LD Literacy Page

The Alphabet Song

Lesson Content:

Learning the alphabet in upper and lower case through music and visual prompts.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the 26 alphabet letters in lower case and upper case.
• Begins to memorise the alphabet letters through music, visual supports and fun repetitions.

The Alphabet And Sounds To Start Words

Lesson Content:

Learning the short sound alphabet with pictures and 3-letter words. Introducing special partner blends such as ‘th’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’ & ‘wh’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Builds 3-letter words with the short sounds of the alphabet.
• Reads 3-letter words with the aid of pictures.
• Recognises more special partner letters ‘th’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’ & ‘wh’.
• Sees and follows the mouth movements required for the alphabet sounds.

Introducing Capital Letters

Lesson Content:

Focusing on capital letters and their use.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the 26 alphabet symbols in capital letters.
• Knows that all sentences start with a capital letter.
• Understands the use of capital letters for names of people, places, titles and events.

The Alphabet Sound Song A – E

Lesson Content:

The first verse and chorus of the Alphabet Sound Song including; common special parnters.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to voice the common sounds for letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘e’ & ‘f’.
• Understands that ‘c’ can say ‘cuh’ and ‘sss’
• Introduces the ‘ch’ special partner combination.

Sounding Out Short Words

Lesson Content:

Introducing phonemes and the silent letters ‘e’, ‘h’ & ‘u’. Introducing double letters in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Able to read words out loud using phonemes.
• Builds confidence by reading the words out loud.
• Gains knowledge of silent letters within words.
• Discovers a new special partner letter combination ‘mb’.

Writing Capital Letters

Lesson Content:

Demonstrating how to write capital letters utilising templates.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns where to place a pen and the directional flow for writing each capital letter.
• Able to write capital letters through the repeated use of templates for each letter.
• Learns the poem – 30 days Has September…

The Alphabet Sounds Song G – K

Lesson Content:

The second verse and chorus of the Alphabet Sound Song; including common special parnters. Revision of the first verse.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Able to identify and voice the common sounds for the letters ‘g’ ‘h’ ‘i’ ‘j’ ‘k’
• Knows the special partner blend ‘ck’.
• Learns that ‘G’ can say ‘guh’ and ‘juh’
• Begins to memorise the alphabet sounds by revision of the first verse of The Alphabet Sound Song.

Syllables In Words

Lesson Content:

Introducing syllables and utilising chin movements and drum rhythms to assist students.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Able to pronounce 2 and 3 syllable words.
• Understands the importance of chin movement to sound words out loud.
• Knows the months of the year and days of the week using words from 2 to 4 syllables.
• Senses achievement knowing longer words.

Using Capital Letters In Sentences

Lesson Content:

Introducing the relationship between capital letters and full stops within sentences.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Knows where to use capital letters.
• Understands the partnership between capital letters and full stops.
• Learns the poem – 30 days has September…

The Alphabet Sounds Song L – P

Lesson Content:

The third verse and chorus of the Alphabet Sound Song; including common special parnters.
Revision of the first and second verses.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Able to identify and voice the letters ‘l’ ‘m’ ‘n’ ‘o’ &‘p’.
• Learns the special partner blends ‘kn’ and ‘ph’.
• Aware that not all good writers are good spellers.
• Continues to memorise the first, second and third verses of The Alphabet Sound Song.

The Letter y Y And Vowels In Syllables

Lesson Content:

Dividing the alphabet into vowels and consonants. Introducing the letter ‘y’ which can behave as a vowel.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Knows the 5 letters ‘a’ ‘e’ ‘i’ ‘o’ ‘u’ are vowels.
• Understands the letter ‘y’ behaves like a vowel.
• Discovers the rules of vowels in syllables.
• Learns that ‘Y’ in a word can be pronounced as ‘yuh’ ‘i’ ‘ee’ ‘ih’.

Full Stops

Lesson Content:

Learning rhymes with hand clapping to reinforce the kinesthetic memory of taking a break after sentences.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Understands that full stops end a sentence and a breath should be taken between sentences.
• Learns “Little Dot” rhyme with hand clapping.
• Builds long term memory, by using physical stimulus learning “Red Hats” rhyme.

The Alphabet Song Q R S T U

Lesson Content:

The fourth verse and chorus of the Alphabet Sound Song; including common special partners.

Revision of the first, second and third verses.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to identify and voice ‘qu’ ‘r’ ‘s’ ‘sh’ ‘t’ ‘th’ & ‘u’.
• Continues to memorise the alphabet sounds by revision of the first, second, third and fourth verses of the Alphabet Sound Song.

Special Partners CH TH SH PH.

Lesson Content:

Introducing special partner blend letters in words whilst explaining their meanings.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to voice ‘th’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’ & ‘ph’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods: – using highlighters or pencils.
• Understand more difficult words and their meanings.

Capital Letters And Full Stops.

Lesson Content:

Reading the story A Book Joke, followed by teacher guided activity to add capital letters and full stops to revise punctuation.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Practises reading words.
• Revises where and why capital letters and full stops are used.
• Reinforces multi-sensory tools for memory retention: – clapping hands and forming ‘C’ with hand.

The Alphabet Sound Song V W X Y & Z.

Lesson Content:

The final verse and chorus of the Alphabet Sound Song; including common special partners.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to identify and voice ‘v’ ‘w’ ‘wh’ ‘x’ ‘y’ ‘z’.
• Continues to memorise the alphabet sounds by revision of the first, second, third, fourth and final verse of the Alphabet Sound Song.

Vowel Sounds And Syllable Rules.

Lesson Content:

Explaining the vowel sound rules based on where it sits in the syllable. Learning the days of the week and

Skills Gained By Student:

• Accrues ways to help remember the number of days in the months of the year.
• Learns that vowels are mostly long sounds when at the end of a syllable or word.
• Understands every syllable must have a vowel.

Capital Letters And Full Stops In Sentences.

