English Resource Description
During Week 13, Day 3 of Phonics Phase 5, Unit 2, children delve into the versatile digraph and its associated phonemes /ow/ and /oa/. The objective of the lesson is to familiarize the students with the different sounds that the digraph can represent. The class begins with a quickwrite activity where children are prompted to write down the grapheme corresponding to a given phoneme on their whiteboards, and then display their answers for the group.
The teaching segment involves writing the digraph prominently on the board and encouraging the children to identify the various phonemes it can indicate. To make the lesson more engaging, the teacher introduces characters such as the Ogre and Owl, using them as visual aids to represent the phonemes. Words like "low" and "cow" are used to exemplify each sound. The practice part of the lesson includes a word sort exercise where students decode words and categorize them under the correct phoneme heading. The list includes words such as "own," "show," and "crowd." To apply their new skills, children participate in a scavenger hunt with image flashcards related to the phonemes and complete a checklist as they locate each item. Additionally, mini whiteboard work reinforces their learning through dictation exercises, where they write down sentences and words that include the digraph, such as "Blow the dust off the towel" and "The snow is like powder."
