An interactive activity to explore how compounds are made
In this activity, students work with an interactive smart board display to build compound words.
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Nouns which refer to a person may refer to a man or to a male person like father or to a woman or to a female person like mother. There is a difference in gender.
To explore the meaning of simple, everyday nouns and how they relate to your experience of the world.
Things like a chair, a fork, a dog, a horse, a house, a kennel, a girl, a nurse, a boy and a policeman are something that we can see and touch. They exist in reality and are observable. The names for them are concrete nouns. Other nouns refer to things which we cannot see or touch like happiness or time. Such nouns are abstract nouns.
To increase student awareness of the sound sequences in one syllable words.
To highlight that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and letters.
To practise dividing words into syllables.
Lesson plan
In this lesson, students will work through three activities. The first two involve categorising words according to syllable structure and number of syllables, while the third activity is a class competition requiring students to draw on their vocabulary knowledge.
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