Lesson Content:

Understanding the purpose of sentences and the role of capital letters and full stops for the reader and writer.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Knows every sentence must make sense.
• Understands why we use sentences.
• Reviews 6 examples of complete sentences.
• Practices reading together.

The Letter a A Short Sound.

Lesson Content:

Composing words using the short sound ‘a-’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Ability to join the short sound ‘a‘ to other letters to make words.
• Participates in teacher guided 28 examples incorporating reading, writing and spelling.

Common Words No. 1.

Lesson Content:

Presenting the first list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘A’, ‘an’, ‘I’, ‘and’, ‘in’, ‘is’, ‘it’ & ‘to’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘for’, ‘that’, ‘the’, ‘my’, ‘of’, ‘was’, ‘you’ & ‘all’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • – Writing repetition.
  • – Coloured letter stickers.
  • – Ladder activity.

Capital Letters For Names.

Lesson Content:

Learning when to use capital letters for purposes other than starting sentences.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns capital letters are also used for; titles, calendars, religions, diplomats, animal breeds, plants, geography, astronomy, exclamations, historical names, government, local government, royalty, scouts and trading names.
• Understands the special word; ‘I’.

The Letter e E Short Sound.

Lesson Content:

Composing words using the short sound ‘e-’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Ability to join the short sound ‘e‘ to other letters to make words.
• Participates in teacher guided 28 examples incorporating reading, writing and spelling.

Letter e E At The End Of Words.

Lesson Content:

In depth study of the long vowel ‘e_’ in short words. Detailed look at longer words with a silent ‘e’ and the rules when adding ‘e’ to the end of an existing word.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises short words; she, he & me.
• Learns longer words with silent ‘e’.
• Understands ‘E’ on the end of a word makes the first vowel its long sound.
• Discovers adding ‘e’ to the end of a word changes it to a new word.

Full Stops To Finish A Sentence.

Lesson Content:

Revising what makes a correct sentence and teacher guided practice at turning incorrect sentences into complete ones.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revising what makes a sentence.
• Recognises why a sentence is incomplete.
• Practices sentences with 11 examples of correct and incorrect sentences.

The Letter i I Short Sound

Lesson Content:

Composing words using the short sound ‘i-‘.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Ability to join the short sound ‘i‘ to other letters to make words.
• Participates in teacher guided 28 examples incorporating reading, writing and spelling.

Common Words No. 2

Lesson Content:

Presenting the second list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘His’, ‘her’, ‘had’, ‘not’, ‘so’, ‘he’, ‘on’, ‘we’, ‘at’, ‘with’ & ‘but’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘are’, ‘as’, ‘have’, ‘one’, & ‘they’.
• Learns the meaning of 25%
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • Singing
  • Trampoline/jumping.
  • Shaving cream.

What Is A Comma?

Lesson Content:

Introducing commas using a poem; When You See A Comma, Click Your Fingers and a story about a boy named Sam.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises commas.
• Learns why commas are used in sentences.
• Reinforces multi-sensnory learning tools for memory retention: – clicking fingers to pause.

The Letter o O Short Sound

Lesson Content:

Composing words using the short sound ‘o-‘.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Ability to join the short sound ‘o‘ to other letters to make words.
• Participates in teacher guided 28 examples incorporating reading, writing and spelling.

Silent e E With u U & v V

Lesson Content:

Detailed look at the silent letter ‘e’ in combinations following ‘u’ and ‘v’. Revising every syllable must have a vowel.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Practices more words ending in ‘e’.
• Learns English words do not end in ‘v’ or ‘u’ (with exceptions.)
• Checks every syllable has a vowel.

Why Do We Use Commas?

Lesson Content:

Describing why commas are used in sentences and how a pause can change meaning.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns a comma shows how the writer intended the sentence to be read.
• Discovers how a little pause can change everything.
• Compares 3 examples with and without commas.

The Letter u U Short Sound

Lesson Content:

Composing words using the short sound ‘u-‘.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Ability to join the short sound ‘u’ to other letters to make words.
• Participated in teacher aided 28 examples incorporating reading, writing and spelling.

Common Words No. 3.

Lesson Content:

Presenting the third list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘this’, ‘be’, ‘go’, ‘if’, ‘me’, ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘or’ & ‘up’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘said’, ‘by’, ‘do’, ‘its’, ‘has’, ‘new’ & ‘now’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • Tracing paper.
  • Colours.
  • Bubble wrap.

When To Use Commas

Lesson Content:

Learning four examples of when commas are used.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Knows commas are used when writing a list.
• Learns commas are used when adding an extra thought to a sentence.
• Discovers comparative or contrasting statements.
• Observes commas used when speaking and pausing before direct and indirect speech.

Reading Sounds For Letter a A

Lesson Content:

Revising the short and long sounds of the letter ‘a’ and introducing the other reading sounds of ‘a’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Ability to identify and read the short and long sounds of the letter ‘a’.
• Discovers all the other ‘a’ reading sounds; ‘Ay’, ‘ah’, ‘o’, ‘or’, & ‘uh’.
• Uses drawing and visual aids to remember all the reading sounds of ‘a’.

Silent e E With c C & g G

Lesson Content:

Detailed look at the silent letter ‘e’ in combinations following ‘c’ and ‘g’. Revising every syllable must have a vowel.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises silent ‘e’ to change words and reviews words ending in ‘u’ & ‘v’.
• Learns ‘e’ after ‘g’ changes to a soft sound of ‘j’.
• Learns ‘e’ after ‘c’ changes to a soft sound of ‘s’.

Full Stops, Commas, Exclamation Marks, Question Marks And Talking Marks

Lesson Content:

Introducing other punctuation marks using a short story about Thomas Edison.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises exclamation marks, question marks and talking marks.
• Ability to highlight all punctuation used.
• Reinforces multi-sensory tools for memory retention using all previously learned hand gestures.

