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All About Me
Objectives
To split to spell a word.
To use letter sounds and story meaning together when reading unknown words.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Big Cat Books: Have you ever?
📄 Sound Flashcards 4 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | Flashcard Speed Trials - Phase 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
Make sure you have read and understand the information in the plan about today’s grapheme ‘a_e’ so that you are able to explain it to your student.
Log in to Big Cat Books and have Have you ever? open to read in today’s lesson. 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 ‘a_e’ as in ‘cake’.
Show your student the 📄 flashcard and teach them the sound.
This grapheme has a gap in it for another letter. The ‘a’ and the ‘e’ are working together (as a digraph) to make the sound ‘ay’. You will find a consonant between them.
For example: ‘ate’, ‘plane’, ‘flame’, ‘made’.
Tell your student they listen for the sound that comes after the ‘ay’ sound and that is the sound that goes in the gap between ‘a’ and ‘e’.
For example, the sounds in ‘made’ are ‘m-ay-d’, so the ‘d’ goes in the gap between ‘a’ and ‘e’, making ‘made’.
Phonics - Blend to Read
ate (2) | cake (3) | whale (3) | shape (3)
Phonics - Split to Spell
gate (3) | snake (4) | tale (3) | grape (4)
Phonics - Extra Support
Use your finger to run from the ‘a’ to the ‘e’ as you say the ‘ay’ sound on your 📄 flashcards. This will help your student to see that the two letters are working together to make the sound.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
stale (4) | escape (5) | became (5) | behave (5)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the brave, tame ape had to escape from the flames. 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 3 (Phonics Play)
Select 'Phase 3'. Select 'Go'.
Reading & Writing - Introduction
Ask your student to read the rest of last step’s new book to you.
Reading & Writing - New Learning
‘Take a Peek’ at Big Cat Books: Have you ever?
Talk to your student about how this book contains ‘non-words’ that can be sounded out but are created for this book. Ask them to tell you if they can spot any whilst they are reading.
Support your student as they read Have you Ever?
Turn to pages 16–17. Can your student recount the story using the story map?
Turn to page 18–19 and ask the questions under the heading: 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 tell you how they think the characters are feeling at different parts of the story.