lesson plan will achieve the required learning objectives as it involves using creative and
innovative ways to engage the students who are basically children. The students were actively taking part
in the fun activities which does not make learning fun and easy but also help hen to bond with one
another and make new friends.
2. The use of different picture cards along with the introduction of the different fun activities has really
worked with the students. If my next lesson requires the same innovative and interactive teaching
methods, I would definitely keep up with the same teaching techniques.
3. There was a time constrain. If only more time could be provided for the fun activities.
4. Overall it was fun and enriching experience to be working with the children. It was my first time working
with them.
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