The Letter c C In Detail

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the letter ‘c’ and breaking the code on how to sound it when reading.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Discovers tips on how to crack the ‘c’ code.
• Learns ‘c’ says ‘sss’ before ‘e’, ‘i’, and ‘y’ in words.
• Practices drawing ‘c’ words to tell a story and assist memory.

Common Words No. 4

Lesson Content:

Presenting the fourth list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘big’, ‘can’, ‘did’, ‘get’, ‘him’, ‘off’, ‘old’ & ‘see’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘our’, ‘out’, ‘two’, ‘who’, ‘what’ & ‘how’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • White pebbles.
  • Coloured chalk
  • Bouncing ball.

Question Marks

Lesson Content:

Learning how to draw question marks and why they are used in sentences.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns a question mark has a full stop at the bottom and replaces the full stop.
• Recognises questions; Who? What? Where? Why? How? When? Can? Does? Are? Do? Did?
• Practices drawing question marks.

The Letter g G In Detail

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the letter ‘g’ and breaking the code on how to sound it when reading.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns that ‘g’ usually says ‘juh’ before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’ in words.
• Identifies that when ‘g’ is followed by an ‘a’, ‘o’ or ‘u’ it usually makes the sound ‘guh’.
• Draws ‘g’ words to tell a story to assist memory retention.

The Letter e E On The End Of Words

Lesson Content:

Continuing to focus on the letter ‘e’ and its role on the end of words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns ‘e’ on the end of one syllable words makes the vowel say its alphabet name.
• Revises words can’t end in ‘v’ and ‘u’.
• Revises ‘g’ changes to soft sound ‘juh’ and ‘c’ to soft sound ‘sss’.
• Learns five other uses of “odd job” ‘e’.

Exclamation Marks

Lesson Content:

Describing why exclamation marks are used in sentences.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns the meaning of exclaim.
• Practices short sentences ending in exclamation marks.
• Learns an exclamation mark has a full stop at the bottom and replaces the full stop.

The Letter o O In Detail

Lesson Content:

Looking closely at the letter ‘o’ and all the phonic sounds it makes in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learn s all the sounds the letter ‘o’ makes.
• Ability to sound ‘o-’, ‘oh’, ‘ew’ & ‘uh’.
• Draws ‘o’ words to tell a story to assist memory retention.

Common Words No. 5.

Lesson Content:

Presenting the fifth list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘way’, ‘back’, ‘been’, ‘came’, ‘from’, ‘into’, ‘just’, ‘like’, ‘made’, ‘much’ & ‘over’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘put’, ‘down’, ‘when’, ‘many’ & ‘come’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • Body movement.
  • Water writing.
  • Plasticine moulding

When To Use A Question Mark, Exclamation Mark Or Full Stop

Lesson Content:

Practicing selecting sentence punctuation endings.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises which punctuation mark to use at the end of sentences.
• Practices punctuation selection with 14 interactive examples circling the three choices.

The Letter u U In Detail

Lesson Content:

Looking closely at the letter ‘u’ and all the phonic sounds it makes in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns how to attack unfamiliar words.
• Able to sound ‘uh’, ‘you’, ‘oo’, ‘ew’ & ‘kw’.
• Draws ‘u’ words to tell a story to assist memory retention.

Discussions On Spelling

Lesson Content:

Discussing why spelling can be so difficult and the role of technology in assisting students.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Understands many people are not good spellers but that doesn’t mean they are not good writers.
• Learns that Information & Communication Technology (ICT) is assisting a writing revolution.
• Understands words can be frustrating due to phonics, spelling rules, building words, influences of foreign languages and the spoken word.

When And How To Use Apostrophes

Lesson Content:

Introducing apostrophes and looking at how and why they are used in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to replace missing letters in words with apostrophes.
• Able to make words shorter using contractions.
• Discovers the concept of ownership.
• Discovers apostrophe and ‘s’ indicate plurals of capital letter and number representations; ABC’s or 1000’s

Words Starting With 2 Letter ‘Blends’

Lesson Content:

Introducing consonant blends at the beginning of words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns teacher guided 2 letter beginning blends
• Practices reading and voicing words with a fun game timing against the clock.

Common Words No. 6

Lesson Content:

Presenting the sixth list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘went’, ‘must’, ‘will’, ‘than’, ‘make’, ‘this’, ‘well’, ‘then’ & ‘them’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘some’, ‘too’, ‘only’, ‘were’, ‘call’, ‘your’ & ‘here’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • Pastry cutting.
  • Skipping.
  • Writing in the air.

Apostrophes Used In Contractions

Lesson Content:

Introducing apostrophes used in contractions to join words together using adding and subtracting.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Identifies what a ‘contraction’ is.
• Identifies contractions with the words; ‘am’, ‘are’ & ‘is’.
• Able to read and voice; ‘I’m’, ‘you’re’, ‘we’re’, ‘they’re’, ‘he’s’, ‘she’s’, ‘it’s’ ‘there’s’ & ‘that’s’.

The Letter e E In Detail

Lesson Content:

Continuing to focus on the letter ‘e’ and how to sound it when reading and practicing how to write it.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to voice the sounds; ‘eh’, ‘ee’, silent ‘e’ & ‘uh’.
• Practices to voice, read and write an ‘e’ sentence about an elephant.

Prefixes And Suffixes

Lesson Content:

Introducing prefixes and suffixes that attach to root words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Understands concepts of a prefix and a suffix.
• Learns to pull words apart to work out their meaning.

Continuation Of Apostrophes Used In Contractions

Lesson Content:

Introducing more words using apostrophes used in contractions to join words together using adding and subtracting.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Identifies more contractions with the word; ‘would’.
• Able to read and voice; ’I’d’, ‘you’d’, ‘we’d’, ‘they’d’, ‘he’d’, ‘she’d’, ‘it’d’ & ‘there’d’.

Words Starting With 3 Letter ‘Blends’ And Special Partner ‘Blends’

Lesson Content:

Introducing more complicated consonant blends at the beginning of words as well as special partner blends.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Begins to put longer consonant blends together at the beginning of words.
• Identifies special partner blends at the beginning of words.
• Practices concept of voicing 2-3 letter blends with nonsense words.

