Week 11, lesson 1 Review Week: Single Phonemes - Phonics Phase 3 - Lesson plan

In Week 11, Day 1 of the phonics lesson plan, students revisit single phonemes from Phase 3, focusing on the consonant graphemes (j, v, w, x, y, z, qu). The objective of the lesson is to review these graphemes, ensuring that the children are confident in recognising and using them. The lesson begins with a 'Quickdash' activity where children rapidly identify the sounds associated with each grapheme and pictophone presented on flashcards. This activity is designed to be fast-paced and increases in speed to challenge the students' recall abilities.

The 'Teach' part of the lesson involves the 'Sound-A-Word' exercise, where the teacher writes words containing the target phonemes on the board. This helps the class to practise their decoding and blending skills collectively. Following this, the 'Practise' segment encourages children to engage in 'Quickwrite', where they listen to a phoneme and then write the corresponding grapheme on their whiteboards before showing their answers. In the 'Apply' stage, the 'Spot the Fake' game is introduced, where students sound out real and made-up words written on coins, sorting them into a treasure chest for real words or a bin for fake ones. For those who are ready for more, extension activities like 'Sound Splat', 'Sound Sorter', and 'Phoneme Frame' are available to further enhance their phonemic awareness and grapheme recognition.