Use of Capital Letters, Punctuation Marks Such as Full Stop and Comma Primary 3 (Basic 3) Term 2 Week 2 English Structure

ENGLISH STUDIES

SECOND TERM  

WEEK 

PRIMARY 

THEME – STRUCTURE 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Structure, Content Column Primary 3 (Basic 3) Term 2 Week 1 English Studies

 

TOPIC – USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS, PUNCTUATION MARKS – FULL STOP, COMMA, ETC.

LEARNING AREA

1. Introduction

2. Use of Capital Letters

3. Use of Punctuation Marks

4. Lesson Evaluation and Weekly Assessment (Test)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES 

By the end of the lesson, most pupils should have attained the following objectives –

1. get an understanding that capital letters and higher cases mean the same thing.

2. use capital letters/higher cases correctly.

3. use the punctuation marks e.g. comma, semi-colon, exclamation marks, etc. correctly.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The pupils can identify some of the punctuation marks.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

1. Selected passages from course book.

2. Sample sentences showing the various uses of capital/higher cases and the punctuation marks.

METHOD OF TEACHING

Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. Scheme of Work

2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

CONTENT OF THE LESSON  

INTRODUCTION

A capital letter is the taller and bigger version of a letter (like A, B, C), as opposed to the smaller version, which is called a lowercase letter (like a, b, c).

CAPITAL/UPPERCASE LETTERS

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

SMALL/LOWERCASE LETTERS

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z

WHEN TO USE CAPITAL LETTERS

Capital letters are used,

1. In the names of people, places or brands.

For examples,

• Name of people – Segun, Michael, Seun, etc.

• Name of place – Badia, Apapa, Lagos State, Nigeria, Africa, etc.

• Name of brand – Dangote, Brewery, Emel, etc.

2. At the beginning of a sentence. 

For example – The boy is good.

3. In personal pronoun – I 

4. In abbreviations. 

For examples – Local Government Education Area – LGEA

5. Titles for people

For examples – Pastor Adeoye, Alfa Sule, etc.

PUNCTUATION MARKS

Punctuation marks are marks such as full stop, comma, or question mark used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

FOCUS PUNCTUATION MARKS

The use of uses of full stop and comma.

FULL STOP ( . ) 

The full stop (.) is mark the end of a sentence.

That’s, a complete statement.

For example – All their meals arrived at the same time.

COMMA ( , ) 

The comma is a mark used for listing a series of items respectively and for separating ideas or clauses in sentences.

For example – Punctuation marks are the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, quotation marks, and ellipsis. Following their correct usage will make your writing easier to read and more appealing.

CLASS EXERCISE 

it rained heavily yesterday the roofs of many houses were blown off father came home wet he was shivering with cold what am I going to do.

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps – he/she,

1. Revises the previous lesson based on the pupil’s related knowledge or experience.

Pupil’s Activities – Participate actively in lesson review.

2. Writes sample sentences using higher cases, punctuation marks such as full stop and comma.

Pupil’s Activities – Read the examples given by the teacher.

3. Explains various uses of full stop and comma.

Pupil’s Activities – Listen to teacher’s explanation.

4. Asks pupils to give similar examples.

Pupil’s Activities – Make similar sentences of their own.

5. Asks them to write their own examples in their books.

6. Do several exercises on the use of capital letters and punctuation marks.

7. Summarizes the lesson on the board.

Pupil’s Activities – Participate actively in lesson summary and write as instructed.

CONCLUSION

To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

NEXT LESSON

LESSON EVALUATION 

Ask pupils to use the capital letters/higher cases and punctuation marks correctly.

WEEKLY ASSESSMENT

ATTEMPT ALL THE QUESTIONS

it rained heavily yesterday the roofs of many houses were blown off father came home wet he was shivering with cold what am I going to do.