Common Words No. 5.

Lesson Content:

Presenting the seventh list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘take’, ‘which’, ‘more’, ‘these’, ‘most’, ‘of’, ‘about’, ‘time’, ‘look’ & ‘after’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘why’, ‘write’, ‘would’, ‘know’, ‘right’ & ‘through’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • Finger painting.
  • Voice recording.

Continuation Of Apostrophes Used In Contractions

Lesson Content:

Introducing more words using apostrophes used in contractions to join words together using adding and subtracting.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Identifies more contractions with the word; ‘will’.
• Able to read and voice; ‘I’ll’, ‘you’ll’, ‘we’ll’, ‘they’ll’, ‘he’ll’, ‘she’ll’, ‘it’ll’, ‘there’ll’, & ‘this’ll’.

The Letter i I In Detail

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the letter ‘i’ and breaking the code on how to voice it when reading.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to voice the sounds; ‘ih’, ‘iy’, ‘eh’, ‘ee’, & ‘uh’.
• Practices to voice, read and write an ‘i’ sentence about a spider fish and a rabbit.

Most Commonly Used Prefixes

Lesson Content:

Introducing 14 of the most commonly used prefixes and their common meanings.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns the prefixes; ‘un-’, ‘re-’, ‘in-’, ‘im-’, ‘il-’, ‘ir’, ‘dis-’, ‘en-’, ‘em-’ ‘non-’, ‘over-’, ‘mis-’, ‘sub-’ & ‘pre-’.
• Understands words with prefixes and their structure.

Continuation Of Apostrophes Used In Contractions

Lesson Content:

Completing more words using apostrophes used in contractions to join words together using adding and subtracting.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Identifies more contractions with the word; ‘not’.
• Able to read and voice; ‘don’t’, ‘doesn’t’, ‘didn’t’, ‘isn’t’, ‘aren’t’, ‘wasn’t’ & ‘weren’t’.

Words Ending In 2 Letter ‘Blends’

Lesson Content:

Introducing consonant blends at the end of words and then advancing to blends at the beginning and the end of words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns teacher guided 2 letter consonant blends at the end of words.
• Practices reading, writing and voicing words with a consonant blends at the beginning and end of words.

Common Words No. 8

Lesson Content:

Presenting the eighth list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘before’, ‘use’, ‘first’, ‘want’, ‘good’, ‘little’, ‘very’, ‘other’, ‘today’ & ‘back’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘their’, ‘people’, ‘could’, ‘there’, ‘where’ & ‘they’re’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
• Sees and follows the mouth movements required for the alphabet sounds.
  • Typing on keyboards.
  • Flashcards.
  • Finger tracing on textiles.

Conjunctions

Lesson Content:

Introducing sentences with conjunctions and the use of commas.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Joins sentences using the basic conjunctions; ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘or’, ‘yet’, ‘so’, ‘for’ & ‘nor’.
• Begins to join sentences using commas with conjunctions.

‘ŋ’ Words Ending In ‘ng’

Lesson Content:

Introducing words ending in ‘ng’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns the technique to voice words ending in ‘ng’.
• Discovers some examples of ‘ng’ words that are exceptions; ‘engine’, ‘language’, ‘kangaroo’ & ‘anger’.

Continuation Of Commonly Used Prefixes

Lesson Content:

Introducing another nine commonly used prefixes attached to root words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to pull words apart to work out their meaning.
• Learns the prefixes; ‘Inter’, ‘fore’, ‘de’, ‘trans’, ‘super’, ‘semi’, ‘anti’, ‘mid’, & ‘under’.
• Understands words with prefixes and their structure.

Advanced Conjunctions To Make Sentences More Powerful

Lesson Content:

Introducing more advanced conjuctions.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Joins sentences using the conjunctions; ‘because’, ‘while’, ‘however’, ‘when’, ‘until’, ‘unless’, ‘before’, ‘whether’, ‘once’ & ‘provided’.
• Expands on joining sentences using conjunction with commas.

Continuation Of Words Beginning With 2 Letter ‘Blends’

Lesson Content:

Revising and assessing reading speed of 2 letter blend words by student self-assessment.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Practices reading and voicing words beginning with 2 letter ‘blends’.
• Measures progress by self-assessment with fun blend racing against a time clock.
• Gains confidence from a tangible measurement of repeating an activity to experience progress and improvement.

Common Words No. 9

Lesson Content:

Presenting the ninth list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time..

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘man, ‘three’, ‘girl’, ‘number’, ‘same’, ‘mum’, ‘dad’, ‘think’, ‘work’ & ‘word’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘woman’, ‘women’, ‘boy’ ‘around’, ‘does’ & ‘mother’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • Whiteboard.
  • Sketch-a-doodle.
  • Window writing.

Fancy Conjunctions

Lesson Content:

Building on more advanced conjunctions used in sentences.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Joins sentences using the conjunctions; ‘nevertheless’, ‘moreover’, ‘in addition’, ‘furthermore’, ‘consequently’, ‘even though’, ‘meanwhile’ &’ ‘on the contrary’.
• Builds creative confidence to construct meaningful and interesting sentences.

Revision Of Alphabet, Vowels, Consonants, Phonemes, Syllables, Lazy Vowels and ŋ

Lesson Content:

Revising all the phonics covered during program from A1-F15. Session requires extra time allowance to cover revision content.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises what has been learned so far.
• Builds confidence when student can see how far they have come.
• Able to read, write and voice; the alphabet, short and long sound vowels, special partner blends, phonemes.
• Understands consonant–vowel-consonant word structures and the rhythm of syllables.

Most Commonly Used Word Endings & Suffixes

Lesson Content:

Introducing suffixes attached to root words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learn the suffixes; ‘s’, ‘’es’, ‘ed’, ‘ing’, ‘ly’, ‘ily’, ‘er’, ‘or’, & ‘ar’.
• Understands the structure of words with suffixes.

