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Reading - Superheroes
Objectives
To read increasingly challenging texts with a good level of accuracy.
To compose a sentence orally before writing it.
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) | 📄 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 ‘au’ on the mini whiteboard. Tell your student that in a few words the letters ‘au’ make the sound ‘or’ (as in ‘cause’).
Say, ‘You have a group of three words to learn. Keep the sound ‘or’ in your head as you read them.’
Show your student the flashcards with the letters ‘au’ in them – ‘August’, ‘cause’, ‘author’.
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:
An author writes books.
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:
authored | causes
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 - What to Notice
Is your student getting quicker at reading the texts? Remember to use the prompts ‘Make it quick’ and ‘Make it smooth.’
Are they understanding the story well enough to be able to talk through the questions with you? If you find that your student isn’t understanding the story well enough to talk about it with you, try spending a few seconds talking about what has happened on each page as your student finishes reading it.
Reading & Writing - Main Activity
Re-watch Super Daisy.
Ask:
- Can you think of a pair of superheroes who are opposite to each other?
Give your student some ideas. For example: boy superhero/girl superhero; tall superhero/short superhero; swimming superhero/flying superhero.
They can be as creative as they like.
Remind them of how they wrote comparisons during the last lesson.
For example:
- Tall superhero is as tall as a skyscraper.
- Short superhero is as tiny as an ant.
They could start with an action, for example: Fiery superhero; Freezing superhero.
Or they could choose an animal superhero, for example: Slithery snake superhero; Jumping kangaroo superhero.
Then, when they have decided on a superhero, they can think of their opposite.
Encourage them to speak their ideas out loud and then to say the sentence they want to write. This will help them check that the sentence makes sense before they write it down.
Remind them that the comparisons are to help explain the superpowers and need to be linked to something familiar.
For example:
- Fiery superhero is as hot as the sun.
- Freezing superhero is as cold as the winter sea.
- Superhero kangaroo jumps as high as a double-decker bus.
- Slithery snake superhero slides as low as the daisies.
You might want to give them the 📄 Super Superhero Words.
Reading & Writing - Extra Challenge
Encourage your student to join their sentences with ‘but’.
For example:
- Sleepy sloth is as lazy as my brother, but lively kangaroo is as energetic as me.
Reading & Writing - Extra Support
Do as above but ask questions to support.
Ask:
- Would ‘loud superhero’ be the opposite of ‘screaming superhero’?
No, so what is the opposite of ‘loud’? Yes, quiet! So, let’s think of a quiet superhero too!
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 opposites and opposite pairs.’
‘Your letters are nicely formed and clear. That makes them easier to read.’
Handwriting and Spelling
Challenge your student to think of words that end in ‘-ing’. They should write as many as they can in two minutes, using their best handwriting.