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

In the fourth lesson of Week 33, the focus is on the phonics phase 5, specifically on the -ing suffix that is commonly added to verbs. The objective of the lesson is to help children understand and use the -ing ending in their writing and reading. The lesson begins with a revisiting activity where children are encouraged to match graphemes to their phonemes using a pictophone, stimulating their memory of various grapheme representations such as , , , , for 'ape', and others for 'jellyfish' and 'sheep'.

The teaching segment involves writing the word "walk" on the board and decoding it with the children's help. By adding "Jane is" in front of "walk", the children are prompted to make sense of the phrase and correct it by adding the -ing suffix, thus understanding its use with other verbs. The practice activity, Countdown, is an engaging game where children decode and blend words from a list on the board, earning points and reinforcing their understanding of the -ing ending. Finally, the application of the lesson is through mini whiteboard work, where children learn that in split digraph words, the final is dropped before adding -ing. They practice this concept by writing dictated words such as "hide" becoming "hiding", "hope" to "hoping", and "tune" to "tuning", and then sharing their work with the class.