Use Letter – Sound Correspondence Build and Read Unfamiliar Words (Primary 1)

ENGLISH STUDIES

PHONICS

FIRST TERM  

WEEK 10

PRIMARY 1

THEME – READING 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Use Sounds of Letters to Form Three Letter Words (Primary 1)

TOPIC – USE LETTER – SOUND CORRESPONDENCE BUILD AND READ UNFAMILIAR 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and should be able to –

1. break words into sounds.

2. break words into smaller words.

3. break words into parts and identify the word parts.

4. use letter-sound correspondence to build and read unfamiliar words and

5. recognise and use vowel diagraphs and r-controlled letter sounds to read unfamiliar words.

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

1. Pocket Charts

2. Listening Games

3. Tape Recorders

4. Audio Tapes

5. Flash Cards

6. Word Walls.

METHOD OF TEACHING – Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. Scheme of Work

2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

CONTENT OF THE LESSON  

FOCUS ACTIVITIES 

DECODING STRATEGIES 

1. sounding out words in text.

• Window

• Spider

• Robot

• Whistle, etc.

 

2. break words into smaller words –

• Window, win – dow

• Spider, spi – der

• Robot, ro – bot, etc.

 

3. words parts (compound words, diagraphs – it means two consonants forming single sound) –

• th as in thumb, thank, both, etc.

• wh as in where, when, whistle, etc.

• ch as in chair, catch, etc.

• ck as in clock, neck, pick, etc.

• sh as in shark, fish, ship, sunshine, etc.

• ph as in phone, photo, alpha, alphabet, graph, etc.

 

4. apply long and short vowels.

 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Guides pupils to read words placed in a row (e.g. doll – dot – dill and match text to the words).

Pupil’s Activities – Match pictures to words read aloud.

3. Teaches correct pronunciation of words syllable by syllable while clapping and counting syllables in words.

Pupil’s Activities – Listen and clap to syllables in words.

4. Guides pupils to separate words into consonant and vowel sounds/ parts.

Pupil’s Activities –

Use pronunciation and listening games to:

• recognise words from sounds.

• identify word parts.

• break words into small parts.

• build and read unfamiliar words.

5. Build words by blending word parts (long vowels/short vowels/ diagraphs, etc.) to form new words.

Pupil’s Activities – identify, read and build compound words.

 

CONCLUSION

• To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

• Next Lesson –

LESSON EVALUATION 

Pupils to:

1. sound out words they listen to.

2. identify smaller words in compound words.

3. identify the word parts in speech, words read aloud, etc. and

4. build and read compound words and contractions.