Spring 1 Week 2 Phase 3 Week 9
Objectives and criteria for success:
Learn about the spelling of words containing the ai, ee, oa, ow, oi digraphs that end with the letter l.
Learn and practise letters/sounds ear, er, air (p81).
Practise blending for reading (p85–88).
Practise reading high frequency words learned so far.
Revisit and Review
Teach
Practise
Mon
HF word bingo
Teach ear using phonics scheme (or p81).
Segmenting for
Remind children that a trigraph is three
spelling: Phoneme
letters that make one sound. Demonstrate
frame (p88): ear,
this in a phoneme frame.
dear, fear, hear.
Blending for
reading: Sound
buttons (p58):
near, tear, year,
beard.
Tues Ask children to write as
Teach er using phonics scheme (or p81).
Play Buried
many consonants as they
Teach children to read her (p91).
treasure (p87) with
can think of in a given
Segmenting for spelling:
the words: fern,
time. Check their answers
Phoneme frame (p88): berk, fern, herd,
herd, her, perd,
with a partner using the
her.
merg.
alphabet frieze.
Wed Phase 3 – Buried Treasure Recap the term apostrophe – show
Complete
examples on the board.
examples on the
board.
Discuss meaning in terms of possessive
apostrophe.
Spelling test – ears, dear, fear, hear, fern, herd, her, berk
Play dinosaur egg
Thu
and write down each
word before
someone clicks on
the correct spelling http://www.ictgames.
com/dinosaursEggs/i
ndex.html
Apply
Writing Sentences (p98): I
can hear an owl hoot at
night.
Play Yes/no questions (p97
and see resources for
Phase 3 week 9):
Is it hot this year?
Can she see a herd of
cows?
Write sentences placing
possessive apostrophes in
the correct place.
Write sentences using
these words.
Assessment
Give the sound when shown any
Phase 2 letter, and the Phase 3
GPCs learned so far.
Find any letter (upper or lower
case), from a display, when given
the sound or letter name.
Write each letter correctly when
following a model.
Be able to blend and segment in
order to read and spell (using
magnetic letters) VC words earn,
CVC words fern, win, tail, vet, and
silly words zear, jaiv.
Be able to spell the tricky words
the, to, I, no, go.
Be able to read the high frequency
words learned so far.