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Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work
SCHEME OF WORK: NON-TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 1)

LESSON: 10 (Language Arts 2) MAIN SKILL FOCUS: Language Arts THEME: World of Self, Family and Friends
WEEK: TOPIC: Welcome! CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Creativity & LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Modal can statements

Imagination

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES

Main Skill Main Skill Pre-lesson Action flash cards Differentiate learning
Language Arts Language Arts 1. Play a game to review vocabulary and the form I can/can’t… Can you? using action (picture or words) according to the needs of your
5.3 5.3.1 cards. Make sure to include the verbs from the song: run, jump, swim, hop, skip. You Online song (see pupils and class. Please see
Express an Respond may need to pre-teach some of these words if your pupils are not familiar with them Learning Outline) the seven differentiation
imaginative imaginatively and so check first. strategies listed in the
response to intelligibly through 2. Give each pupil a card. They look at the card and mime the action, either as I can or I Lines of the song introduction. Please also
literary texts creating simple can’t (E.g. play chess – pupil mimes someone trying to play but looking confused). cut up (in verses) consider the following:
action songs on Other pupils should say either She/He can … or He/She can’t … (Same example: Plan how to group pupils for
familiar topics. She can’t play chess.). Pupils keep the cards. this task. If your class has
Other imaginative Lesson delivery mixed levels of proficiency,
responses as 3. Ask pupils to watch the video of the song. They should check their cards (from pre- then try to group pupils so
appropriate
there is a range of proficiency
Complementary lesson stage). If they hear their word, they should hold up their card. Play the song: in each group. However,
Skill Complementary http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/i-can-run encourage all pupils to
Language Arts Skill 4. Ask pupils to listen to the song again and copy the actions they hear. Play the song participate equally by sharing
5.1 Language Arts again. out the lines of the song at the
Enjoy and 5.1.1 performance stage.
appreciate In addition to Year 2 5. Put pupils into groups of five. Give each group a verse of the cut up lines of the song.
rhymes, poems text types: simple They divide the lines between them, one each. Play the song again. Pupils order the For fast finishing groups, ask
and songs poems lines as they hear them. them to write a second verse.
6. Feed back by having groups sing the song in the order of verses (with or without the
video playing).
7. Use two action cards to show pupils how to create new verses of the song. Give each
group time to create a new verse using different action words.
8. Groups perform their verses. Provide plenty of positive feedback on their efforts.
Post-lesson
9. Play the song video again and encourage pupils to sing along and mime.

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