Planning Across a Block

Learning Objective Process Success Criteria Assessment Focus Skills I can make plurals of words ending in a 1)Look at last two letters of word 2) Remove y AF8 – Use the correct spelling. Communication consonant then y 3) Add ‘ies’ Key Vocabulary Introduction – 5 mins Tell children I have a word in my head and they need to guess it. Show the number of dashes for letters on board and give the chn one letter. Chn need to guess the letters (like hangman). Word is ‘parties’. Explain that we will be looking at how to make Baby/babies plurals of words ending in a consonant and y (L..I). Ensure S.C is not revealed at this point. Lady/ladies Puppy/puppies Odd one out - 5-10 mins Pony/ponies On IWB show chn three ways of spelling a plural of a consonant + y word (one correct, two incorrect). A/B talk: which is the Party/parties correct spelling? Chn write down on mini wb’s. Repeat for two other examples. Hobby/hobbies Penny/pennies What’s the rule? - 10 mins Fly/flies Show chn the word list (singular words on left, plurals on right). A/B talk: chn generate the rule for changing words on left to words on right. Show chn success criteria which explains the rule. Chn then brainstorm other words on wb’s which the rule could be applied to. A/B talk: does the rule have any exceptions? Elicit that it doesn’t work for words ending in a vowel + y (e.g. Resources monkey).

Quiz, quiz, swap, – 10 mins Provide each child with a word card (plural and singular words from word list). Chn walk around the classroom and ask another child to spell their word. Their partner does the same. If both partners spell the other word correctly, they swap cards and move onto to find a new partner. If one/both partners makes a mistake they cannot swap cards, but still go on to find a new partner. IWB The aim is to swap as many times as possible. Mini whiteboards Word cards Word list Wordsearch - 10 mins Blank word search grid Show chn word list of singular words. Re-cap how to change these into plurals. Model how to put the plural words into a grid and put other letters around them. Chn work in pairs to make their own word searches containing the plural words, and can extend to include some of their own examples.

Plenary Ask some chn to share their word searches. (If time, chn can swap with another pair’s work and attempt it). Discuss ways of remembering the strategy.