Basic 5 Ghanaian Language Term 1 Week 7 Lesson Plan

Write down a couple of words on cards. Make sure learners are familiar with the words. Divide the class in to groups. One person from each group comes up in front to pick and act the word. The group to get the highest score wins! Engage learners to play the “What letter am I writing” game. Put learners into groups of two. The teacher writes a letter in the air. Learners makes the letter sound and tell the teacher the sound that has been written Ask learners questions to review their understanding in the previous lesson. Engage learners to play games and sing familiar rhymes to begin the lesson.

Discuss with learners types of writing and explain what narrative writing is. Give examples of narrative writing to learners to examine. Discuss with learners the structure and features of narrative writing. Assist learners to recognize the use of commas, full stops, and question marks appropriately in narrative writing given. Allow learners to write a narrative of about two hundred words. Give a long narrative writing piece to learners. Discuss the content of the narrative writing with learners. Allow learners to recognize the exclamation marks used in the given piece. Let learners read the narrative piece in their groups. Assist learners to understand the use of exclamation marks in narrative writing appropriately. With a given narrative writing piece. Allow learners to discuss in groups the punctuations used in the narrative writing. Assist learners to know the use of the colon and quotation marks in narrative writing appropriately through discussion. For this activity, learners use printed photographs of a local market or festival, locally made story-planning cards and exercise books and pencils to organise ideas from a familiar Ghanaian scene and write the required narrative or report.

Use questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt Learners to read and spell the key words on the board