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Amazing Animals

Objectives

To retell stories with some appropriate use of story language.

To speak clearly.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens | Sticky Notes

📄 Lion Facts | 📄 Sound Flashcards 6 | 📄 Sound Flashcards 7 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 Pre-Joining Patterns sheets

Vocabulary

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

Today's Lesson

What to Get Ready

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

**Please note:**This step’s learning will be based around a new animal. A lion will be mentioned in the plans, but you could choose to write about your student's favourite animal if you prefer. If you choose to use a different animal, say that animal’s name instead of ‘lion’, whenever lions are mentioned in the plan.

Print out the **📄 Lion facts**and cut along the orange lines so each fact is separate.

If you are learning about your student's favourite animal, you will need to make your own fact sheet.

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

Phonics - Quick Fire!

Quick recognition of sounds.

Phonics - New Learning

Ask your student to write as many ways as they can think of for writing the sound ‘er’ on their mini whiteboard. They may include ‘er’, ‘ir’, ‘ur’, ‘ear’ and ‘or’.

Tell your student that today they will be revising the 📄 flashcard ‘or’. It can make the sound ‘or’ (as in ‘for’) but today they will be using it after the letter ‘w’ to make the sound ‘er’ as in ‘work’.

Phonics - Blend to Read

working (5) | world (4) | worthy (4)

Phonics - Split to Spell

word (3) | worst (4) | worldly (6)

Phonics - Extra Support

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

Phonics - Extra Challenge

woodworm (6) | worthiest (7)

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

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: a world full of words. 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

Choose two or three books from your student's library to read. Remind your student to be a Reading Detective and to read like a storyteller.

Reading & Writing - New Learning

Lay one of the 📄 Lion facts out on the table and read the fact to your student. Talk about the fact together and check they understand what it means.

Ask your student to draw a quick picture on a sticky note to help them to remember the fact. When the drawing is finished, ask your student to stick it to the fact.

Then move on to the next fact.

If your student needs extra support, you may choose just to look at three of the facts rather than all six.

Speaking & Listening

Ask your student to pick out their favourite 📄 Lion fact.

Explain that we are going to think of an action to go with this fact. Think of some possible actions and decide on the best one together.

For example, for the fact ‘Male lions have manes’, you might choose to move your hands around your head as if stroking your mane.

Practise together saying the fact and doing the action at the same time.

Then repeat with the other facts.

Reading & Writing - Apply

This part of the lesson is a chance to help your student memorise the facts. They do not need to say the facts word for word, just understand the general idea!

Here are some activities you could try:

You say the fact and your student does the matching action.
You do the action and your student says the fact.
You show the picture for the fact and your student does the action.
You show the picture and your student says the fact.

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 are thinking really hard.’

‘That picture will really help you remember the fact.’

‘You said that fact really clearly

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 this step.