Literacy Groups
6th August 2018
Orange Group Blue/ Purple Group Green Group
Revisit: Write known letter sounds (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, Revisit: Practise known letter sounds: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, Revisit: Practise known letter sounds: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g,
c, k, e, u, r, h, b, f) with chalk and ask children to jump on o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f. Write on whiteboard and ask o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, l. Have small sound cards in a pile
different sounds to revise them. Children write letter children to identify the sound and a word starting with this and ask children to take turns drawing a card out of the
sounds they need to practice (from previous lesson) with sound. deck and saying the sound + a word that has the sound.
chalk. Focus on p, d, g, c, k.
Teach: new phoneme l. Say the sound and show the action Teach: new phoneme j. Model writing j with correct
Teach: new diagraph ck. Say the sound and show the action (tall man down and a flick). All children say the sound and formation on whiteboard. Start a challenge where we go
(c=starts with a click, k= tall man down, half way back up, do the action then try writing the phoneme in the air. Think around in a circle saying j words, trying to get as many as we
big fat belly and a kick). Remind children that c and k also of some l word: lunch, lemon, Lachie, lion. Practice writing l can. Write their words down so that we don’t double up
make the same sound but there is a new diagraph ck. on whiteboards. and can see how many words we found.
Explain that this diagraph isn’t used at the beginning of Show that there are two ways of writing this sound. We can Display a selection of words, some with j and some other
words. All children say the sound and do the action then try write it as l but sometimes at the end of a word it is spelt ll known letter sounds. Ask children to take turns to select the
writing the diagraph in the air. Think of some ck words – (remind children that the sound is still the same). Model j words.
kick, sock, sick, ticket, pocket. Practice writing ck on using sound talk to read l-i-ck and b-e-ll. Show children Ask children to write a big j in their books and trace over it
whiteboards. Then write a line in books. pictures of l words and ask them to write the words in their with pencils. Ask children to write these j words in books:
books: leg, lap, bell, doll jam, jet, jog, job, Jack.
Practice: Play Buried Treasure. Bury these words in a sand
tray: sock pick pack sick tick dack gick gack. Ask children to Practice: Play Sound Buttons. Display these words: hum Practice: Play KABOOM!
sort the cards into real words and fake words. When they bug back fan huff leg fill full (one at a time) and draw a Prepare popsticks with words containing known letter
get a real word, they can write it in their writing books. sound button under each letter. Model sound-talking with a sounds. Include some sight words (the, to, I, no, go, into).
puppet. Ask children to sound-talk it using the puppet. Write KABOOM on some popsticks. Children take it in turns
Apply: Hold up captions on card or whiteboard. One child to draw a poppstick out and read the word. They keep the
reads – encourage them to blend if they get stuck then all Apply: Hold up sentence on card or whiteboard. Read popstick unless they get a KABOOM and they then need to
children read together. A dog is sick. Pick a cat. Dad can together, model blending tricky words. Where there is a put all their popsticks back in the jar.
pack a cap. Socks on a mat. A kid in a cap. Pots and pans. double letter draw a line underneath both letters to show
that it is one sound only. Get to the top of the hill. Put a doll Apply: Practice reading and writing sight words: he, she,
in a cot. Sit on top of the rocks. Each child writes a sentence me, be, we, the, to, I, go, no, into.
in their book to transition.
