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The Papaya that Spoke

Objectives

To read aloud independently from simple books.

To choose interesting words and phrases.

Resources

Vocabulary

Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary

Today's Lesson

Introduction

Watch this step's introductory video with your student.

What to Get Ready

Make sure you have access to your student's library of familiar books.

Alternatively, login to Big Cat Books and select a new book from Red, Yellow or Blue band that your student would like to read. Try to choose one that has a similar number of words per page to others that your student can read.

Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.

Choose three fruits for your student to explore today. They will be looking at them, feeling them and then tasting them.

These could be fruits they are familiar with or fruits which are new to them.

Ask your student to thoroughly wash their hands before starting the 'Main Activity'.

Phonics - Quick Fire!

Allow your student to choose one book from their library to read to you – encourage them to choose one of the newer books that they have not read many times. Or select a new book from the Big Cat Books Library.

Phonics - New Learning

Tell your student that they will be learning ways of writing the sound ‘er’ (as in ‘herb’).

Show your student the 📄 flashcard ‘ir’ and teach them that it makes the sound ‘er’ (as in ‘fir’).

Phonics - Blend to Read

fir (2) | whirl (3) | squirt (4) | thirty (4)

Phonics - Split to Spell

firm (3) | bird (3) | third (3) | first (4)

Phonics - Extra Support

Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity.

Phonics - Extra Challenge

birthday (5) | thirsty (5) | squirming (6) | whirling (5)

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

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the thirsty bird is squirming in the dirt. 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

Reading & Writing - New Learning

Tell your student that today they will be learning more about how to be a ‘Reading Detective’. As well as using their eyes and their ears to make sure reading looks and sounds right, Reading Detectives also use their brains and the things they know to check that reading makes sense.

Reading & Writing - Main Activity

Show your student the first piece of fruit. Tell your student the name of the fruit (if they don’t know it already!) and ask them to write it at the top of a piece of plain A4 paper.

Say to your student, ‘Look closely at this piece of fruit but don’t touch it.’

Ask: ‘What words could you use to describe this piece of fruit?’

Ask your student to write these words on the piece of paper. If your student needs extra support, they could suggest the ideas and you could write them down.

Depending on the type of fruit, you may cut it open so your student can see inside the fruit too.

Now, ask your student to gently touch the piece of fruit.

Ask: ‘What words could you use to describe what this piece of fruit feels like?’

Tell your student to add any extra words they can think of to their list on the piece of paper.

Now it is your student's chance to taste the piece of fruit. While they taste the fruit, ask them for words to describe the taste. Tell them to add these words to their list.

Repeat this process with the other pieces of fruit, using a separate piece of paper for each piece of fruit.

Reading & Writing - What to Notice

While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.

For example:

‘What an interesting word!’

‘I can see you looking really closely at the fruit!’

Reading & Writing - Handwriting and Spelling

Explain to your student that they are going to continue learning words from the 📄 High Frequency Word List.

Choose three words that your student cannot yet spell. Explain to your student that they are going to practise these words all step.

Look at the 📄 Weekly Spelling Activities. Choose one activity and use this to help your student practise their spellings today.