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Poems that Play with Sounds
Objectives
To apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
To listen to and discuss a wide range of poems.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Drawing and writing pencils | Sticky notes
📄 Daily Phonics Activities | 📄 Peter Piper | 📄 Dick’s Dog | 📄 Shaun Short | 📄 Letter Formation Ideas
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
poem | tongue twister
Today's Lesson
Phonics
Over the next three steps, your phonics activities will be personalised revision activities for your student.
All the instructions are included on the 📄 Daily Phonics Activities sheet.
Reading - Introduction
Explain to your student that poems sometimes have fun by playing with sounds.
Say the phrase: ‘A buzzy black bug blew big blue bubbles.’ What is funny about this phrase?
Draw out that it sounds funny because all of the words begin with the ‘b’ sound. We don’t often get that in most of the sentences we hear!
Then read 📄 Peter Piperto your student. What did they think about it? What is the sound used a lot at the beginning of words in this poem? P!
Now read 📄 Dick’s Dog and then 📄 Shaun Short.
Explain that these types of poems are really hard to read, and it plays funny tricks with your brain and mouth! You have to practice really hard to say them. They are called tongue twisters and you can see why!
Look at one of the tongue twisters again. Say a line at a time and see if your student can say the line back to you.
Reading - Main Activity
Using the poems 📄 Peter Piper, 📄 Dick’s Dog and 📄 Shaun Short, ask your student to choose one poem.
They should highlight all of the words that begin with the same letter sound.
After highlighting the words, they should read through their poem, knowing that the starting sound for each highlighted word will be the same.
Give your student time to practise reading the poem. Challenge them to see how quickly they can read it without getting their tongue twisted!
Reading - Extra Challenge
Can your student read this poem out loud to a family member or friend?
Reading - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘You worked hard to read these poems out loud today!’
‘I can see you sounding out that word really carefully.’
Handwriting and Spelling
Children’s handwriting develops at different times. Have a close look at your student's recent writing. Are there letter shapes that they still need to work on? If there are, please continue to choose one or two letters a day this step to focus on.
You may find your student needs to practise letters shapes they find tricky many times before they feel confident. Remember to use the 📄 Letter Formation Ideas resource.
Please revisit any spellings from Year 1 which you feel your student may need to practise more. These could be words that you see them misspelling still in their independent writing.