English Resource Description
In the second week and second day of Phonics Phase 5, Unit 1, the lesson plan introduces the new grapheme to Year 1 students. The objective of the lesson is for the children to learn how this grapheme represents the /er/ phoneme. The teacher begins by engaging the class with pictophones, including an image of the Earth, to help them identify the /er/ sound. Once the Earth pictophone is selected and displayed on the board, it serves as a visual aid for the rest of the lesson.
The lesson continues with a quickwrite activity, where children are prompted to write various graphemes on their whiteboards in response to spoken phonemes, and then share their answers with the class. The teaching segment reminds students that some phonemes can be spelled differently and revisits the familiar grapheme, followed by the introduction of . The class then practices saying the /er/ phoneme with the new grapheme. During the practice phase, children engage in a 'Real or Not Real' game, decoding words on the board and determining their authenticity. The application of the lesson involves a 'Caption Match' activity, where students read a phrase and match it to the correct picture, and a mini whiteboard exercise where they write dictated words and sentences that include the new grapheme.
