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Superheroes

Objectives

To read labels, lists and captions to find information.

To sequence sentences to form short narratives.

Resources

Laptop, PC or tablet | Mini whiteboard and pen | Pencils | Pens | A4 sheet of paper

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 📄 Word Bank and write these onto 📄 blank flashcards.

Have the printed and trimmed **📄 Word Group Flashcards**needed for today’s lesson ready to use.

Print out the 📄 Word Group Sentences Step 36.

Print two copies of the 📄 Superhero ID form.

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 ‘ci’ on the mini whiteboard. Tell your student that in a few words the letters ‘ci’ make the sound ‘sh’ (as in ‘ancient’).

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

Show your student the flashcards with the letters ‘ci’ in them – ‘ancient’, ‘special’, ‘social’, ‘precious’, ‘vicious’.

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 36. 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 hyena was vicious.

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:

viciously | specialist | socially

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

Remind your student of their new superhero ideas they were having in the previous session.

Give them 30 seconds to tell you all that they remember about their new superhero.

Reading & Writing - Main Activity

Then ask your student some questions about the history of their superhero’s superpowers.

Ask:

How did they discover their powers?
Have all of their family got special powers?
When did they discover them?
What did they think about their powers?
Where they happy or scared?
How have they used their superpowers?

Tell your student that they are also going to think about a ‘baddy’ character who their superhero is opposed to. This might be, for example, a robber, someone who harms animals, someone who is trying to take over the village or town, and so on.

Give them some time to imagine the ‘baddy’ in their heads.

Then show your student the 📄 Superhero ID form.

Explain that they will fill in their own one of these all about their superhero and then one about the ‘baddy’ they imagine.

Show them how to do this by modelling filling in one section of the form. Then let your student do it themselves, with you offering support when needed.

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 about amazing ideas and what special powers your superhero could have.’

‘You are carefully filling in the ID form, which will make it easier to remember the details of your superhero.’

Handwriting and Spelling

This lesson, please can you:

Encourage your student to read through their writing to make sure they have spelt words correctly. Have they used their best handwriting?

Words they need to look out for are:

all, are, my, her, went, it’s, from, children, just, help

Ask them to write a sentence with one of these words in it.
Ask them to look for these words in one of their reading or bedtime books.