Week 33, lesson 3 -ed Ending - Phonics Phase 5, unit 4 - Lesson plan

In today's phonics lesson, the children will delve into the world of verbs and explore the -ed ending, also known as a suffix. The objective is to understand how adding -ed to a verb can change its tense to past. The lesson starts with a 'Sound Match' activity where the children are encouraged to match graphemes written on the board with the phonemes they represent. Through group participation, they will identify different sounds and words that correspond to these sounds, such as /k/ for "cat", /s/ for "ice", /ee/ for "key", /ai/ for "hey", /e/ for "head", and /ee/ for "tea".

During the teaching phase, the word "walk" is presented on the board for decoding, with special attention given to the tricky grapheme. The children are then involved in a discussion to make the sentence "Jane walk" grammatically correct by adding an 's' to form "Jane walks" and then changing it to the past tense "Jane walked" with the -ed suffix highlighted. The practice stage sees the words "walked", "twisted", and "curled" used to demonstrate the three different sounds that the -ed ending can represent: /t/, /ed/, and /d/, all while being spelled the same way. For application, children are given words to write on their mini whiteboards, such as "parked", "screamed", and "sorted", to practice the -ed ending with its various pronunciations. The lesson concludes with the teacher reminding the class that while -ing and -er always add an extra syllable to a word, -ed only sometimes does, highlighting the subtle complexities of English spelling and pronunciation.