Revision For Punctuation.

Lesson Content:

Revising all the punctuation covered during the program from A3-E24.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises what has been learned so far.
• Builds confidence when students see what they have learned so far.
• Recognises and understands the use of; capital letters, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, talking marks and apostrophes.

Lazy Vowels

Lesson Content:

Introducing “Schwa” vowels in words and how we speak.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Discovers how speech patterns have changed over time and introduced the sounds ‘uh’ &‘er’.
• Learns examples for the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’ &‘y’.

Final Common Words No. 10

Lesson Content:

Presenting the final list of 16 words in the English language that are used 25% of the time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises the words; ‘father’, ‘sister’, ‘brother’, ‘grandma’, ‘grandpa’, ‘aunty’, ‘uncle’ &‘cousin’.
• Focuses on harder words; ‘said’, ‘who’, ‘were’, ‘how’, ‘know’, ‘would’, ‘put’ &‘our’.
• Acquires multi-sensory learning methods:
  • Tracing fonts.
  • Using word walls.
  • Using website: wordle.com

Good Punctuation Is Powerful

Lesson Content:

Using punctuaton to experience how it was used in the powerful speech; ‘I have a dream’ by Martin Luther King.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Uses punctuation to see how ‘Bullying Stops Here’ has impact.
• Understands a good speech may contain:
  • Rhetorical questions.
  • Repetition.
  • Lists of three.
  • Contrasts.
  • Emotive language.
  • Direct address.
  • Evidence.

26 Consonant Sounds And 19 Vowel Sounds

Lesson Content:

Identifying the 45 sounds of the English language.

Consonants:
-Plosives, Nasals, Fricatives, Affricates, Laterals, Glides, and Combinations.

Vowels:
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Skills Gained By Student:

• Discovers different types of consonant sounds and how to voice them.
• Revises the vowel sounds and learns to voice the combination vowel sounds.

Double Consonants

Lesson Content:

Introducing common spelling rules when vowels are follwed by a double consonant.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises short sound vowels are voiced when they are followed by a double consonant.
• Recognises long sound vowels are voiced when they are followed by a single consonant.

Adding Prefixes, Suffixes & Word Endings

Lesson Content:

Reinforcing the rules of prefixes and suffixes when spelling and writing words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Understands that when adding a prefix to a word, the spelling of the base word stays the same.
• Understands that when adding a consonant suffix or word ending, to a word, the spelling of the base word usually stays the same.
• Learns that when adding a vowel suffix or word ending to a word, often changes the base word spelling.

Decoding Vowel Blends

Lesson Content:

Introducing five strategies to help decode the reading, writing and spelling of vowel sounds.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to look closely at words.
• Knows to ignore some letters.
• Tries likely vowel sounds.
• Recognises patterns in words.
• Builds the confidence to -Have a go!

Advanced Vowel Sound Combinations

Lesson Content:

Combining up to 4 letters to make some of the ‘a’ and ‘e’ vowel sounds.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns vowel sounds, can be represented by 2, 3 or 4 letters.
• Focuses on the ‘a’ vowel combinations.
• Focuses on the ‘e’ vowel combinations.

Singular And Plural Words

Lesson Content:

Introducing the concept of singular and plural words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Understands the difference between singular and plural.
• Discovers the 9 rules to convert words from singular into plural.
• Practices writing to convert words into plural using each rule.

Controlling r R Following A Vowel

Lesson Content:

Introducing the controlling letter ‘r’ after a vowel.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Understands that ‘er’, ‘ir’ &‘ur’ sound the same.
• Revises the lazy vowel sound ‘uh’ with ‘r’ combinations.
• Learns the letter ‘r’ can control every vowel in the alphabet.

Continuation Of r R Following Vowels

Lesson Content:

Continuing with the controlling letter ‘r’ after a vowel.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns the three rules for the ‘er’ sounds; ‘er’, ‘ir’, ‘ur’ ‘wor’, ‘ear’ &‘our’.
• Looks for an ‘r’ following a vowel within the same syllable.
• Discovers wicked ‘w’ that can also affect ‘er’ sound.
• Learns ‘ear’ can also sound like ‘er’ when combined with consonants.

Tenses – Present, Future & Past

Lesson Content:

Introducing the three stages of tense and how to convert a word through the three stages of time.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Practices changing singular words to plural.
• Practices changing words and sentences from one tense to another.
• Understands how tense relates to the time being in the past, present or future.

20 Vowel Sounds

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the sounds of vowels using visual and voicing techniques.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Practices the ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’ ‘o’ and ‘u’ groups including short, long and combinations.
• Practices the lazy vowel group ‘er’ & ‘uh’ combinations.

Letter Combinations ey ay & y

Lesson Content:

Focusing on long vowel sound combinations using visual and voicing techniques.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns and practices the long vowel sound for ‘ey’, ‘ay’ and ‘y’ combinations.
• Uses tracing technique to aid memory retention.

Rules To Make Words Plural

Lesson Content:

Revising the rules to make singular words into plural words with interactive learning.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Writes the missing letters in singular words to make them plural.
• Combines reading, spelling and writing practice changing words from singular to plural.
• Revises concept of one to many.
• Revises the rules to retain, change or add to the end of singular words to make them plural.

Vowel ‘A’ Combinations – Part 1

Lesson Content:

Introducing Part One of all the sounds for the vowel ‘a’ and its related letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice ‘a’ sounds in the words including; apple, angel, ate, ask, ago, watch, sausage, water, walk sauce, daughter, dinosaur, straw, warm, Michael, Australia & many.

Vowel ‘A’ Combinations – Part 2

Lesson Content:

Introducing Part Two of the sounds for the vowel ‘a’ and it’s related letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognize and voice ‘a’ sounds in the words including; bandaid, play, straight, gauge, star, laugh, scary, aardvark, plaits, chair, mare, aeroplane, mayor prayer, algae, aye, are, chaos said & quay.

