FORM2A-4 October4th, 2022

LESSON PLAN-FORM-2

Date: October 06th, 2022

Subject: Communication Studies
Topic: Punctuation-hyphen
Class: Form 2A Group 4
Ability: Mixed

Objectives: Pupils should be able to:

 Construct sentences using hyphen in sentences/passage given.
 Identify Hyphens in sentences and their purpose
 Illustrate the use of Hyphens.

Prior Knowledge: Pupils are familiar with other punctuation marks. E.g., full stops, commas,
question marks, exclamation marks...

Materials: Sentence Strips, Text books, song

Introduction: Teacher have pupils listen to hyphen song. Pupils sing-along-song.

Transitional Statement: Today we are going to look at hyphens and how they are used.

Development:
Step 1: Teacher explains to class what is a hyphen.
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Teacher provides examples and non-examples of hyphenated words in sentences to

pupils.
Step 2: Teacher provide pupils with sentences with examples and non -examples of
hyphenated words in sentences. Have a pupils work in pairs read the sentences
and say whether they are hyphenated words or not and why?

Step 3: As a whole class teacher presents sentences and students (individually) correct the
form of the word.

Assessment: Pupils will construct four sentences using hyphens to join parts of a compound
word.

Conclusion/Evaluation: Pupils say what are hyphens used for and when its used. Using hyphens
to link multi-word but single entities (such as compound adjectives and compound nouns) make
your text easier to read, and it showcases your writing skills.

A hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark used to join the separate parts of a compound word. A
hyphen is a joiner.

A hyphen is used:
 To join the words of a compound adjective (e.g., "five-page" document)
 To join the words of compound noun (e.g., "cooking-oil")
 To join a prefix to a word (e.g., "re-examine").

Homework: Write six sentences using hypens

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