English Resource Description
In the third lesson of Week 22, the focus is on the phoneme /ow/ and its two common spellings: and . The objective of the lesson is to help students learn the different ways to spell the /ow/ sound. The lesson starts with a revisiting activity called HFW Race, where children review ten high-frequency words using flashcards. They read each word aloud, and on the second round, they participate in a team game to see which team can identify the word the quickest.
The teaching segment introduces the Owl pictophone, which serves as a visual cue for the /ow/ phoneme. The class discusses the phoneme and learns that it can be spelled in two ways: and . The teacher demonstrates how to write words using each grapheme, emphasising that rarely appears at the end of a word, while can be placed anywhere in the word, providing examples such as "cow" and "shout". In the practice part of the lesson, a game called Missing Letter challenges the children to identify the correct letter to complete words with a missing grapheme. For the application of the lesson, students use mini whiteboards to write dictated words and sentences that contain the /ow/ phoneme, ensuring they understand the usage of both and in different words and contexts.