Compound Words

Lesson Content:

Introducing the meaning of the word ‘compound’ and ‘compound words’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Joins two complete words together to form a new word.
• Learns 21 examples of compound words.
• Learns the spelling of words does not change when joining words to make a compound word.

Revision Of ‘A’ Vowel Sound Combinations

Lesson Content:

Practicing a selection of 30 words for the ‘a’ vowel sounds.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Creates a template by writing all the symbols for the sounds of ‘a’ combinations
• Retains visual cues for long-term memory.

15 Ways To Spell The ‘Long Sound’ A

Lesson Content:

Introducing more letter combinations that spell the long sound ‘a’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice the long sound ‘a’ in words including; baby, cake, play, chain, steak, gauge, straight, vein, eight, grey, champagne, cafe bouquet, fete & crepe.

Grammar Terms

Lesson Content:

Introducing; Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives and Prepositions.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Understands the meaning of Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives & Prepositions.
• Works with colour coding to aid memory of each term.
• Identifies an example of each grammar term within a sentence.

The Letter ‘A’ Combinations In A Story

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – David’s 8th Birthday.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads a teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Uses colour indicators to work out the sounds of the ‘a’ vowel combination words within the story.

Revision Of The Letter c C

Lesson Content:

Revising the letter ‘c’ can be voiced as a hard or soft sound.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises ‘c’ says ‘cuh’ & ‘sss’.
• Learns the rule, soft sound ‘sss’ is used when ‘c’ is followed by ‘e’, ‘i’, or ‘y’.
• Practices reading words containing the letter ‘c’.

Nouns

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the grammar term ‘Noun’ and what a Noun is.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises what Nouns are.
• Understands Nouns are a person, place or thing.
• Discovers some Nouns have capital letters
• Learns Nouns can be singular or plural.

Spelling The Sound ‘air’

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the ‘air’ phonic sound and all the related spelling combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise, voice and spell ‘air’ sounds.
• Works with the combination examples; ‘air’, ‘ear’, ‘ayer’, ‘ar’ ‘are’ ‘ere’ ‘ey’re’ ‘aer’ ‘eyre’ ‘eah’ ‘ayor’ &‘eir’.

The Letter ‘A’ Combinations In A Short Story

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – The Aardvark’s Adventure.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Practices using colour indicators to work out the phonic sounds of the letter ‘a’ vowel combination words within the story.

Verbs

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the grammar term ‘Verb’ and what a Verb is.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises what Verbs are.
• Understands Verbs are action or doing words.
• Discovers Verbs can be a state of existence.
• Learns that Verbs can change in form and tense.
• Spotlights the Verb is ‘king’ and that one verb can be a whole sentence.

Revision of ‘A’ Vowel Combinations

Lesson Content:

Interactive learnng to write the short and long vowel sounds revising the ‘a’ vowel letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Challenges the memory to create a personal sound library of all the ‘a’ vowel combinations.
• Uses pictorial examples of short and long ‘a’ vowel sounds.
• Practices voicing using words containing; ‘ay’, ‘ar’, ‘aw’, ‘ai’, ‘au’, ‘aye’, ‘ae’, ‘are’, &‘aigh’.

The Sounds “sh’n” And “sh’l”

Lesson Content:

Introducing the spelling patterns that make the sounds “sh’n” and “sh’l”.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to voice the two sounds “sh’n” and “sh’l”.
• Writes words ending in ‘tion’, ‘tian’, ‘sion’ &‘cian’.
• Writes words ending in ‘tial’ &‘cial’
• Practices voicing using tracking technique.

Adverbs

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the grammar term ‘Adverb‘ and what an Adverb is.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises what Adverbs are.
• Understands Adverbs add to a verb to tell us more.
• Studies examples of Adverbs in sentences.
• Understands the purpose of Adverbs to describe; how, when, where, how often and how much.

Vowel ‘E’ Combinations – Part One

Lesson Content:

Introducing Part One of all the sounds for the vowel ‘e’ and it’s related letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice ‘e’ sound combinations.
• Uses words with examples of the sounds; ‘ee’, ‘ea’, ‘ei’, ‘eigh’, ‘er’, ‘ew’ &‘ey’.

Vowel ‘E’ Combinations – Part Two

Lesson Content:

Introducing part two of all the sounds for the vowel ‘e’ and it’s related letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice more ‘e’ sound combinations.
• Uses words with examples of the sounds; ‘ear’, ‘eer’, ‘ere’, ‘er’, ‘eo’, ‘eu’, ‘ea’, ‘e’, ‘ei’, ‘eye’, ‘eir’, ‘re’, &‘ew’.
• Revises the silent ‘e’.

Adjectives

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the grammar term ‘Adjective’ and what an Adjective is.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises what Adjectives are.
• Understands Adjectives are describing words to add to nouns or objects.
• Learns Adjectives can come after verbs.
• Studies examples on how to use Adjectives.
• Joins in fun activity describing Martha the chicken.

Practicing ‘E’ Vowel Combinations

Lesson Content:

Practicing all the ‘e’ vowel letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Uses examples of short and long vowel ‘e’.
• Learns to recognise and voice ‘e’ sounds in the words including; ‘egg’, ‘me’, ‘Eve’, ‘green’, ‘feather’, ‘either’, ‘height’, ‘eight’, ‘mother’, ‘term’, ‘drew’, ‘they’, ‘hear’, ‘pear’, ‘heart’, ‘beer’, ‘hear’, ‘people’, ‘eye’, ‘pretty’, ‘where?’, ‘sew’, ‘monkeys’, ‘earth’, ‘early’, ‘empty’, ‘spread’, ‘stew’, ‘the’ & ‘please’.

The Letter ‘E’ Combinations In A Short Story

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – The Beach.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Practices using colour indicators to work out the sounds of the ‘e’ vowel combination words within the story.

