English Resource Description
In the fourth lesson of Week 2, part of the Phonics Phase 5 curriculum, young learners are introduced to a new grapheme, . The objective of the lesson is to familiarise the children with this challenging digraph, with the help of two characters: Oon on the Moon and the Unicorn with a Pink Horn. These engaging characters assist in illustrating the different sounds that the grapheme can represent. The lesson begins with a quick review of tricky words using flashcards, where children shout out the words as they are displayed.
During the teaching phase, the instructor reminds the class that some phonemes can be spelled differently and revisits the long /oo/ phoneme, using the grapheme as an example. The children then practice saying the phoneme as they explore the new grapheme, learning that it can also represent a /yoo/ sound in certain words like "blue" and "argue". A Word Sort activity follows, where words are sorted into two columns, one associated with the Oon (for the /oo/ sound) and the other with the Unicorn (for the /yoo/ sound), reinforcing the phoneme-grapheme correspondence. To apply their learning, children engage in a Yes/No game using flashcards, decoding phrases and choosing the correct response, and then move on to Mini Whiteboard Work, where they write dictated words and sentences to demonstrate their understanding of the new grapheme.
