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Objectives
To draw on what we already know, thinking more deeply about the meaning of vocabulary.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Drawing and writing pencils | Lined paper
📄 Daily Phonics Activities | 📄 Nut Tree | 📄 Letter Formation Ideas
Vocabulary
Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary
poem | stanza | line | rhyming couplet
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
Show your student the poem 📄 Nut Tree again.
Read the poem together, encouraging them to join in with words.
Reading - Main Activity
Ask your student to work through the poem again and make up actions for the different things the poet talks about.
Explain that it is fun to invent new actions, to think about other ideas that the same words put into our minds. Then, we can show the listener as we say the poem what we would like themto imagine.
Try out different ideas and challenge your student to explain the reasons for their choices of new actions as they go.
Finally, spend a few minutes practising the poem, putting the new actions into place.
Reading - Extra Challenge
Encourage your student to work independently on this activity.
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 reading aloud so clearly!’
‘You are selecting some great actions!’
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.