English Resource Description
In the third lesson of week nine, part of the Phonics Phase 5 curriculum, the focus is on the trigraph and the phonemes it commonly represents: /ear/, /air/, and /er/. The objective of the lesson is to help children understand and identify the different sounds associated with the trigraph. The lesson begins with a revisiting activity, where children are asked to quickly write down graphemes corresponding to phonemes said aloud, using their whiteboards to display their answers.
The teaching segment involves writing the trigraph prominently on the board and encouraging the children to suggest phonemes that could be represented by this trigraph. Visual aids such as pictures of an Ear, Aircraft, and Earth are displayed to help illustrate the sounds with example words like ear, bear, and earn. During the practice phase, the class engages in a Word Sort exercise, where words are decoded and sorted into columns under the correct pictophones. Words such as fear, bear, earn, and heard are used for this activity. Finally, in the application stage, children work in pairs with a Grapheme Spotter task, reading a paragraph and underlining instances of the day's trigraph, while vocalising the phoneme it represents. Additionally, they use mini whiteboards to write dictated words and sentences that include the trigraph, further reinforcing their understanding of the trigraph's phonemes.
