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Superheroes

Objectives

To ask questions to extend understanding.

To learn to punctuate sentences, using question marks, exclamation marks and a full stop.

Resources

Vocabulary

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

Today's Lesson

What to Get Ready

Familiarise yourself with the section ‘Ants’ from the book Fantastic Nature.

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 Week 36.

Print out a copy of the 📄 Comic Strip Template.

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 letter ‘s’ on the mini whiteboard. Tell your student that in a few words the letter ‘s’ makes the sound ‘zh’ – this is similar to ‘sh’. Say ‘measure’ – the ‘zh’ sound is the sound the ‘s’ makes.

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

Show your student the flashcards with the letter sound ‘s’ (as in ‘-sure’) in them – ‘measure’, ‘treasure’, ‘pleasure’.

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 pirates found some treasure.

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:

treasured | measuring | pleasures

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

Reading - Read

Support your student as they read the section ‘Ants’ from Fantastic Nature. Before your student begins reading, look at the contents page together and talk through the Topic Words on page 88.

Tell your student that you would like to hear them making the reading sound interesting.

Say, ‘Even when we are reading information, we can use our voice to make the reading sound interesting.’

Practise this by reading some of the definitions from the Glossary, making the reading smooth, adding emphasis to important words.

Support your student as they read the text, prompting 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 103 of the book.

Reading - 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.’

Reading - Extra Support

Share the reading with your student but make sure they are reading at least 4-5 pages themselves in order to build reading stamina.

Reading - What to Notice

Is your student becoming increasingly able to read accurately, at a good pace, while thinking about how the reading sounds? Keep praising them for all of their attempts at correcting their mistakes and making the reading sound good.

Writing - Introduction

Look at the examples of comic book strips you have collected. Talk about the features of comic strips together.

Point out to your student that the speech bubbles contain the dialogue (speech) and tell most of the story, but that the action, where necessary, is written outside of these at the bottom or top of the ‘frame’ (box).

Writing - Main Activity

Show your student the 📄 Comic Strip Template. If you need this to be larger, draw three boxes on a large sheet of paper.

Talk together about what they would like to happen in each frame (box).

For example:

Frame 1 – Superhero rescues cat.

Frame 2 – Baddy attacks Superhero.

Frame 3 – Baddy tries to run off with the cat, but Superhero uses special powers to freeze Baddy.

Give your student time to draw these three scenes. Explain that they do not need to rush - they can complete it in the next session if they need more time.

Then, help your student draw their characters (Superhero and Baddy) and write the first part of their dialogue for them in the speech bubbles.

They may also want to write sentences about the action at the bottom or top of the frame. Encourage them to use ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘or’ and to use clear handwriting and finger spaces.

Challenge your student to include ‘-ing’ words in their writing and remind them of their plural work (adding ‘-s’ and ‘-es’). You may want to re-read the 📄 Summary of Spelling Rules.

Writing - What to Notice

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

For example:

‘Your pictures are very good and detailed.’

‘Your writing is clear and easy to read because you remembered your finger spaces!’

Handwriting and Spelling

This lesson, please can you:

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

Words they need to look out for are:

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