Sunday, January 9, 2011

KSSR ENG YEAR 1 TEACHING PHONICS 3

UNIT 4 LISTEN TO ME
New Phonemes: /m, n
/
Graphemes: m n

Words: man, map, nap, an, ant, pan, Nat, am, Pam, , tan, ap, apt
(Bold- words taught in the textbook. The rest are other words including 'nonsense words'.)

Lesson 1
Phonemes: /m, n/
Graphemes: m, n

Content
Standard: 2.1
Learning
Standard: 2.1.1, 2.1.2(b), 3.1.2(a), (b)
Teaching Aids: Sound card 'm'(3), 'n'(3); pocket chart; Picture cards of words beginning with 'm' and 'n' - man, map, mop, net,nest, nap.

Time: 30 minutes

Activity:

1. Revise phonemes
/s æ t p/. Flash sound cards and sing Association Action Song.

2. Teacher introduces /m/. Follow Basic Teaching Steps to introduce a sound(Refer Teaching Phonics 1)

3. Sing Association Action Song(from Cory cat Phonics Song), Mickey Mouse m m m(Rub your tummy ).

4.
Repeat Steps 1-3 for phoneme /n/; Action Song - Nelly Nightingale n n n(driving a sports car).

5. Play 'Throw Me In'. Introduce picture names for words beginning with /m/ and /n/ as pupils play the game.

6. Do writing activities(model the correct way of writing the grapheme):
  • touch sandpaper letter
  • form 'm' with modelling clay
  • copy, write 'm' (AB pg 16; intergrate ICT, use Microsoftword. Let pupils choose font, colour it and print.)
(Ask 'What are you doing?' as pupils do the writing activity. Train them to say the sound not the letter name. Use the term 'sound' when teaching phonics NOT 'letter'.)

REFLECTION:

LESSON 2
Phonemes: /m, n/
Graphemes: m, n

Content
Standard: 2.1
Learning
Standard: 2.1.1, 2.1.2(b)
Teaching Aids: Sound card 'm'(3), 'n'(3);
Picture cards of words beginning with 'm' and 'n' - man, map, mop, net,nest, nap.
Time: 30 minutes

Activity:
1. Teacher revise
s the phonemes /m n/.

2.
Play 'Put It Right', Textbook pg 15.

3. Do writing activity AB pg 17.


REFLECTIO
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LESSON 3
Phonemes: /m/, /n/
Graphemes: m, n

Content
Standard: 2.1
Learning
Standard: 1.1.1(g), 2.1.1, 2.1.2(b),2.1.3, 2.1.4
Teaching Aids: Sound cards 'm', 'n', 'p', 't' and 'a'; pocket chart;
Time: 30 minutes


Activity:
1. Teacher revise
s the phonemes /s æ t p m n/.

2. Do Oral Blending for words in the word list 'Sound It Right', Textbook pg
16.

3.
Play 'Sound It Right', Textbook pg 16. Divide pupils into 2 groups. Teacher says /m-æ-n/(sound-by-sound) and pupils compete to put the corresponding sound cards together. Then they read and segment the word, for eg 'man', /m-æ-n/.
Don't forget to ask the whole class to read and segment the word too.

4. Do writing activity AB pg 18. Encourage the pupils to say the sounds as they write each word. For instance for the word 'sat', encourage them to say /s-
æ -t/ as they write.

REFLECTIO
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LESSON 4
Phonemes: /m/, /n/
Graphemes: m, n

Content
Standard: 2.1
Learning

Standard: 2.1.1, 2.1.2(b),2.1.3
Teaching Aids: Sound cards 'm', 'n', 'p', 't' and 'a'; pocket chart; Reading Text, textbook pg 16; Sight word cards - 'on', 'the' (written in blue)
Time: 30 minutes


Activity:
1. Revise blending words quickly.

2. Read the text on page 16 together. Teach pupils to read the blue words(sight words) using look & say method(use flash cards).

3. Next let the pupils take turns to read in groups. Then pair them up and let them read the text to each other.

4. Do dictation ( For abled students - sentence level. Show sight word cards if they have problem writing the sight words; for the less abled - word level )

5. Do manipulaton. The suggested manipulation sequence for sounds represented by
/s æ t p m n/ is:

a - an - am - pam - map - man - pan - tan - tap - nap - map - ap - apt - ant

This manipultaion exercise is very powerful because you are training your pupils to read any possible sound combinations.

REFLECTION:

Saturday, January 1, 2011

ORAL BLENDING

Oral blending is a basic phonemic awareness task. Phonemic awareness is the understanding about spoken language. It is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds(phonemes). If children cannot distinguish individual sounds within words, they will have difficulty to read and write.

Oral blending exercises help children hear how sounds are put together to make words so that they can begin sounding out words independently as they read.
You can begin oral blending with children as early as three years of age.

GUESS THE WORD:
1. Simply tell your child "I'm going to say some sounds and I want you to guess the word. /s- a-t/"
Train your child to say "sat".
2. You can also say "I'm thinking of an animal. It's a /c-a-t/.

3. You can play 'I Spy.' Say 'I spy something square, /b-oo-k/.'
Note: Say the sounds not letter names.