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Lesson Plan of Punctuation PDF
Lesson Plan of Punctuation PDF
English Grade IV
Students’ Learning Outcomes
Material / Resources
Board, chalk/marker, chart paper and textbook.
Worm up activity
Ask the students where do we use full stop (.), question mark (?), apostrophe (‘), exclamation
mark (!) a comma (,), inverted commas (“- “), a contraction (/) and a hyphen (-).
Ask the students to point to the right punctuation mark following these hints:
If I am very excited, which one will show my feeling (!), (?).
If I want to know something which one will I use (?), (;).
What will I put at the end of a sentence? (.), (-).
Which one shows a short pause in the middle of a sentence (,), (.)?
Now call the students on the board in turns to guess and write what each
short form stands for. Write the full word or words on each line.
Help the students with spellings.
1. Mon. _________________(Monday)
2. Kg __________________ (Kilogram)
3. Thu. ___________________(Thursday)
4. Mr. ___________________(Mister)
5. Dec.__________________(December)
6. Cm. __________________(Centimeter)
7. Sec. __________________(Second)
8. L. ___________________ (Letter)
9. St. __________________ (Street)
10. Dr. __________________(Doctor)
Development
Activity 1
Dive the class into pairs.
Ask them to find out any two sentences from their English textbook with the following
punctuation marks.
Activity 2
Choose a passage from the textbook before the lesson. Passage must have commas, full stops,
inverted commas, question marks and exclamation marks.
Then ask the students to copy the passage from the board in their notebooks and insert
punctuation marks and capital letters.
(Did you see the rabbit go down that hole said the farmer no said sara look over there by that big
tree said the farmer oh yes the rabbit has just jumped out again said sara well it might not be
the same rabbit exclaimed the farmer there are lots of rabbits in the hole)
Solved passage (For teacher’s reference only):
“Did you see the rabbit go down that hole?” said the farmer. “No”, said Sara. “Look over there by
that big tree”, said the farmer. “Oh yes! The rabbit has just jumped out again!” said Sara. “Well,
it might not be the same rabbit!” exclaimed the farmer, “There are lots of rabbits in that hole”.
Activity 3
Explain the concept of hyphen (-) and draw the following table on the board and ask the students
to match the words in the first column and write the new word using hyphen (-):
1. Basket backed ___________
2. Make off ______________
3. T up ______________
4. Warm ball ____________
5. Half up _____________
6. Baby known _________
7. Well cot ____________
8. Take shirt ___________
9. Well understanding ___
10. Mis done __________
Answer key:
1. Basket backed _____Basket- ball
2. Make off ________Make- up
3. T up ________ T- shirt
4. Warm ball _______Warm-up
5. Half up ________Half-backed
6. Baby known ____ Baby-cot
7. Well cot _______ Well-done
8. Take shirt _______Take-off
9. Well understanding –Well-known
10. Mis done ________Mis-understanding
Highlight the use of apostrophe(‘) here to make the contraction in written and spoken English:
Do not Don’t
Does not Doesn’t
Should not Shouldn’t
Would not Wouldn’t
Has not Hasn’t
Have not Haven’t
Was not Wasn’t
Were not Weren’t
Pronoun +to be +would/well
I I am I’m I’d I’ll
You You are you’re You’d you’ll
We We are we’re We’d we’ll
They They are they’re They’d they’ll
He He is he’s He’d he’ll
She She is she’s She’d she’ll
It It is it’s It’d it’ll
There There is there’s There’d there’ll
That That is that’s That’d that’ll
Sum up / Conclusion
Assessment
Assess the students’ understanding and learning through their responses.
Follow up
Ask the students to make a list of 5 contractions, abbreviations and hyphened words in their
notebooks.