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Reading - Developing Skills
Objectives
To read aloud independently from simple books.
To build reading stamina by reading for longer.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Drawing and writing pencils | Your student's story map
Big Cat Books | 📄 Sound Flashcards Set 8 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | Acorn Adventures (Phonics Play) | 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
Write the words from 'Blend to Read' (below) on 📄 blank flashcards.
Phonics - Quick Fire!
Quick recognition of sounds.
Phonics - New Learning
Show your student the flashcard ‘ey’. Tell your student that these sounds together can make the sound ‘ee’ and often come at the end of a word, as in ‘honey’.
Phonics - Blend to Read
honey (4) | money (4) | key (2)
Phonics - Split to Spell
keys (3) | donkey (5) | monkey (4)
Phonics - Extra Support
Show your student how to blend to read/split to spell the first word in each activity.
Phonics - Extra Challenge
Challenge your student to write the words without Sound Beds to help them.
Phonics - Apply
Write this caption on the mini whiteboard: the monkey dropped honey onto the donkey. Then ask your student to read the caption.
Phonics Play
Log in to Phonics Play.
PLAY - Acorn Adventures (Phonics Play)
Select 'Start'.
Reading - Introduction
Read yesterday’s choice from Big Cat Books.
Ask your student to read ‘like a storyteller’, making the reading sound smooth and interesting. Tell them to read at a good pace, not too fast and not too slow.
Reading - Read
Now choose a new book from Big Cat Books to read together.
Take some time to answer the questions from the back of the book.
Ask, ‘How could we find the answer? Let’s look back at the pages and see which page tells us the answer.’
Reading - Apply
Support your student as they use their finished story map from last lesson to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs.
Reading - What to Notice
Is your student becoming more confident to use their own words to retell the story? Is their language starting to include features from the sentence writing such as using and, but, so or because?
Handwriting and Spelling
This lesson, please can you:
- Encourage your student to read through their writing to make sure they have spelt words correctly.
Words they need to look out for are:
a, an, as, at, if, in, is, it, of, off
- Ask them to write a sentence with one of these words in it.
- Ask them to look for these words in one of their reading or bedtime books.