Phonics planning

On my 'phonics blog' I am writing a whole series of planning sessions aimed at children with SEN or children who are falling behind. Each day I am adding a lesson. You can access all the lessons so far by looking on this link.

Phoneme frames with sound reminders

Print, laminate and use dry wipe pens for children to practise writing words. Use the one with lines for children to write a sentence.

Letters and Sounds Apply

I thought I would write about this part of a Letters and Sounds lesson as I have recently made a bit of a breakthrough with my SEN children. They all struggle to read, retain then write a caption or sentence. One of the things I think is very useful for young children is for them to spot their own mistakes and then correct them. With this in mind I split my children into pairs. I gave them a book each for writing in and a pencil between 2 of them. I then wrote lots of sentences using the targetted sound for the lesson on some bright card. I gave one child in the pair a sentence which they had to read to the other child. No peeping allowed. The child had to read and read until they were perfect. So after the first attempt where they were sounding out every word they became fluent. This fluency was needed so the other child knew what to write. When the child had eventually written the sentence I got them as a pair to look at my sentence and decided between them what was wrong. They then corrected. They then swapped and the other child read whilst their partner wrote. I have found this very effective. Within a week of doing this their fluency has improved and their ability to retain a sentence then write has improved. I have written some simple sentences for you to try this. Please let me know if it works with your children. My focus was on ch/sh/ng

CVC cards

3 box phoneme frame with grapheme reminders

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Save the princess - sounding out game

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Save the princess - word game

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Letters and sounds - sound it out board game

ch board game, letters and sounds phase 3

satpin, blend it and read it

Phase 3 board game ( the first few sounds)

Throw a die and put a counter on the sound. Read it! If correct you stay there and if not you have to go back to the beginning.

satpin game phase 2 letters and sounds

Very simple game, the child rolls a die and moves a counter. He has to say the sound he lands on. If he is right the counter can stay there if wrong he has to go back to the beginning.

Letters and Sounds Phase 4 - connect 4 game

Letters and Sounds phase 2, caption match

Laminate and cut out the cards. Child to match the picture to the text.

Phonics full circle game phase 3 letters and sounds

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Letters and sounds all phases - one minute game

This is such a simple idea but it works really well. Especially those children that love to compete.
Write a grapheme/tricky word/vowel digraph/spelling etc in the first box. How many times can the child write it in one minute? The letters have to be as neat as possible and all correctly formed.

Practising letter formation/spellings can be boring but doing it this way the child will get lots of practise of writing in a fun way. They also get lots of practise of forming the tricky sounds in phonics like /igh/ /ear/ /air/

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Letters and sounds phase 3 - 3 in a row games

oa game

igh game

ee game

ar game

ai game

Rubbish and Treasure games - Letters and Sounds beginning of phase 3

  

Letters and Sounds - Read and draw

Some simple and silly captions for children to read and then draw. Could be used as 'apply' in Letters and sounds sessions.

Letters and Sounds captions for reading and writing (more)