Prepositions

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the grammar term ‘Preposition’ and what a Preposition is.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises what Prepositions are.
• Studies examples on how to use Prepositions.
• Understands Prepositions show the relationship between a noun and another word in a sentence.
• Uses examples of the position of something, the time of something and the way in which something is done.

Spelling The Long Vowel Sound ‘E’

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the long vowel sound ‘e’ and the spelling of the related vowel letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to spell the long vowel sound ‘e’.
• Practices reading and voicing words containing the examples; ‘e’, ‘ee’, ‘ea’, ‘ie’, ‘ei’, ‘y’, ‘ey’ ‘i’, ‘eo’ & ‘ay’.

Attacking Words To Create Syllables

Lesson Content:

Learning how to break longer words (that have never been seen before ) into syllables using rules.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to look for the first vowel or a ‘y’ in a word to break longer words into syllables.
• Uses previously learnt rules to look for consonants and twin consonants to divide the words into syllables.
• Builds confidence that the rules apply to all words in the English language by reading words that are nonsensical

Talking Marks

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the use of Talking Marks and their rules using hand actions.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Discovers Talking Marks always come in pairs that need to be opened and closed.
• Learns when to use single and double Talking Marks.
• Learns that Talking Marks are used to identify;
  • ‘Direct quotes’
  • For ‘direct speech’ or to ‘show irony’
  • To show unusual usage of words or to highlight a word rather than it’s meaning
  • Learns that talking marks can be used to reference a title of works and for nicknames.

Some Consonants Are Silent

Lesson Content:

Introducing words containing silent consonant letters.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to be aware of silent consonant combinations.
• Practices with combinations using the letters; ‘b’, ‘g’, ‘gh’, ‘h’, ‘k’, ‘w’ & ‘c’.
• Identifies the silent letters in words like; debt, gnome, sigh, ghost, know, who & neck.

The Silent Letter ‘G’

Lesson Content:

Learning to ignore some consonants; focusing on the letter ‘g’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises the silent ‘g’ and vowel sound combinations.
• Practices examples; ‘gn’, ‘gm’, ‘augh’, ‘ough’, ‘eigh’, ‘aigh’, & ‘igh’.
• Voices silent ‘g’ words as well as learning the meaning of the words.

Talking Marks And Commas

Lesson Content:

Focusing on Talking Marks in direct speech and conversations with the placement of Commas.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns commas go inside talking marks, where the direct speech, is interrupted by the person speaking.
• Learns commas go before the talking marks, where the speaker is interrupted by the direct speech.
• Learns that the first letter of direct speech is always a capital letter.
• Learns that if direct speech is interrupted in a sentence by the speaker, a capital letter is not required for subsequent direct speech as the sentence continues.

Revision of all ‘E’ Vowel combinations

Lesson Content:

Practicing and creating a library of 31 words for the letter ‘e’ vowel sound and related letter combinations

Skills Gained By Student:

• Creates a template by writing all the symbols for the sound of ‘e’.
• Retains visual cues for long-term memory.

The Letters ‘ck’ and ‘k’

Lesson Content:

Introducing the hard ‘cuh’ sound and the rules for when it is used.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Discovers no English word begins with ‘ck’
• Learns vowels before ‘ck’ are always short vowel sounds.
• Learns vowels before ‘k’ can be short or long vowel sounds.
• Uses examples of words beginning with ‘k’, words ending with ‘k’, ‘ck’ & words beginning with ‘kh’.

Punctuation Marks Inside Talking Marks

Lesson Content:

Building on the study of direct speech with full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and commas.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to place full stops, question marks and exclamation marks inside talking marks when using direct speech.
• Revises the use of commas inside and outside talking marks.
• Practices direct speech to start a sentence and to finish a sentence.

The Letter ‘I’ Vowel Combinations

Lesson Content:

Introducing the letter ‘i’ and related vowel letter combinations. Extra time required to cover all letter combinations in single tutorial.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to read and voice all the short and long ‘i’ vowel combinations.
• Practices using examples words containing the combinations; ‘i’, ‘ie’, ‘is’, ‘ier’, ‘iew’, ‘ire’, ‘io’, ‘ine’, ‘ir’, & ‘ian’.

Revision Of The ‘I’ Vowel Sounds

Lesson Content:

Revising the short and long sounds of the ‘i’ vowel letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice words with short and long ‘i’ letter combinations.
• Challenges the memory to create a personal sound library of all the ‘i’ vowel combinations.
• Uses examples, ‘i’, ‘ir’ ‘ie’, ‘ig’, ‘igh’, ‘is’, ‘ier’, ‘ion’ & ‘ire’.

Short Story Using All Punctuation Marks

Lesson Content:

Revising all punctuation marks using an excerpt from the story – Alice In Wonderland.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Highlights punctuation using colour and hand actions.
• Practices punctuation when reading a dialogue between the pack of card characters 2,5,6 and Alice.
• Understands the power of speech and value of punctuation to relay intent.

Spelling The Long Vowel Sound ‘I’

Lesson Content:

Introducing the long vowel sound ‘i’.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to spell the long vowel sound ‘i’.
• Practices reading and voicing words containing the examples; ‘i’, ‘igh’, ‘y’, ‘ai’, ‘ei’, ‘eigh’, ‘uy’ ‘eye’ & ‘ye’.

The Letter ‘I’ Combinations In A Short Story

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – Princess Indy.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Practices using colour indicators to work out the sounds for the letter ‘i’ vowel combination words within the story.

Sentence Construction Using Punctuation

Lesson Content:

Revising how to construct succinct sentences from a “Never Ending” sentence.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises how to use punctuation to construct sentences within a paragraph of words.
• Uses prompts of ‘who’, or ‘what’, ‘where’, when’ or ‘why’ to guide learning.

