Week 4, lesson 1 Tricky Words Review - Phonics Phase 4 - Lesson plan

In the fourth week's first phonics lesson, the focus is on revisiting and reinforcing tricky words, as well as CVCC/CCVC words, which are consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant and consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant words respectively. The objective is clear: to review these words to enhance reading fluency and decoding skills. The lesson kicks off with a 'Quickdash' activity, where children rapidly identify phonemes from displayed graphemes and pictophones, with the pace gradually increasing to challenge their recall and recognition.

Following the warm-up, the 'Word Match Lines' game is introduced to teach tricky words. Children are divided into two lines, each child holding a flashcard with a tricky word. They decode and blend the words aloud, searching for the child in the opposite line with the matching word. A selection of words such as 'said', 'some', and 'were' are used for this exercise. In the 'Practise' phase, the teacher writes a sentence on the board, models reading it, and then substitutes words to test comprehension. Children indicate whether the new sentence makes sense and volunteers or the whole class decode it together. The 'Apply' stage involves children using mini whiteboards to write down tricky words dictated by the teacher, and if time allows, they also write phrases incorporating these words, further applying their knowledge in a practical context.