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Objectives
To break unknown words in helpful ways.
To read aloud independently.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Big Cat Books: All in a Month
📄 Sound Flashcards 4 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | Flashcard Speed Trials - Phase 2 & 3 (Phonics Play)
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary.
sound | letter | blend | split | capital letter | story | meaning | character | storyteller
Today's Lesson
Introduction
Watch this step's introductory video with your student.
What to Get Ready
Before the lesson, print and trim 📄 Sound Flashcards 4 ready to use in this unit of lessons.
Log into Big Cat Books and search for: All in a Month.
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.
Phonics - New learning
Today’s new grapheme is ‘ou’ as in ‘out’ and ‘loud’.
Show your student the 📄 flashcard and teach them the sound.
Phonics - Blend to Read
snout (4) | proud (4) | mound (4) | loud (3)
Phonics - Split to Spell
out (2) | about (4) | shout (3) | spout (4)
Phonics - Extra Support
Give your student only the sounds they need to spell the word. If they find this easy, give them the graphemes they need plus one or two more to choose from.
Encourage your student to count the sounds they can hear so that they don’t miss any out when writing the word.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
around (5) | counting (6) | pounding (6)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the Count counts the sprouts. 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 Play
Log in to Phonics Play.
PLAY - Flashcard Speed Trials - Phase 2 & 3 (Phonics Play)
Select 'Start'. Select 'Phases 2 & 3'. Select 'Go'.
Reading & Writing - Introduction
Allow your student to choose one book from their library to read to you.
Reading & Writing - New Learning
Tell your student that they will be learning to blend words in their head instead of out loud.
One way to begin doing this is by saying the word in two parts - the start and the end, and then putting the two parts together.
On your whiteboard (or paper), write the word ‘gate’.
Tell your student, ‘I can see g-ate: gate. This means I don’t say all the sounds, so I am becoming a quicker reader.’
Reading & Writing - Main Activity
Write each of the following words onto your whiteboard and support your student as they read them in two parts:
hill (h-ill)
shut (sh-ut)
sheep (sh-eep)
cows (c-ows)
back (b-ack)
Reading & Writing - Read
'Take a Peek’ at Big Cat Books: All in a Month.
(See Video 6: Take a Peek for a reminder of this strategy.)
Support your student as they read: All in a Month.
Reading & Writing - Extra Support
If your student needs extra support to read unfamiliar words, you can ask: ‘What can you see? What can you hear?’ Or, for more support, you can draw Sound Beds on a whiteboard and write the sounds of the word into them.
Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge
Can your student already read many of the words in their head? If so, encourage your student to read without gaps between words.
Reading & Writing - What to Notice
Remember to give praise when your student reads unknown words in two parts (for example, ‘a-go’).