Revision of ‘I’ Vowel Combinations

Lesson Content:

Revising the vowel sound ‘i’ and and it’s related vowel letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise the short and long ‘i’ sounds and partner vowel combinations.
• Learns to recognise and voice the ‘i’ sounds and combinations in the word examples; insect, kind, island, sign, tied, high, giraffe, piece, bird, fire, machine, friends, view and pierce

Spelling The ‘or’ Sound

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the ‘or’ sound and all the related letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise, voice and spell ‘or’ sounds in words.
• Works with the combination examples; ‘or’, ‘au’, ‘aw’, ‘al’, ‘all’, ‘ore’, ‘our’, ‘augh’, ‘aur’ & ‘oor’.

Advanced Sentence Construction Using Punctuation

Lesson Content:

Improving constuction of sentences using punctuation.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Teacher guided punctuating of sentences.
• Practices improving sentences with punctuation, using three longer examples.

Vowel ‘O’ Combinations – Part One

Lesson Content:

Introducing Part One of all the short and long vowel sounds for the ‘o’ and its related letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice words with ‘o’ vowel combinations.
• Revises words with ‘o’ vowel combinations; ‘o’, ‘oo’ and ‘oe’.

Vowel ‘O’ Combinations – Part Two

Lesson Content:

Introducing Part Two of the sounds for the vowel ‘o’ and its related letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice words with ‘o’ vowel combinations.
• Uses words with ‘o’ vowel combinations; ‘oa’, ‘oe’, ‘ow’, ‘ough’, ‘oe’, & ‘ou’.

Creative Writing

Lesson Content:

Improving expressive word skills to assist in creative writing.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Creates meaning and interest in sentences.
• Discovers alternative words to ‘good’, ‘said’ & ‘nice’.
• Practices creative writing by improving basic sentences.

Revision Of ‘O’ Vowel Combinations

Lesson Content:

Revising the ‘o’ vowel letter combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to recognise and voice words with short and long ‘o’ vowel sounds using examples; ‘orange‘, ’journey’, ’some’, ‘oil’, ‘obey’, ‘flood’, ‘book’, ’brown’, ‘hour’, ‘moon’, ‘once’, ‘rough’ ‘through’ & thorough

The Letter ‘O’ Combinations In A Short Story

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – Olivia and Lionel.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Practices using colour indicators to work out the sounds of the ‘o’ vowel combination words within the story.

Word Library For Creative Writing

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – Olivia and Lionel.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Practices using colour indicators to work out the sounds of the ‘o’ vowel combination words within the story.

Spelling The Long Vowel Sound ‘O’

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the long sound ‘o’ and all of the spelling combinations.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to spell the long vowel sound ‘o’.
• Practices reading and voicing words containing the examples; ‘hello’, ‘sew’, ‘toe’, ‘bone’, ‘boat’ ‘dough’, ‘brooch’, ‘plateau’, ‘yeoman’ & ‘snow’.

The Letters ‘ch’ Pronounced ‘cuh’ In A Short Story

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – A Christmas story for Chrissy.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Practices using colour indicators to work out the sounds of the ‘ch’ consonant combination words.

The Power Of Words

Lesson Content:

Studying basic sentences and learning to add the ‘Wow’ factor.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Recognises a basic sentence and compares it to a ‘Wow’ sentence.
• Understands the concept of a ‘Super Wow’ sentence.

The Vowel ‘U’ And Combinations

Lesson Content:

Introducing the letter ‘u’ and its related vowel letter combinations in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to read and voice the short and long vowel sounds of the letter ‘u’ and vowel letter combinations.
• Practices using examples; ‘u’, ‘ue’, ‘qu’ & ‘ui’.

Revision Of The Vowel ‘U’ Combinations

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the vowel ‘u’ and its related vowel letter combinations in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Revises the vowel ‘u’ sound and it’s related letter combinations.
• Practices using examples ’Susan’, ‘suite’, ‘under’ ‘quick’, ‘language’,  ‘curtain’, ‘busy’, ‘build’ ‘put’, ‘flu’ & ‘upset’.

Graphic Organisers

Lesson Content:

Assisting students with visual tools to organise their work projects to achieve better results.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Looking at how Graphic Organizers can help.
• Useful graphic organisers.
• Cluster diagrams.
• Charts.
• Venn diagrams
• Story maps
• Cause and effect diagrams.

Revision Of All ‘U’ Vowel Combinations

Lesson Content:

Revising the letter ‘u’ sounds and related letter combinatins in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Uses pictorial examples of the ‘u’ sound combinations.
• Practices reading, voicing and and Interactive lesson using writing for all symbols of the sound.

The Letter ‘U’ In A Short Story

Lesson Content:

Reading the story – The Curator.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Reads teacher guided short story using tracking technique.
• Practices using colour indicators to work out the sounds of the letter ‘u’ and related vowel letter combinations within the story.

Paragraphs

Lesson Content:

Learning to structure multiple sentences into a paragraph.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to write more than one sentence.
• Identifies what content is required for a good paragraph.
• Learns topic, detail and order.
• Discovers how to distinguish paragraphs.

Spelling The Long Vowel Sound ‘U’

Lesson Content:

Focusing on the long vowel sound ‘u’ and all the related letter combinations in words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns to spell the long vowel sound ‘u’.
• Practices reading, writing and voicing words using examples; ‘tutor’, ‘cue’, ‘cube’ ‘feud’, ‘beauty’, ‘youth’, ‘queue’, ‘few’, ‘view’ & ‘fuel’.

Using Spelling Skills For Reading

Lesson Content:

Revising all the spelling skills learned to be confident in reading unknown words.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns 6 strategies for attacking words.
• Recognises the alphabet letters.
• Voices the phonemes.
• Looks for syllables.
• Identifies long or short vowels.
• Queries whether letters are sounded.
• Builds confidence to attack the words.
• Draws on experience by using examples of real words and nonsense words

Correcting And Editing

Lesson Content:

Focusing on what editing is and how to go about editing writing.

Skills Gained By Student:

• Learns what editing is.
• Finds out what to look for in an edit check.
• Checks spelling.
• Checks punctuation.
• Revises grammar.
• Reviews vocabulary used.
• Sets work out in a logical order.
• Discovers useful tools to help with editing.