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Superheroes
Objectives
To anticipate what happens next in a story.
To talk about significant aspects of a story’s language.
Resources
Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens
Big Cat Books | 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 | 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
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 📄 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 Bank**written on flashcards.
Quick reading of a selection of the Word Groupwords learnt so far.
Phonics - New Learning
Write the letters ‘ar’ on the mini whiteboard. Tell your student that in a few words the letters ‘ar’ make the sound ‘or’ (as in ‘war’).
Say, ‘You have a group of four words to learn. Keep the sound ‘or’ in your head as you read them.’
Show your student the flashcards with the letters ‘ar’ in them – ‘warm’, ‘swarm’, ‘war’, ‘warn’.
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:
A swarm of bees circles the nest.
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:
warmer | swarming | warning
Keep the 📄 Word Group Flashcards used in today’s lesson and add them into the Quick-fire! activity in the next lesson.
Reading & Writing - Read
Read last lesson’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.
Now choose a new book from Big Cat Books to read together. Take some time to answer the questions at the back of the book.
Reading & Writing - Introduction
Re-watch Super Daisy.
Point out the ‘as fast as…’ and ‘as strong as…’ sentences.
Explain that the author is trying to explain Daisy’s special powers in a way that makes it clearer for us to understand, by comparing them to things we know.
Ask:
- What things can we compare our superheroes to?
Reading & Writing - Main Activity
Talk about how we can compare our superheroes to things to show how big/strong/brave/helpful/kind/fast they are.
Ask your student to think of their favourite superhero and then to write a sentence about them, comparing them to something that is familiar to show how strong their power is.
Give them 📄 Super Superhero Words so they can look through the words and pick one to help them think of a superhero.
Encourage them to come up with a few ideas before deciding which one they will write about.
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 your superhero and the sort of powers they have.’
‘I love the way you are comparing your superhero to familiar things.’
Handwriting and Spelling
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
Ask:
- Can you turn these words into a sentence?
- What other words will you need?
- Remember they should use their best handwriting