96003919 Sacha Cherrington , 2010

Exploring Language Planner:

Capital Letters and full stops
Curriculum Areas Context Curriculum level 3
LA1 English Capital letters and full
stops
Achievement Objectives/Indicators
LA1 Listening Reading and Viewing
Recognises the connections between written, visual and oral language.
Select and uses a range of language and text processing and comprehension
Thinks critically about texts with developing confidence
LA2: Strands: Purposes and Audience, Ideas, Language Features, Structure
Values Key Competency aspects & dispositions:
Excellence; innovation, inquiry and Thinking
curiosity Relating to others
Using language symbols and texts
Prior knowledge/learning
Knowledge about capital letters and full stops; previous descriptive writing about themselves

Aspects of Inquiry Process

Exploration
Reflection and Evaluation

Learning Intentions Success Criteria

We are learning to:
 Read others work critically
 Look at comprehension of text
 Proof read writing
 Add capital letters and full stops
 Look for other possible language edits
We will know we can do this when
 We can successfully proof read
work and add capital letters and full
stops
Evaluate how we determined where the
capital letters and full stops are to go

Assessment Strategies
Initial proofreading with the class as a
whole, then move off into groups to
evaluate and find where capital letters
and full stops go in the text.
Mark as a full group at the end of the
session.

Resources
Pencil, paper, proofreading text, discussion with teacher

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Introduction 10mins Children identify relationship between

Teacher introduces topic of capital letters and full capital letters, full stops and written text.
stops. Children identify sentence structure of
Read with the class the written brief, and talk about written piece of work.
where possible capital letters and full stops could go
Body 35 mins
Children move off into groups and explore possible Children look to identify differences in
language solutions to the written body of work they are language uses throughout the text in
given: order to identify the order of sentence
Body of work is a written description of the teacher,
structure and addition of full stops
including the following questions:
and commas.
What is your name?
Where do you live?
What city do you live in?
How many people are in your family and who are
they?
Do you have any pets?
Who are your friends?
What is your favourite tv programme?
Body of work contains no capital letters or full stops
and also two suprise areas where commas need to be
introduced.
Class works as groups to proof read and edit the work.
Closure 15mins
Class bring together with their proof reading and
then as a class go over the editing together.
As a class discuss how they knew where to put
the capital letters and full stops eg. Proper nouns,
sentence starters, etc.

Lesson Evaluation and Reflection

How interested in the lesson were the children?
How well did they attempt their proof reading and
editing
How much conversation went on about the topic?
How much conversation went on surrounding the
text? Specifically look for conversations involving
comprehension and language usage, text, editing
and understanding