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Fluency at word level. They have to be able to read words
quickly before they can read a sentence and make sense of it.
Book Teaching the Brain by Duncan Milne
Book How my Brain Learns to Read Duncan Milne
Offer phonics to all children, it is especially effective for boys,
second language, Maori Pacifica and lower socio economic.
Stage 1:
Where you develop phonological awareness.
Shut your eyes and let the children listen. Open your eyes and
tell me what you heard.
Some children havent ever talked to an adult about the sounds
they can hear around them.
If they cant hear anything, dont tell them give them an option.
Was that a truck you hear or a motorbike? Have this as an
independent task where they SoundTrack game (sound bingo)
put a counter on what they hear.
You can also play a musical instrument. Give them a picture of
each instrument and they have to hold up the one they hear.
Keep the visuals very plain and not interesting, this is about
hearing not be visual learners.
When using instruments do obviously different instruments
then when they can do this easily make the instruments more
similar.
Have a sounds table where they can go with their friends
independently.
I Say You Say!
Get your tongue out and use it! Mouths open and tongues
moving. Can Mr. Tongue go up the stairs, wash the top
windows, the bottom windows, visit the cheek twins!
Animals sounds. On Your Marks is a trigger for them to know
that we are going to do something fast! Show animals.
Get the children to line up in groups of 4. One person steps out
and has to name the other three children as fast as they can
from left to right.
Do the same at lunch time with 4 pieces of food. Close the
childs eye and then rearrange, say again as fast as you can.
Alliteration:
I say You Say! Put the book on the sound table.
Do alliteration every day. Lovely Listening Laura. Emphasise
Book Animalia by Graeme Base.
Read aloud 5 times a day!
1. Develop phonological awareness
2. Vocab
3. Brings the class together
4. Improves behaviour
Ba Ba black sheep Say and clap with the teacher
Say and clap by yourself
Just clap it
Do this for a week.
Writing:
Kids should be able to read their own writing.
Tell the students to use their sounds and just write the first
sound for each word.
Stage 2:
Be able to hear, write and read the first 29
phoneme/grapheme correspondences.
Dont show the letter card first cos if they dont know it
you have lost them.
Lesson structure:
1. Hear the sound: * Show a picture: The teacher names the
picture. * emphasis the 1st sound * Repeat the first sound.
* Feel the sound (on your throat or lips)
5. Tell them the letter name. Make sure you do this at the
end of the lesson to avoid confusion.
Only lower case letters. They can only use a capitals if they
have a reason for it.
Have a packet of cards in your back pocket. With the children
you know will have difficulty rememebering the new sound
pull it out of your pocket at random times throughout the
day.
Have Gina come and observe a phonics lesson.
Games - Phonics
To get/Make:
- Jolly phonics letter cards with pictures on the back
- Laminate all letter cards
- Print and laminate vowels cards
- White boards edtech Educational Technology Ltd.
- Alphabet freize with only lower case letters.
- Yolanda Soryll books colour coded.
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Stage 3:
Teaching the last sound. This only takes 1 week. Children
dont write at this stage for long.
If they cant spell a word when they are at this stage in their
story writing they have to write 2 sounds. Up to now they
only had to write one!
Use a puppet. We have to teach the puppet how to
talk! He doesnt know how to say fish. Teach him how
to say fish. Then the puppet says fik. What is the last
sound he cant say? sh. Can we teach him how to say sh.
Lets say it again fi sh! And emphasie sh. The puppet
says it correctly. Give him a clap is hes right!
Can use the puppet at any stage.
Stage 4:
Here we are teaching blending and
segmentation.
Explain to the children they dont have to sound out big
words. They can sound out the beginning and then use the
picture maybe?
Its not all about phonics, remember the 4 search lights.
Ask the kids do they know the difference between sounding
out a word and spelling a word?
Diagraph. R-o-ck-e-t Lots of NZ students will spell it Rocit say
that this is a tricky one we spell it et.
Tell the children that teacher is spelt teach er even though
they say teach a . When it ends with a it is er!
Lesson:
Hear:
- key word (ribs)
rhyme free and string middle sound
- identify
- blend
- segment - robot
Dont show the word card at this stage.
Read: Word cards: - Robot (and pointer)(transfer)
o Robot no pointer
o Dump robot mix sets
fast
Write: - white boards,
- Experiment 1. Letter 2. Outcome (talk out
loud and tell me how you got it) 3. Transfer
from now on you writing you have to give
me three sounds.
- Silly sentence read it again and again for
fluency
Revise(fast)
- Take a word to fluency(write the word over
and over as fast as you can)
- Letter cards
- Word cards(mix)
Websites:
- Literacy first
- Steps
- Smart kids
- Yolanda soryl
Fluency:
- Get the children to read out loud to you
- Get the children read faster
- Only teach fluency with familiar words.
- Teach fluency using words.
- Teach fluency every day in phonics by telling
them to do it fast.
Shared Writing:
The teacher says pick up your white boards.
We need something for the robot. How do
you spell robot. They all try it. The teacher
uses it.
We will learn how to spell like. We spell l-i-k-e
use letter names count with fingers and
sweep. Shout, whisper, sing while writing on
your palm. Spell it in your head. Now write it
on your whiteboard.
Write as many words as you can in 60
seconds!
Once a week. Write as many words as you can
in 3 minutes. Next week try to beat your own
score.
Stage 5:
Hopfully no need to point at each phoneme. Same as stage
4 with just 1 extra in each section:
Hear - key word RIBS + Phonme fingers.
Read -
- robot(no pointer)
- dump robot mix sets.
- Grapheme
Write phonme lines
Revise all previous grapheme.
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WordLab spelling
program
Advanced phonics is a course for fine
tuning stage 5 and 6 coming next year.