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Where the Wild Things Are
Objectives
To blend to read the sounds in a word.
To join ideas using the word ‘and’.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens | Videos filmed of your student retelling Where the Wild Things Are | Your child’s labelled picture from Step 15 Lesson 2 | Sticky notes
📄 Sound Flashcards 5 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 Pre-Joining Patterns sheets
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
sound | letter | blend | split | capital letter | story | meaning | character | storyteller | improve | word | and
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Make sure you have access to your student's library of familiar books.
Have your student's labelled picture out ready for you both to look at.
Have the videos you made of your student retelling Where the Wild Things Are with puppets and reading aloud a section of the story.
Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.
Phonics - Quick Fire!
Quick recognition of sounds.
Phonics - New Learning
Tell your student that in this lesson they will be learning another way of writing the sound ‘oa’.
Show your student the ‘o_e’ 📄 flashcard. This is another split digraph (see digraphin the 📄 Glossary) and it makes the sound ‘oa’.
Phonics - Blend to Read
joke (3) | broke (4) | globe (4) | hope (3)
Phonics - Split to Spell
poke (3) | smoke (4) | stone (4) | rose (3)
Phonics - Extra Support
Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity.
Give your student words with fewer sounds to blend to read and/or split to spell. The following words all have three sounds: bone, cone, lone, tone, woke, robe.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
throne (4) | quote (3 | broken (5)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: The Queen sat on her throne. Then ask your child 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
Use this lesson to allow your student to reflect on their progress in their learning.
Watch the two videos you made of your student:
- Retelling Where the Wild Things Are with their puppets.
- Reading a section of Where the Wild Things Are*.*
Ask your student what they think they did well in these tasks. If they were to make the videos again, is there anything they would like to improve?
Ask your student to think about what whether they gave enough detail in the story they retold and whether they used their voice like a storyteller when they read aloud.
Reading & Writing - Main Activity
Ask your student to look carefully at their picture of their Wild Thing.
Say that you want to know more about their Wild Thing.
Ask:
- What does your Wild Thing like to do?
- What does your Wild Thing like to eat?
- What are your Wild Thing’s favourite things?
While they are telling you their ideas, write them on separate sticky notes.
Spread out the sticky notes in front of you both. Take turns to read the ideas.
Explain to your student that today they are going to be practising using the joining word ‘and’.
Say: ‘This word helps us to join similar ideas together and can make our sentences sound more grown up!’
Ask your student to look at the sticky notes and see if they can see two similar ideas that could be joined together.
For example: ‘likes swimming’ and ‘likes running’. Put the sticky notes next to each other. Show your student how to turn them into a sentence using the word ‘and’, for example: ‘My Wild Thing likes swimming and running’.
Repeat with other pairs of ideas.
Your student may also enjoy thinking of new pairs of ideas!
Reading & Writing - Extra Support
As you watch the videos together, demonstrate how to comment on them constructively by saying things such as, ‘You used your voice in a really interesting way on that word. I think you could make it even better by using expression when you read this sentence…’
Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge
Ask your student to read the whole of Where the Wild Things Are to you, as if they are performing. They may want to dress up and invite other audience members.
Reading & Writing - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘I can see you looking carefully to spot ideas that link together.’
‘Well done, you said that sentence so clearly!’
Reading & Writing - Handwriting and Spelling
This step you will have chosen to either continue to practise individual letter shapes or work on 📄 Pre-Joining Patterns.
Continue with this at the end of every lesson during this step.