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Poetry

Objectives

To use knowledge of sounds to write simple words.

To choose words for effect.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencil | Thesaurus or Online Thesaurus by Merriam-Webster

Flash Cards Speed Trial - Phase 2 (Phonics Play) | 📄 Poem ‘I’d Like To Be a Worm’ | Kindness Boomerang (YouTube) | 📄 Kindness Acrostic Poem Template

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.

Phonics Play

PLAY - Flash Cards Speed Trial - Phase 2 (Phonics Play)

You may like to include an extra challenge. For example:

How many of the sounds can you read in one minute?

How quickly can you read all the sounds?

Can you beat your time?

Phonics - New Learning

Tell your student that in today’s lesson they will be looking at different graphemes for the ‘oo’ sound (as in ‘book’). Show them the ‘oo’ and ‘u’ flashcards. All of today’s words will contain one of these graphemes.

Phonics - Blend to Read

shook (3) | took (3) | bushy (4) | pushy (4)

Phonics - Split to Spell

bully (4) | fully (4) | crook (4) | mistook (6)

Phonics - Extra Support

Spilt to spell words with three sounds: ‘put’, ‘book’, ‘look’, ‘full’.

Phonics - Extra Challenge

Spilt to spell words with three sounds: ‘put’, ‘book’, ‘look’, ‘full’.

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the pushy crook could not look at the book. 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.

Phonics - What to Notice

If your student needs extra support during phonics activities in most lessons, this is something to talk to your student's Wolsey Hall tutor about so that they can suggest activities to help your student be a more independent learner.

Reading & Writing - Speaking and Listening

Take this time to support your student in continuing to memorise, 📄 ‘I'd like to be a worm’. Help them plan how to add the following parts to their performance.

interesting use of different voices
emphasis on certain words
use of facial expressions
use of sound effects
use of movements or actions.

You will be filming your student's performance of this poem in Step 9 Lesson 5. This video will be submitted for Assignment 3.

Reading & Writing - Watch

Watch the Kindness Boomerang video.

Ask your student what kind acts they saw people doing in the video. Write these on a piece of paper.

Ask your student to suggest any other kind acts they can think of. For example, asking a student to play who is lonely, picking up a piece of litter, sharing their toys.

Reading & Writing - Introduction

Explain to your student that today they are going to be writing an acrostic poem about kindness!

Reading & Writing - Writing

Show your student the 📄 Kindness Acrostic Poem Template. Explain that they will be writing their acrostic poem on to this.

Give your student time to write their acrostic poem. Encourage them to use their list of kind acts from the introduction to help them.

If they are finding it tricky to find ideas that fit with the letters, encourage them to turn their idea into a longer sentence.

For example, if you need an idea which starts with ‘K’ you could write ‘Keeping everybody happy by telling jokes’.

You could also show your student how to use a thesaurus if they need help coming up with some appropriate words. You can find an online thesaurus in the Web Links document.

When complete, your student could write up their acrostic poem onto the 📄 Lined Paper Resource and decorate their work.

Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge

If your student needs an extra challenge, you could encourage them to write longer sentences rather than just single words.

Reading & Writing - Handwriting and Spelling

Ask your student to spell the words they have been practising this step.

Cross off the words your student can now spell from their 📄 High Frequency Word List.

If there are any words your student still needs to practise, make a note of these and choose an activity from the 📄 Weekly Spelling Activities to practise them until the end of your lesson time.

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

Citations

[1] www.youtube.com [2] www.youtube-nocookie.com [3] www.merriam-webster.com [4] www.phonicsplay.co.uk