Lesson O
Sound:
o [as in octopus]
Core Activity:
Game: Ollie the Octopus Goes to School
Materials:
Phonics Bag
Letter Flashcard for o
Picture Flashcards: Ollie the Octopus,
Picture Flashcards for Game: black bag, orange bag, blue book,
orange book, black pen, orange pen, red pencil, orange pencil,
blue rubber, orange rubber, purple ruler, orange ruler
Additional Picture Flashcards: ox, orange
Letter Flashcards for s, k, p, v, o for ‘Slap the Board’
Phonic Word Builder
Module 3 Assessment Sheet
Primary Phonics One CD
Letter/Sound Awareness:
Action:
The students make an octopus shape
with their hands. They wiggle their
fingers to create the eight legs.
This lesson teaches the short o sound.
Like all vowels it can also make many
other sounds. Avoid words such as one,
out, our, etc. as they have a different
sound.
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Procedure
Notes
Pre-task.
 Gradually reveal the letter o flashcard from the
Phonics Bag and encourage the students to guess
which letter it is. Put the letter o flashcard on the
board.
 Introduce the o sound.
 Introduce your friend Ollie the Octopus. Write his
name on the board.
 Show the students how to make an Ollie the
Octopus with their hands. Ask the students to
move their fingers. Ask the students to make the o
sound while they are wiggling their fingers.
Task
 Tell the students that it is 8:00 a.m. on Monday
morning. Ask the students where Ollie is going.
 Elicit answers and explain that he is going to school.
 Ask the students to help Ollie put things into his
school bag.
 Elicit the school objects. Accept all reasonable
answers.
 If the students say an object corresponding to one
of the picture flashcards, put it on the board.
 Point to the flashcard and ask ‘What is it?’ The
students respond and the teacher puts the other
coloured flashcard on the board.
 Repeat until all of the flashcards are on the board.
 Ask the students how many pencils they can see on
the board.
 Tell the students that Ollie can only take one pencil.
 Ask the students to do the octopus action and make
the o sound.
 Ask a student to come up to the board and choose a
pencil for Ollie.
 If it is the orange pencil, put it in the bag. Tell the
students Ollie likes orange pencils. If the pencil is
not orange tell the students that Ollie only likes
orange pencils.
 Repeat with other objects and different students.
When a student chooses the right object, the rest
of the class says, ‘Yes, Ollie likes orange ___.’ If
the wrong coloured object is chosen, the students
can say, ‘No, Ollie doesn’t like ( colour ) ( object ).’
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You can draw the letter on the board
slowly and encourage the students to
guess which letter it is.
To make an octopus with your hands,
make your palms face each other and
interlock your thumbs. Wiggle your
fingers to create the eight legs.
.
There are two sets of flashcards: one
set is orange coloured; the other set
has the same objects but in different
colours.
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Post-task
 Practise the sound and action ‘o, o, o’.
 Hold up the octopus flashcard and ask the students
what it is. Elicit the answer and the first letter.
 Write the word on the board next to the flashcard.
 Practise the sound ‘o,o,o, octopus’.
 Ask the students to fill in their Phonic Word Builder
with words starting with the o sound.
 Limit the students to fill in up to 3 words only
because P.1 students have limited o sound
vocabulary.
 Play ‘Slap the Board’ to revise the letters and
sounds learned so far (s,k,p,v,o).
o Put the students into teams.
o Put the letter flashcards on the board, reviewing
the sounds as you put them on the board.
o Bring one student from each team to the front
and say a letter sound.
o The first student to slap the letter gets a point
for their team.
 Demonstrate the Module 3 Assessment by asking a
student to circle the correct letter when you say
the sound.
 Hand out Module 3 Assessment Sheets and read out
the sounds.
 Answer Key for assessment:
1. p
2. k
3. s
4. v
5. o
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You can use words from this lesson and
the previous lessons and get the
students to slap the initial sound. The
winning student can say the next word
by giving them a picture flashcard.
You can also use the Primary Phonics
One CD.
You can change the answers if you wish.
You can repeat the assessment saying
the words and the students underline
the initial sound.
E.g. 1. Peter 2. Ken 3. Sarah 4. Vivian
5. Oliver
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Name_____________( ) Class____ Date_____
Module
Listen and circle the sound you hear.
1)
s
v
d
p
2)
g
k
o
d
3)
g
p
s
n
4)
k
v
g
o
5)
o
p
k
v
Mark
5
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