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Where the Wild Things Are
Objectives
To begin to use the voice to add expression when reading aloud.
To talk about my ideas before I write.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens | The Trunk and the Skunk and Other Stories | Where the Wild Things Are
📄 Sound Flashcards 5 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 Planning Grid | 📄 Letter Formation Ideas
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
sound | letter | blend | split | capital letter | story | meaning | character | storyteller | sentence| full stop
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.
Familiarise yourself with the story ‘The Trunk and the Skunk’ from The Trunk and the Skunk and Other Stories.
Print out the 📄 Planning Grid. If your student needs extra supportyou may just choose for them to fill in two or three of these boxes.
Look at the 📄 Letter Formation Ideas. You may choose to prepare one of these activities for your student to use during the 'Handwriting and Spelling' section at the end of the lesson.
Phonics - Quick Fire!
Quick recognition of sounds.
Phonics - New Learning
This step, your student is learning the sound ‘ie’ (as in ‘pie’). This sound can be written in many different ways.
Tell your student that today they will be looking at another way of writing the sound ‘ie’.
Show your student the 📄 flashcard ‘i’.
We know that this letter makes the sound ‘i’ as in ‘fish’, but it also sometimes makes the sound ‘ie’ (as in ‘pie’).
All of the words in today’s blending and splitting activities will have ‘i’ in them.
Phonics - Blend to Read
find (4) | mind (4) | blind (5)
Phonics - Split to Spell
kind (4) | bind (4) | hind (4)
Phonics - Extra Support
Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
unkind (6) | behind (6)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: I find you to be kind. 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 - Introduction
Ask your student to read you ‘Gran is Cross’ from The Trunk and the Skunk and Other Stories. Can they make it sound like a storyteller by reading in full sentences?
Reading - New Learning
Tell your student that another way of reading like a storyteller is by using their voice to make the reading sound interesting and exciting – like they did when they were performing their poems in Part 1 of the course.
Look at pages 33-34 in the story ‘The Trunk and the Skunk’. Notice that the words *‘good’*and *‘bad’*are written in italics. Tell your student that these words are written differently because we need to make them sound interesting when we read them.
Tell your student that when we use our voice to make the reading sound interesting or exciting, we call this reading with expression.
Demonstrate to your student how to read the sentences on pages 33 and 34 using your voice to make ‘good’ and ‘bad’ stand out. You can exaggerate and do this in an over-the-top way so that your student understands. Make the word ‘good’ sound really happy and the word ‘bad’ sound the opposite.
Reading - Main Activity
Start looking through Where the Wild Things Are together. Ask your student to find the page where Max is made King of all the wild things. Talk to your student about how, when Max is made King it means he decides what will happen on the island.
Ask your student to close their eyes and imagine that they are King or Queen of the world. Say that they will get to decide what will happen in the world and ask them to think what that might be. After they have had time to think, talk with them about their ideas.
Reading - Speaking and Listening
Explain to your student that when someone is in charge they might make laws. Ask them if they know of any laws.
Say that today they are going to be thinking of what laws they would make if they were King or Queen of the world.
Talk with your student about their ideas. You may like to share your ideas as well.
Show your student the 📄 Planning Grid. Explain that it helps us write if we decide on our ideas first. Today they will plan their laws for the world. In Step 13 Lesson 5, they will write their ideas.
Ask your student for their first idea.
For example: There will be no more bedtimes.
Ask them to draw a picture in the box to help them remember their idea.
Repeat with their other ideas.
Reading - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘What a wonderful idea!’
‘You explained that idea very clearly to me, well done!’
‘Thank you for listening to me so carefully.’
Reading - Handwriting and Spelling
During Step 13 Lesson 1 you chose with your student four letters for them to practise forming.
Choose a different letter to practise today.