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Objectives
To read aloud accurately books consistent with their phonic knowledge.
To recognise story elements (beginning, middle and end).
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens | Book: Fantastic Nature
Sound Flashcards Sets 1-8 | 📄 Blank Flashcards | 📄 Word Bank | 📄 Word Group Flashcards | 📄 Word Group Sentences Step 35 | Super Daisy: And the Peril of Planet Pea! (YouTube) | 📄 Illustrated Sentences | 📄 Differentiated Questions | 📄 Super Superhero Words | 📄 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 | story | suffix | sentence
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Before the lesson, familiarise yourself with the section, ‘Can Fish Fly?’ from Fantastic Nature.
Select six words from the 📄 Word Bank and write these onto 📄 blank flashcards.
Print the 📄 Word Group Flashcards, trim the flashcards and have those needed for today’s lesson ready to use (see New Learning).
Print out the 📄 Word Group Sentences Step 35.
Phonics - Quick Fire!
Quick reading of words from 📄 Word Bankwritten on flashcards.
Quick reading of a selection of the Word Groupwords learnt so far.
Phonics - New Learning
Write the letters ‘ey’ on the mini whiteboard. Tell your student that in a few words the letters ‘ey’ make the sound ‘ay’ (as in ‘they’).
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 ‘ey’ in them – ‘they’, ‘grey’, ‘obey’.
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 35. 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:
The man has grey hair.
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 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:
greying | obeying | obeyed
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
Support your student as they read the section ‘Can Fish Fly?’ from Fantastic Nature. Before your student begins reading, look at the contents page together and talk through the Topic Words on page 72.
As your student reads, prompt them where necessary with their Reading Detective prompts:
Use your eyes.
Use your ears.
Use your knowledge.
When your student has finished reading the text, support them as they answer the ‘Talk about it!’ questions on page 87 of the book.
Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge
Ask your student to choose a page from the text to read to you again.
Say, ‘Use your voice to make the reading sound interesting.’
Phonics - Extra Support
Share the reading with your student but make sure they are reading at least 3-4 pages themselves in order to build reading stamina.
Phonics - What to Notice
Is your student able to read at an improved pace while also listening to how their reading sounds, checking for mistakes? Praise them for noticing and attempting to correct mistakes.
If their pace needs to improve, say, ‘Let’s make the next page even quicker.’
Phonics - Main Activity
Watch the video of author Kes Grey reading his own book Super Daisy:
Ask:
- What do you like about the story?
- What do you think the opposite of ‘strong’ is? (weak)
Write on a piece of paper: Super Daisy is weaker than a new-born baby.
Point out that ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ are opposites.
Phonics - Apply
Now ask:
- What is the opposite of ‘fast’? (slow)
Write on a piece of paper: Super Daisy is slower than a snail.
Point out that ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ are opposites.
Now ask:
- Can you think of other pairs of opposites? (For example: cold/hot, soft/hard, straight/curly.)
Give your student 📄 Illustrated Sentences. Ask them to read them through with your help.
Talk about each animal superhero as you read the sentence. Ask your student which one they liked the most and least, for example.
Next, using 📄 Differentiated Questions, ask your student about the animal superheroes. Encourage them to think about the question and to read the sentences again to find the answers to the questions.
Then, show them 📄 Super Superhero Words. Ask them to choose some words and to think of the opposites for them.
Phonics - What to Notice
While they are doing this activity, remember to praise your student for the skills they are using.
For example:
‘You are listening carefully to the questions and looking at the sentences for the answers.’
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.
Ask your student to go on a Word Hunt and spot these words in a book (a reading book, bedtime book or a favourite one):
will, that, this, then, them, with, see, for, now, down