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Instructions: Pigeon Books
Objectives
To read labels, lists and captions to find information.
To read books with increased pace.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Drawing and writing pencils | Your student's library of familiar books
Big Cat Books | 📄 Sound Flashcards Set 8 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | Dragon's Den (Phonics Play) | 📄 Letter Formation Ideas | Set 8 Sound Flashcards and Actions
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
sounds | sound out | blend |split | flexible | pace | check | Reading Detective | storyteller
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Make sure you have access to your student's library of familiar books and are logged in to Big Cat Books.
Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.
Phonics - Quick Fire!
Quick recognition of sounds.
Phonics - New Learning
Ask your student if they can show you the three different flashcards they have used this step to make the sound ‘air’ (‘ear’, ‘air’, ‘are’). Tell your student that they will be reading and writing words in this lesson that use these groups of letters to make the sound ‘air’.
Phonics - Blend to Read
stare (3) | square (3) | chairman (5) | wearing (4)
Phonics - Split to Spell
Words with ‘are’: scared (4) | underwear (6)
Words with air: funfair (4) | upstairs (6)
Words with ‘ear’: bearing (4)
Phonics - Extra Support
Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
fanfare (5) | unfairness (7)
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the bear was scared at the funfair. Then ask your student to read the caption.
Phonics Play
Log in to Phonics Play.
PLAY - Dragon's Den (Phonics Play)
Select 'Start'. Select 'Phase 4'. Select 'Revise all Phase 4'.
Reading - Introduction
Now choose a new book from Big Cat Books to read together. Ask your student to read at a good pace, not too fast and not too slow.
Reading - Read
Now find A Day at the Eden Project from Big Cat Books and read together.
Reading - Extra Challenge
Talk through the questions at the end of the book.
Reading - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘You are answering the questions carefully.’
Handwriting and Spelling
Today, please do these dictation sentences with your student. They should use their best handwriting:
- Put it back and go to bed.
- Then, go down to see Mum.
- We all went with them to see the children.