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Amazing Animals

Objectives

To read labels, lists and captions to find information.

To use question marks appropriately.

Resources

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.

Print out the 📄 Question sheet. If your student is ready for an extra challenge, you may choose to print out two sheets for them to use.

Today your student will be completing the last piece of writing for their animal book. At the end of the lesson, all of the writing from Steps 22, 23 and 24 can be stapled together to make a book. This book can then be added to your student's library of familiar books.

Phonics - Quick Fire!

Quick recognition of sounds.

Phonics - New Learning

In this lesson, your student will be revising some of the new flashcards from Steps 19 to 23.

Ask your student to write on their mini whiteboard as many ways as they can think of for writing the sound ‘ue’ (you) as in ‘cue’. They may write: ‘ue’, ‘u’, u_e’ and/or ‘ew’. Remind your student of any they haven’t written.

All of the words in today’s phonics activities will have the sound ‘ue’ (you) in them.

Phonics - Blend to Read

newt (3) | stewing (5) | huge (3) | human (5)

Phonics - Split to Spell

These words have ‘ew’ in: few (2) | news (3)

These words have ‘u’ in: stupid (6) | unit (4)

These words have ‘u_e’ in: cute (3) | duke (3)

Phonics - Extra Support

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

Phonics - Extra Challenge

humanity (8) | assume (4)

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

Phonics - Apply

Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: a tuna is a fish and a tulip is a flower. 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

Support your student as they re-read the section ‘Fantastic Plants and Animals’ from Fantastic Nature. Tell your student that they need to pay close attention to the information they read because afterwards you are going to be answering some questions about the book together.

Tell your student that you would like them to also think about making their reading sound really good, like a storyteller. Praise your student when they read at a good pace, without gaps between words, and when they use expression.

Once your student has read the section of the book, work through the following questions together:

Find a page with three or more labels on. What do they say? What are they telling us?
On which page can you find a photograph of the tallest tree?
What do the whales shown on page 28 eat? Show me how you know.
On page 30, find the words that describe what the black rain frog looks like when it ‘puffs up’.
Why do you think pages 34 and 35 have the heading ‘Look Again…’?
Use the Glossaryto find out what the word ‘sap’ means.

Speaking & Listening

Explain to your student that today they will be writing questions to go at the back of their animal book.

Talk with your student about some different possible questions they could ask.

For example:

What is your favourite animal?
Which of the animals in my book is the scariest?
Which animal has the longest neck?

Reading & Writing - Writing

Before you begin, your student might find it useful to practise drawing question marks on the mini whiteboard.

Help your student choose which of their questions to start with.

Say the question out loud with your student first. Repeat until your student knows the question well. Your student might like to say the question whilst counting the number of words on their fingers.

Ask your student to say and then write the first word of their question on the line. Then ask them to place their finger next to it to make a space before they begin writing the second word. Remind your student to finish with a question mark.

Once the question is written, ask your student to place a finger under each word in turn, while they read the question out loud to check it makes sense.

Repeat with the other questions.

If there is time at the end of the lesson, your student might also like to make a front cover for their book.

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 carefully to get the best question!’

‘You stretched out that word really well to hear all the sounds.’

‘You wrote that word so neatly - well done!’

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.