English Resource Description
In the fourth lesson of Week 7, the focus is on revisiting the grapheme and its associated phonemes. The objective of the day is to review the different sounds that the grapheme can represent. The lesson begins with a 'Quickdash Words' activity where the teacher selects words from previous lessons that contain graphemes and phonemes students need more practice with. These words are written on the board with sound buttons and bars to aid in decoding, and the class collaborates to sound out each word phoneme by phoneme.
During the 'Teach' phase, the teacher writes the grapheme on the board and surrounds it with pictophones, such as Yak, Eagle, Igloo, Ice Cream, Ox, and Ape. The class then draws lines to connect the grapheme with the phonemes it represents in various words, excluding the connections to Ox and Ape. The 'Practise' activity, 'Spot the Fake,' involves children identifying real and nonsense words written on coins by sound-talking the words and sorting them into a treasure chest if they are real, or into a bin if they are fake. The lesson concludes with the 'Apply' stage, where children use the provided 'Sound Gangplank' resource to decode words and match them with the correct picture on dominoes, working in pairs or small groups to reinforce their understanding of the grapheme's phonemes.
