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Objectives
To use letter sounds and story meaning together when reading unknown words.
To group words into short phrases when reading aloud.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Big Cat Books: All in a Month
📄 Sound Flashcards 4 | 📄 Blank Flashcards
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
What to Get Ready
Login to Big Cat Books and select 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 ‘ore’ as in ‘more’.
Show your student the 📄 flashcard and teach them the sound.
In this grapheme, three letters make one sound. This is called a *trigraph.*All three letters go onto one Sound Bed.
Phonics - Blend to Read
wore (1) | more (2) | store (3) | score (3)
Phonics - Split to Spell
core (2) | shore (2) | snore (3) | tore (2)
Phonics - Extra Support
Give your student only the graphemes 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
before (4) | ignore (4) | bored (3)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: he tore his shorts before he wore them. 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 you have still been asking your student to read the day’s caption to you up to this point, can they begin to have a go at writing it instead? They can then check how well they have done by comparing their writing to yours.
Reading & Writing - Introduction
Allow your student to choose one book from their library, to read to you.
Now open up Big Cat Books: All in a Monthand ask your student to read this to you.
Reading & Writing - Main Activity
Turn to pages 16-17.
Follow the instructions given under the headings:
Understand a apply reading strategies and Develop reading and language comprehension.
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 boxes on a whiteboard and write the sounds of the word into them.
Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge
Ask your student to make the reading sound like a ‘real storyteller’ by reading with a good pace and some expression in their voice.