Specific Learning Outcomes 

By the end of the sub strand,  the learner should be able to:-

a) recognise  the sets  of nouns denoting male and female within the family setting,

•  use the sets  of nouns denoting male and female within the family to communicate effectively,   
• appreciate the gender  sets in communicating effectively about family members. 

Suggested Learning Experiences 

•     Learners talk about  male and female members of the family  to illustrate  the concept of gender sets.

• Learners name the members of a nuclear family based on a picture/video clip/ photo. 
• In groups learners are guided to talk about: the brother to their father or mother, the sister to their father or mother, the father to their father or mother, the mother to their father or mother.

Key Inquiry Question(s)

1) Which word would you replace with mother sister/aunt?

2) Which word would you replace with father/ brother/uncle?

Core Competences to be developed:  Communication and collaboration, learning to learn using different references for male and female members of the family.

Link to PCIs:  Citizenship; social cohesion; focus on family

Life skills: Self-awareness  based on gender

Links to other subjects : Religious Education: Roles of male and female family members

Suggested non-formal activity to support learning:  Recite poems about male and female characters during their free time. 

Suggested Learning Resources: Charts, pictures/ photographs and models of  members of the family, audio-visual recordings of dialogues with sentence structures on male and female members of the family.

Link  to Values: Respect for  both male and female members of the female.

Suggested Community Service Learning activities: Seeking knowledge about male and female relatives from their parents or guardians 

Suggested assessment: Oral questions, portfolio, observation

Suggested Formative Assessment Rubric

Exceeding Expectations

Learner constructs correct simple sentences about male and female members of the nuclear family, and a few members of the extended family, with a lot of ease. 

Meeting Expectations 

Learner constructs correct simple sentences about male and female members of the nuclear family.

Approaching Expectations

Learner sometimes constructs correct simple sentences about some male and female members of the nuclear family.

Below Expectations

Learner communicates correctly about a few male and female members of the nuclear family.