Capital Letters Lesson Plan
There are two capital letter lesson plans below. Each one ideal for using with your KS1 learners. One for interactive whiteboards and the other for individual computer / iPad / Chromebook use. There are also links to printable resources that can help you extend the lesson. If you need a more advanced lesson plan for more able pupils then consider using our advanced capital letters lesson plan.
Interactive Whiteboard Lesson
Overview
The capital letters punctuation game is required for this interactive whiteboard lesson plan, see the following points for an overview on using the game.
- Read sentence on screen
- Identify error in each sentence (no capital letter)
- Click and drag looking glass to place capital letter correctly
- Sentence is automatically marked
- Click and drag a part of Zara’s dream into her dream bubble, or try again
- Repeat for all sentences
Context of Lesson
Pupils to read sentence, identify where a capital letter is missing, and correct each sentence appropriately.
Resources Required
The following resources are required for this capital letter lesson plan. Capital letters punctuation game, interactive whiteboard, small individual whiteboards with pens or paper and pencils, small cards showing upper and lowercase ‘a’, prepared worksheet for homework
Learning Objectives
This capital letters lesson plan has the following learning objectives.
- To use a capital letter at the start of a sentence.
Using the Punctuation Game
Please see the following steps for using the game with this capital letters lesson plan.
- Teacher starts this capital letters lesson by showing a lower case ‘a’ and an upper case ‘A’ on small cards. Ask pupils to give the correct name for an upper case letter, i.e. capital letter.
- Teacher to explain that a capital letter is always used at the start of a sentence.
- Teacher to load ‘Zara’s capital letter punctuation game’ on to the interactive whiteboard and explain to pupils that Zara the wildebeest is dreaming about ‘space travel’ (again!). Zara would love to see a space station. If we help Zara with her capital letters perhaps we can make her dream come true!
- Teacher to start the game. The class reads the sentence - what’s wrong with this sentence?
- Teacher to model clicking and dragging the looking glass to add a capital letter to the sentence.
- Class to read the sentence again - is the sentence correct now? Teacher to model clicking and dragging a part of Zara’s dream into her dream bubble.
- Continue the game choosing different pupils for reading the sentence and then to use the looking glass to correct it. Involve as many pupils as possible. If time allows play the game again using different pupils.
PLENARY
Teacher to write a lower case letter on the board. Using their individual whiteboards/paper and pencils, pupils to write its capital letter. Pupils to hold up their boards for teacher to check answers. Teacher to write one sentence, without a capital letter at the beginning, on the board. Pupils to use their whiteboards to re-write the sentence with a capital letter in the correct place. Pupils to hold up their boards for checking. Teaching assistant to support less able pupils by scribing sentence for them, pupil to add capital letter.
Literacy Homework
Using the prepared worksheet, teacher to ask pupils to re-write the two sentences adding a capital letter in the correct place.
Individual Computer or iPad / Computer Suite Lesson
Overview
Please see the following points on using the game with this lesson plan.
- Read sentence on screen
- Identify error in each sentence (no capital letter)
- Click/touch and drag looking glass to place capital letter correctly
- Sentence is automatically marked
- Click and drag a part of Zara’s dream into her dream bubble, or try again
- Repeat for all sentences
Context of Lesson
Pupils to read sentence, identify where a capital letter is missing, and correct each sentence appropriately.
Resources Required
This capital letters lesson plan requires the following resources. Capital letters punctuation game, interactive whiteboard, individual computers, small cards with sentences on (sentence 1, sentence 2, sentence 3, drawing programme, prepared worksheet for homework
Learning Objectives
This lesson plan aims to achieve the following learning objective.
- To use a capital letter at the start of a sentence.
Using the Punctuation Game
- Teacher to hold up a prepared sentence (sentence 1) which is missing its capital letter at the beginning. Ask pupils to identify what is wrong.
- Teacher to select a pupil to come and write the correct letter on the board. Class to say whether the letter is correct.
- Teacher to explain that we always use capital letters at the start of sentences.
- Teacher to load ‘Zara’s capital letter punctuation game’ on to the interactive whiteboard and explain to pupils that Zara the wildebeest is dreaming about ‘space travel’ (again!). Zara would love to see a space station. If we help Zara with her capital letters perhaps we can make her dream come true!
- Teacher to start the game. Class to read the sentence - what’s wrong with this sentence?
- Teacher to model clicking and dragging the looking glass to add a capital letter to the sentence.
- The class reads sentence again - is the sentence correct now? Teacher to model clicking and dragging a part of Zara’s dream into her dream bubble.
- Explain to pupils that they will now complete the game on their computers or iPads working with a partner. Pupils to take turns reading the sentences and using the mouse.
- Teacher and teaching assistant to ensure that ‘Zara’s capital letter game’ is ready to play on pupils’ computers / iPads or Chromebooks.
- Teacher and teaching assistant to move around the class during the lesson to ensure that the game is being played correctly and that pupils are reading the sentences and working cooperatively.
- Any pupils that complete the game quickly to use a drawing programme and work together to draw Zara’s space station. Teaching assistant to help pupils access the drawing programme on their computer or iPad. Alternatively, quick pupils can move on to further Zara Capital Letter Games, e.g. game 2 or 3 etc. which are available on Club Roy.
PLENARY
Repeat the activity from the start of the lesson using prepared sentences (sentence 2, sentence 3).
Literacy Homework
This lesson plan comes with extra resources which can be used for homework or for extending the lesson. Using the prepared worksheet, teacher to ask pupils to put a ring around the incorrect lower case letter and to add its capital letter over the top - as if they were marking the sentence like their teacher would!