Unstressed Er Lesson Plan

Phonics lesson plans – unstressed er

DAY MODEL / INTRODUCTION INDEPENDENT WORK PLENARY Go through flashcards for today’s high frequency words Lower ability – circle the correct word Revise the Revise the graphemes (letter strings) that we have (from a choice of 3 words) under a phrase for covered previously – show children clue cards with picture today: ‘E R each grapheme on the front and a clue word on the can back. Have them say the clue word, then the sound Middle ability – join the correct letters represent that the grapheme represents e.g. bat, (b) together to make the word to go with a (ə)’ Read children a story which contains today’s grapheme picture e.g. – the story of The Super Runner (without letting them Ask children see the story) to think, pair, Read children the story again, this time telling them to Higher ability – unscramble the letters to share as listen for which phoneme (sound) they hear most often make the correct word to go with a many of the in the story picture e.g. words from Ask children to think, pair, share some of the words today’s that contain today’s phoneme that they heard in the lesson as story Extension – complete a Wordsearch with they can Ask children where the sound comes in the words i.e. words with today’s grapheme at the beginning of the word, in the middle of the word Complete the or at the end of the word, or in more than one position additional Show children the story on the IWB IWB activities Read the story again, asking the children to spot which e.g. match letters are used to represent the sound in the story the word and Ask children to tell their partner which letters are used image and / to represent the sound or guess the Have children repeat this phrase – ‘E R can represent missing word (ə)’ Repeat this phrase several times in different ‘voices’ e.g. loudly, quietly, quickly, slowly etc