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The Little Red Hen

Objectives

To split to spell a word.

To recall the events in a story.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Large piece of paper | Pencil and pens | Ruled lines on blank paper

📊 The Little Red Hen PowerPoint | Pie Corbett telling The Little Red Hen story (YouTube) | 📄 Story Map Examples | Rocket Rescue - Phase 2 (Phonics Play)

📄 Sound Flashcards 2 | 📄 Sound Actions | 📄 Blank Flashcards

Vocabulary

Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary.

Today's Lesson

What to Get Ready

Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.

Phonics - Quick Fire

Quick recognition of sounds. Make sure you include the new sounds as they are introduced (‘ee’ and ‘w’ should now be part of this quick-fire activity).

Phonics - New Learning

Today’s new sound is ‘ea’ – as in ‘seat’.

Show your student the 📄 flashcard and teach your student the sound. Tell them that ‘ea’ is another way of writing the ‘ee’ sound, just like the sounds ‘y’ and ‘ee’.

Phonics - Blend to Read

real (3) | sea (2) | heat (3) | beat (3)

Phonics - Split to Spell

bean (3) | leaf (3) | lead (3) | read (3)

Phonics - Extra Support

Blending to read: ask your student to say the sounds slowly and allow them to blend together. Then they can say them faster until they can hear the word.

Splitting to spell: on the whiteboard, give your student only the sounds they need to write the word. This means they just need to order them and write them into the Sound Beds.

Phonics - Extra Challenge

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the leaf is in the stream. Then ask your student to read the caption.

If your student finds caption reading easy, rather than you writing the caption, you can say the caption and they can write it on the whiteboard.

Reading & Writing - Introduction

Explain to your student that they will be adding actions to the story of the Little Red Hen to help them to remember it. They can make up their own actions or you can use the actions from the videos they watched.

Reading & Writing - Speaking and Listening

Start retelling the story together but adding in actions as you go. Remember you do not need an action for every word! Actions are only needed for the important parts of the story.

For example, ‘Once upon a time’, ‘who’ and ‘plant the seeds’.

You need the actions to be simple and easy to remember. If you need help, use the actions from the videos.

Reading & Writing - Main Activity

Explain to your student that they are going to be drawing a story map to help them remember the order of what happens in the story. You can see Pie Corbett using a story map in the video of him retelling the story.

You may also like to look at the 📄 Example Story Maps.

Explain to your student that this isn’t an Art lesson. Their drawings do not need to be detailed. They just need to draw the important parts of the story to help them to remember what comes next.

Reading & Writing - Extra Support

If your student needsextra supportwith remembering the story you could help them by doing the action of what comes next.

You could also show them the next picture from the PowerPoint.

Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge

If your student is ready for an extra challenge when they have completed drawing the story map, they could label it with important words from the story.

Reading & Writing - What to Notice

While they are doing this activity remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.

For example:

‘I can see you checking how far you are through the story.’

‘Well done for using the pictures to help.’

‘I have noticed you thinking hard.’

Reading & Writing - Handwriting and Spelling

Ask your student to practise the tall letters ‘k’ and ‘l’

When finished, as an extra challenge they could write words using these letters.

For example: ‘lick’, ‘ink’, ‘line’, ‘suck’, ‘link’, ‘call’.

Check they are forming these tall letters correctly.

Citations

[1] www.youtube.com [2] www.youtube-nocookie.com [3] www.phonicsplay.co.uk