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Reading - Superheroes

Objectives

To enjoy reading and listening to a range of books, drawing on background information and vocabulary provided.

To learn to add suffixes to verbs where no change is needed in the spelling of root words.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens | Your student's superhero drawing and sentences from this step

Vocabulary

Words in bold can be found in the 📄 Year 1 English Glossary

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.

Select six words from the document 📄 Word Bank and write these onto 📄 blank flashcards.

Print the document**📄 Word Group Flashcards**, trim the flashcards and have the flashcards needed for today’s lesson (‘weigh’, ‘eight’, and ‘weight') ready to use.

Print out the📄 Word Group Sentences Step 34.

Have all of your student's superhero work ready to look through in today’s lesson.

Phonics - Quick Fire!

Quick reading of words from **📄 Word Bank**written on flashcards.

Quick reading of a selection of the Word Groupwords learnt so far.

Phonics - New Learning

Write the letters ‘eigh’ on the mini whiteboard. Tell your student that in a few words the letters ‘eigh’ make the sound ‘ay’ (as in ‘weigh’).

Say, ‘You have a group of three words to learn. Keep the sound ‘ay’ in your head as you read them.’

Show your student the flashcards with the letters ‘eigh’ in them – ‘weigh’, ‘eight’, ‘weight’.

Ask your student to read the words quickly, one at a time. You can go through the words two or three times.

Phonics - Blend to Read

Show your student today’s sentences on the 📄 Word Group Sentences Step 34. Show the sentences one at a time by placing a blank sheet of paper on top of the sentences below. Ask your student to read each sentence.

Phonics - Split to Spell

Ask your student to write each of today’s Word Groupwords into a sentence and then read it back to you. Use the mini whiteboard for this activity.

For example:

An octopus has eight tentacles.

Phonics - Extra Support

Have the flashcards on the table for your student to refer to if they need to. Try to encourage them to look at the flashcard but to then turn it over before they write the word so that they write the word from memory.

Phonics - Extra Challenge

Challenge your student to make up a silly sentence with lots of the Word Groupwords in.

Phonics - Apply

Ask your student to write the following words onto the mini whiteboard:

weightless | eighteen | eighty

Keep the 📄 Word Group Flashcards used in today’s lesson and add them into the Quick-fire! activity in the next lesson.

Reading & Writing - Introduction

Look again at your student's superhero picture and sentences.

Show your student the 📄 Superhero pictures.

Point out Superman and ask your student what Superman’s powers are. For example, he is very strong and he can fly.

Talk about superpowers and make a list of some examples, with all powers ending in ‘-ing’.

For example:

Helping people in trouble
Flying
Freezing baddies
Jumping high
Using x-ray eyes

Write these words in a list. With your student watching, underline the ‘-ing’ in each word.

Reading & Writing - Main Activity

Explain that, when adding ‘-ing’, the rule is that if a word ends with a vowel then a consonant, the last letter is often doubled.

Explain that the vowels are: a, e, i, o, u.

Consonants are all the other letters in the alphabet.

For example:

drop - dropping
plod – plodding
slip - slipping

Words ending in two consonants do not double the last letter.

For example: jump - jumping.

Show your student the Superhero pictures and talk about the different actions the superheroes are doing. For example, Batman jumps, Icewoman freezes.

Then talk about how each action could be an ‘-ing’ word.

For example:

Climbing skyscrapers and jumping off.

Ask your student to write an ‘-ing’ sentence about one of the superheroes.

Encourage them to say the sentence out loud before they write it and then to say each word slowly as they write, so they can hear the sounds in the word.

When they have finished their sentence, ask them to read it again to make sure it makes sense.

Ask them to start their sentence with a capital letter and end with a full stop.

Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge

Do the activity as above but ask your student to write a sentence about more than one superhero.

Reading & Writing - What to Notice

While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.

For example:

‘You are thinking hard about the ‘-ing’ words and the actions of the superheroes.’

‘You have listened carefully to the sounds in the words and had a go at writing them – well done!’

Handwriting and Spelling

Dictate these sentences to your student. They should use their best handwriting:

I got up and went swimming with the children.
I got wet but Mum had a towel with her.
It’s hot and I am jumping in the sun.