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Objectives

To split to spell a word.

To spell familiar common words accurately.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Video Recording Device e.g. Camera

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

In this lesson, your student will be remembering that they know more than one grapheme for the sound ‘ay’. They will be blending and splitting words with ‘ay’, ‘ai’ and ‘a_e’ in, all of which will be making the ‘ay’ sound.

Show your student the 📄 flashcards ‘ay’, ‘ai’ and ‘a_e’. Tell them that they are three different graphemes which often make the same sound.

Phonics - Blend to Read

hailing (5) | spraying (6) | forgave (5) | grate (4)

Phonics - Split to Spell

Use the grapheme ‘ay’:

clay (3) | dismay (5)

Use the grapheme ‘ai’:

strain (5) | drain (4)

Use the grapheme ‘a_e’:

shake (3) | plate (4)

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

inhale (5) | straining (7) | delay (4)

Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: they played a game where the snake chased the whale. 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 - Introduction

Explain to your student that we have been practising spelling their 📄 High Frequency Words during the last 12 steps.

Today, your student will be playing games to help remind them of the different spellings.

The following games are an excellent way of practising these words.

'Look Cover Say Write Check' (Select ‘Year 1’, then ‘Tricky Words’).

PLAY - Look, Cover, Write, Check (ICT Games)

'Spooky Spellings' (Select either ‘Year 1 Spellings’ or ‘Year 2 Spellings’.)

PLAY - Spooky Spellings (ICT Games)

You may also choose to practise the spellings using your 📄 Weekly Spelling Activities.

After ten minutes of practising, take out the 📄 High Frequency Word List that you have been using during the last 12 steps. You will have marked on it the spellings your student could spell at the start. You may have also marked this list when your student learned new spellings.

Reading & Writing - Speaking and Listening

Explain to your student that today you are going to ask them to spell lots of different words! They may not know how to spell every word, but you want them to think hard and have their best go at writing them all.

You may choose to split this ‘testing’ up across the day so your student does not get too tired.

Say the first word to your student. You could also put it into a sentence to help them to understand the meaning.

For example: ‘Spell off. Dad pulled his socks off. Write off.’

Your student can then write the word you have said on a mini whiteboard or a piece of paper. If they spell the word correctly, tick it off on a new copy of the 📄 High Frequency Word List.

As you move down the sheet the words become trickier to spell. Stop the test when your student gets more than six wrong in a row.

Remember to frequently praise your student, noticing the effort they are using or how hard they are concentrating.

Keep this new copy of the 📄 High Frequency Word List for use in feedback discussions with your student's Wolsey Hall tutor.

Citations

[1] www.ictgames.com [2] ictgames.com