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Objectives
To write a question.
To use a question mark at the end of a question.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen
📄 Question Words | 📄 Sound Flashcards 4 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 Lined Paper Resource | 📄 Sentence Checklist | 📄 Alphabet Mat | 📄 High Frequency Word List
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 - New Learning
Today’s new grapheme is ‘ai’ as in ‘tail’.
Show your student the 📄 flashcard and teach them the sound.
Phonics - Blend to Read
pain (3) | maid (3) | chain (3) | claim (4)
Phonics - Split to Spell
tail (3) | jail (3) | sail (3) | waiting (5)
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
waist (4) | faith (3) | claiming (6) | unpaid (5)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: The cat's tail is in the rain. 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.
Reading & Writing - What to Get Ready
Today your student will be writing questions to ask a family member or special person. Think about who that person could be and ask them if they would be able to answer the questions during Lesson 5 of this step. If that person lives further away, the questions could be asked over the phone.
Reading & Writing - Introduction
Explain to your student that over the next few days they will be writing about a family member or special person. Tell them the name of the person.
Say that today your student will be thinking of questions to ask that person. Explain that we want to find out facts about them that we do not already know. Ask your student to think of some possible facts they would like to find out about that person.
Reading & Writing - Writing
Explain that today your student will be writing questions. Explain that questions are sentences. Ask them to remind you what every sentence needs.
When they say ‘a full stop’, explain that at the end of a question you have a question mark instead of a full stop.
Draw a question mark at the top of the mini whiteboard. Give your student time to practise drawing question marks underneath.
Share the 📄 Question Words with your student. Explain that questions often start with one of these words.
Ask your student to think of a fact they would like to know, for example, the person’s favourite food. See if they can think of a question to find out the fact, for example: ‘What is your favourite food?’
Encourage your student to say this question a few times until they know it well. Ask them to say and then write the first word (remembering to start that word with a capital letter). Then place their finger next to it to make a space, before saying and writing the second word.
At the end of the sentence ask your student to draw a question mark on the line.
Once the question is written, ask your student to place a finger under each word in turn, while they read the question out loud, to check it makes sense.
Repeat the process until your student has a list of questions.
Reading & Writing - Extra Support
If your student needs extra support with spelling a word, first ask them to say the word slowly. Ask them, ‘What is the first sound you can hear?’ then, ‘What is the last sound you can hear?’ and, ‘Can you hear any other sounds in the middle?’
You can also encourage your student to use their 📄 Alphabet Mat to help them to spot the sounds they can hear, but do not tell them the letters/sounds they need. It does not matter if spellings are incorrect.
You could also take turns with them to write the questions.
Reading & Writing - Handwriting and Spelling
Ask your student to spell the three words they were practising yesterday. If your student has already remembered how to spell any of these words, choose an extra word from their 📄 High Frequency Word List. Do not start learning any more than eight during this step.
Continue to practise these spellings by choosing an activity from the 📄 Weekly Spelling Activities. Remember that it is a good idea to choose a different activity each day.