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The Little Red Hen

Objectives

To blend to read the sounds in a word.

To act out simple characters and stories.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Completed Story Map | A device to film

📊 The Little Red Hen PowerPoint | 📄 Sound Flashcards 2 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 High Frequency Word List | 📄 Weekly Spelling Activities

Vocabulary

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

Today's Lesson

What to Get Ready

You will need to find some people to act as an audience for your student when they retell The Little Red Hen story at the end of this lesson. Choose people your student knows well and feels comfortable with.

Make sure you have access to your student's library of familiar books.

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

Phonics - Quick Fire!

Quick recognition of sounds.

Ask your student to write the following words as quickly as possible on the mini whiteboard: ‘we’, ‘she’, ‘be’, ‘he’ and ‘me’.

Phonics - New Learning

All the new sounds for this unit have been introduced.

Phonics - Blend to Read

which (3) | teach (3) | cheat (3) | speak (4)

Phonics - Split to Spell

when (3) | chops (4) | bunch (4) | speak (4)

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

crunch (5) | cheeky (4) | trench (5) | least (4)

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the cheeky chicken teaches me to speak. 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.

Repeat with the caption: he leaps in the deep sea.

Reading - Introduction

Allow your student to choose a book from their library to read to you

Tell your student that you would like them to focus on making the reading sound like that of a real storyteller. Can they read without leaving big gaps between words?

Reading - Main Activity

Talk together about the ‘good storytelling’ commands that your student was working on in Step 5 Lesson 4.

Give them time for them to practise again following this storytelling command whilst telling The Little Red Hen story.

Reading - Apply

This is when you need your audience and a device to film on.

Your student needs to tell The Little Red Hen story to the audience whilst you film.

You can then look back at this video together.

Reading - Extra Support

If your student lacks confidence when talking in front of others, you could choose just one person to be their audience. This could be a family member who the student has already told the story to.

Reading - Extra Challenge

If your student is ready for an extra challenge, they could choose two or more ‘good storytelling’ commands to follow.

Reading - 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 looking at your audience!’

‘I can see you using different actions.’

Reading - Handwriting and Spelling

Ask your student to spell the words they have been practising this step. They should practise these using their best handwriting.

Make sure you are varying the activities you choose to ensure the best opportunity for your student to remember the words long term.