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The Little Red Hen
Objectives
To split to spell a word.
To use knowledge of sounds to write simple words.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencil | Completed Story Map
Decodable Comic - Phase 2 (Phonics Play) | 📄 Speech Bubbles Sheet | 📄 Little Red Hen Picture
📄 Sound Flashcards 2 | 📄 Sound Actions | 📄 Blank Flashcards
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary.
sound | letter | blend | split | retell | story | speech | speech bubble| | label | describe | finger space
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.
Phonics - New Learning
Today’s new sound is ‘wh’ as in ‘when’.
Show your student the flashcard and teach them the sound. Tell them that we usually find this digraph (two letters making one sound) at the beginning of a word.
Phonics - Blend to Read
when (3) | wheat (3) | wheel (3)
Phonics - Split to Spell
when (3) | whip (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
Challenge your student to write today’s caption (below), rather than read it.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: when can we eat the wheat? Then ask your student to read the caption.
Reading & Writing - Speaking and Listening
Retell the story of The Little Red Hen together (using the actions) without looking at the written down story. Use your student's story map to help you.
Reading & Writing - Main Activity
Explain the meaning of speech to your student. You could say it has the same meaning as talking or speaking.
Ask them who talks in the story The Little Red Hen.
Ask them if they can remember what the animals say in the story.
Explain that they will be writing what the animals say in speech bubbles. Show your student the 📄 Speech Bubbles Sheet.
Ask your student to say out loud what the hen is saying, for example, ‘Who will help me plant this corn?’
Ask them to say and then write the first word. Then place their finger next to it to make a space, before writing the second word.
Once the sentence is written, ask your student to place a finger under each word in turn while they read the sentence out loud to check that it makes sense.
Explain that they are now going to try to describe the hen from the story.
Show your student the 📄 Little Red Hen Picture.
Talk to your student about hens.
- When have they seen them before?
- How do they move?
- What noises do they make?
Explain to your student that they will be writing labels to describe the hen. Their labels will go in the boxes around the picture.
Talk about what they could write.
Then ask your student to write the labels. The labels can be single words or short phrases. They do not need to be sentences.
Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge
If your student is ready for an extra challenge, they could complete more than one 📄 Speech Bubbles Sheet for different sections of speech in 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 are listening really carefully for sounds!’
‘Well done for remembering to use your finger space.’
‘I have noticed you reading your sentence to check it makes sense.’