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Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work
SCHEME OF WORK: NON-TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 4)

LESSON: 58 (Language Arts 11) MAIN SKILL(S) FOCUS: Language Arts THEME: World of Knowledge
WEEK: TOPIC: Year in, year out CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Creativity and LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Adjectives, nouns and verbs

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CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES
In this lesson, pupils will create a diamond poem about the hot season in their area.
Main Skill Main Skill Diamond poem (see Differentiate learning
Language Arts Language Arts Pre-lesson below) on the board according to the needs of
5.3 5.3.1 1. Choose an appropriate pre-lesson activity from the list in the introduction that or as a handout your pupils and class.
Express an Respond suits your pupils’ needs and interests and that will review language and prepare Hot season diamond Please see the seven
imaginative imaginatively and pupils for the lesson. poem template (see differentiation strategies
response to intelligibly through below) listed in the introduction.
literary texts creating simple Lesson delivery
action songs on 2. Show pupils the diamond poem (see below), check or teach the meaning of
familiar topics. skating and icy, and ask them to guess if the missing words at the top and bottom
are Winter or Hot season.
Other imaginative 3. Check the answer [Winter].
responses as 4. Elicit the pattern of the diamond poem with pupils. This is:
appropriate.
Complementary Noun
Complementary Skill Adjective Adjective
Skill Writing Verb Verb Verb
Writing 4.3.2 Noun Noun Noun Noun
4.3 Spell an increased Verb Verb Verb
Communicate range of familiar Adjective Adjective
with appropriate high frequency Noun
language form words accurately 5. Write Hot season on the board and the headings nouns, adjectives, verbs.
and style for a in guided writing 6. Ask pupils to brainstorm vocabulary about the hot season where they live, and
range of purposes write their suggestions on the board under the appropriate heading.
in print and digital 7. Ask pupils to work in pairs. Give them the hot season diamond template as a
media handout, or ask them to copy from the board.
8. Ask the pairs to make their own diamond poem about the hot season. They can
use words from the board and their own ideas.
Post-lesson
9. Make groups of 4 or 6 and ask pupils to read their diamond poems to each other.

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