Week 19, lesson 1 Phoneme "igh, i_e, ie, I, y" - Phonics Phase 5, unit 3 - Lesson plan

In the first lesson of Week 19, students delve into the various spellings of the long /igh/ phoneme, a key learning objective in Phase 5, Unit 3 of their phonics education. The lesson commences with a dynamic 'Quickdash' activity where children review grapheme flashcards, including digraphs and trigraphs. As the cards are displayed at a progressively faster pace, the students enthusiastically call out the corresponding phoneme for each grapheme shown.

The teaching segment introduces the Ice Cream pictophone, a visual cue to help students identify the /igh/ phoneme. The class is then presented with the different graphemes that can represent this sound: , , , , and . Through interactive writing exercises, the students practice words such as 'high', 'lie', 'like', 'shy', and 'find', with a focus on underlining the grapheme that denotes the /igh/ sound within each word. The instructor guides the children to observe patterns, noting that the grapheme often appears at the end of words containing the /igh/ sound. During 'Rhyme Time', a word is written on the board, and the class collaborates to identify rhyming words, highlighting the various graphemes that produce the rhyming sounds. Finally, the lesson culminates with 'Mini Whiteboard Work', where students transcribe dictated words and sentences onto their whiteboards, integrating the different spellings of the /igh/ phoneme they've learned.