Grade: Two

Subject: Language Arts

Duration: 1 Hour
Topic Ideas and Opinion
STRAND: Listening and Speaking

Attainment Target:
 Communicate with confidence and competence for different purposes and audiences,
using SJE and JC appropriately and creatively.
 Listen to, recall, understand and respond to speakers’ messages, whether implicit or
explicit.
 Recognise, value and make distinctions between home language and SJE to
improve/acquire language and literacy competences.
 Explain and comment on speakers’ use of language, including use of SJE and JC, and
their use of vocabulary, grammar and other features.

Objectives: At the end of the lesson students should be able to:

1. Listen to the ideas and opinions of others

Skills:
 Express thoughts and opinions

Materials: Favourite toys or books or any personal items

Technology:

Engage
Students will sing listening song, then be engaged in a show and tell to share their ideas and
opinions about their favourite toy or personal items.

Teacher will model asking open ended questions using who, what, why, when and where to pull
responses from students.

Explore
Within groups students will also comment on or ask questions of their peers. Students will create
a question sheet using who, what, why, when and where.

Explain
Teacher will explain to students that when we use words like who, what, when, why, where and
why to ask questions we usually end with the question mark. (?)

Extend
Students will write about their favourite toy or personal item and place the writing in their
journal.