Daily Lesson Plan -- Unit 3

My Family and I

Subject: English | Class: 1 | Series: Leeds (SNC 2020)

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Overview

This unit features a story about a boy named Asad and his family. Students learn about vowels and consonants, parts of the human body, common nouns and proper nouns, initial sounds, and three-letter CVC words. The oral communication section practises greetings and self-introduction.

Learning Objectives

• Use pre-reading strategies to predict the story by looking at pictures
• Interact with the text using pictures or rebus to increase understanding
• Pronounce and match initial sounds of common words with their letters
• Recognise individual sounds in a word (e.g., /p/, /i/, /n/ in pin)
• Respond to text through pantomime
• Demonstrate oral interactions in a group to introduce themselves
• Spell simple one/two-syllable words
• Recognise categories such as numbers in words
• Trace and copy familiar words
• Provide missing letters in simple words
• Recall and match common naming words with pictures
• Recognise and use substitution words (I, we, you, he, she, it, they)
• Copy and write simple one-syllable words with correct spelling

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Day 1: Reading (40 minutes)

Materials

• Textbook pages 15-16, family photos or drawings, chart paper

Warm-Up (10 minutes)

• Ask students: "How many people are in your family?"
• Show pictures of a family and name the members: father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents
• Write "My Family" on the board

Main Activity (20 minutes)

• Read the passage aloud:
  • "My name is Asad. I am six years old. I live with my parents, grandparents, one brother and one sister. I am in grade one."
  • "I get up early in the morning. I take bath and go to school. I wash my hands before I eat my food."
  • "I came back home at one o'clock. My mother guides me to do my homework. After finishing my homework, I play with my brother and sister in the lawn."
  • "We all family members have dinner together. Every night, my grandmother tells us a bedtime story."
  • "We respect each other. We live and play together. We are a happy family."
• Ask while-reading question: "What are children playing?"
• Ask post-reading question: "Which type of stories do you like to listen?"

Wrap-Up (10 minutes)

• Students tell the class about their own family (name, number of siblings)
• Emphasise family values: respect, togetherness, helping each other

Differentiation

• Support: Help students form simple sentences: "I have ___ brothers."
• Extension: Students draw their family and label each member

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Day 2: Comprehension, Vowels & Consonants, Body Parts (40 minutes)

Materials

• Textbook pages 17-18, body parts chart, letter cards

Warm-Up (5 minutes)

• Quick review: "What is the name of the boy in the story?" (Asad)

Main Activity -- Comprehension (10 minutes)

• Answer comprehension questions:
  1. How many brothers does Asad have? (One)
  2. When does Asad come back from school? (One o'clock)
  3. What do you like to play?

Main Activity -- Vowels and Consonants (15 minutes)

• Teach: "In the English language, there are two types of letters: vowels and consonants."
• Vowels: a, e, i, o, u
• Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
• Exercise: Circle the vowels and underline the consonants in a set of letters
• Practise identifying vowels and consonants in words

Main Activity -- Parts of Human Body (10 minutes)

• Show the body parts diagram: eye, mouth, nose, neck, forehead, hand, finger, leg, foot, toes
• Say each word and have students point to the body part on themselves
• Fill in the missing letters: mo___th, fin___er, n___se, for___head, l___g, to___s

Wrap-Up (5 minutes)

• Quick vowel/consonant quiz: teacher says a letter, students say "vowel" or "consonant"

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Day 3: Common/Proper Nouns, Sounds & Oral Communication (40 minutes)

Materials

• Textbook pages 18-20, picture cards, CVC word cards

Warm-Up (5 minutes)

• Review vowels (a, e, i, o, u) with a quick chant

Main Activity -- Common and Proper Nouns (10 minutes)

• Common noun: a general name of a person, animal, place, or thing (boy, lion, mountain, pizza)
• Proper noun: a specific name (Ayesha, Rex, Asia, Pepsi)
• Exercise: Circle common noun and underline proper noun in sentences:
  1. Aden goes to school daily.
  2. Karachi is the largest city of Pakistan.
  3. The name of my horse is Black Beauty.
  4. My mother always cooks fresh vegetables.
  5. Rooh Afza is my favourite drink.

Main Activity -- Initial Sounds & CVC Words (15 minutes)

• Match pictures with beginning letters (f, g, i, k, l, m)
• Read individual sounds of CVC words: p-i-n (pin), r-a-t (rat), b-i-n (bin), t-u-b (tub), c-o-t (cot), h-e-n (hen)
• Students blend the sounds to say each word

Main Activity -- Oral Communication (10 minutes)

• Practise the dialogue:
  • "Assalam-o-Alaikum!" / "Wa Alaikum Assalam!"
  • "I am Ali. How are you?" / "I am Sadaf. I am fine."
• Role-play the dialogue with class fellows

Wrap-Up (5 minutes)

• Recap: vowels vs. consonants, common vs. proper nouns, CVC words

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Teaching Tips (from textbook)

• Do model reading of the text with correct pronunciation and intonation
• Ask students to introduce themselves and their families in front of the class
• Encourage them to answer the given questions orally
• Tell students the initial sound is the beginning sound of a word
• Encourage students to say individual sounds of three-letter words first, then join sounds to make a word
• Divide students into pairs and ask them to greet and introduce each other