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Much, Many & Lots of/ A lot of - Complete Lesson PowerPoint Presentation with Activities
This is a complete lesson (PowerPoint Presentation) teaching the difference between when to use the quantifiers ‘much’, ‘many’ and ‘lots of’/ ‘a lot of’. The PowerPoint also covers the difference between countable and uncountable nouns.
We use ‘much’ and ‘many’ to ask questions (e.g. How many apples is there? How much milk is there? and to make negative statements (e.g. There aren’t many apples. There isn’t much milk.) whereas we use ‘lots of’ or ‘a lot of’ to make positive statements (e.g. There are lots of apples. There is lots of milk.).
We use ‘much’ to ask questions and make negative statements about uncountable nouns. We use ‘many’ to ask questions and make negative statements about countable nouns.
We use ‘lots of’ or ‘a lot of’ to make positive statements about both countable and uncountable nouns.
Countable nouns are nouns that we make plural and that we can count where as uncountable nouns are nouns that we don’t make plural and which we measure instead of count.
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities and teaching points for teaching children how to use much, many and lots of/ a lot of. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - Sentence builder
√ Teaching input - the difference between countable and uncountable nouns, how to use ‘much’ and ‘many’ to ask questions about amounts and to make negative statements about amounts. How to use ‘lots of’ and ‘a lot of’ to make positive statements about amounts.
√ AFL - much or many fill in the blank task
√ Multiple guided/ whole class consolidation activities throughout
√ Multiple differentiated independent activities (3 levels) throughout
√ Extension task
√ Plenary activity - mistake spotter (AOL)
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Is, are and am - present tense forms of the verb 'to be' - Complete lesson & Activities
This is a full lesson teaching the difference between when to use ‘is’, when to use ‘are’ and when to use ‘am’.
‘Am’ is used only with I and when writing in the present tense.
‘Is’ is used with singular nouns and pronouns.
‘Are’ is used with plural nouns and pronouns.
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity introducing forms of the verb ‘to be’
√ Teaching input - difference between use of ‘is’ and ‘are’
√ Consolidation activity - fill in the blanks
√ Extension Input - exceptions (you and I)
√ Differentiated independent activity - mistake spotter
√ Extension Input - Introduce ‘was’ and ‘were’ (whole class activity)
√ Consolidation - fill in the table
√ Plenary - Sentence maker activity
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
'Ever' and 'Never' - Full Lesson with Activities
A full lesson presentation (PowerPoint) teaching what ‘ever’ and ‘never’ mean, how to use them when speaking and writing and the differences between them.
The presentation includes:
Learning objective
Three success criteria
Starter activity reviewing ‘yet’ plus answer slide
Present perfect tense review activity plus answer slide
Input slides teaching how to use ‘ever’ in statements plus example sentences, reasoning questions and explanations
Two consolidation activities (multiple choice question and reasoning question plus answer & explanation slides
Extension activity - Introducing ‘never’ plus consolidation activity & answer slide
Sentence builder consolidation activity for ‘never’ and ‘ever’
Input slide teaching how to use ‘ever’ in questions plus example sentences
Sentence builder consolidation activity for asking questions including ‘ever’
Plenary - fill in the blank - AOL for yet, ever and never
This lesson is designed specifically for Cambridge Stage 6, unit 1 teaching content but can be suitable for any English lesson about ‘ever’ and ‘never’.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Past Simple Tense - Complete Grammar Lesson with Activities (No Printing Required)
A full lesson presentation teaching what the past simple tense is, why we use it and how to write in the past simple tense.
The past simple tense is used to talk about things that have already happened. It is used especially for describing things that we know when happened. All sentences must have a verb. Verbs tell us the tense of a sentence. We distinguish between regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are verbs which follow a rule to change to past simple (we add the suffix -ed to these words). Irregular verbs do not follow a rule to change to their past tense form.
This lesson includes:
√ Complete PowerPoint presentation for the full lesson
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity
√ Teaching input & information slides
√ Consolidation activities
√ Differentiated independent activities
√ Differentiated questioning
√ Speaking, listening, reading and writing tasks
√ Extension & application tasks
√ Plenary activity
The lesson covers:
Identifying the verbs in sentences
Distinguishing between regular and irregular verbs
Changing regular verbs to their past simple tense form
Common irregular verbs in the past simple tense form
Forms of the verb ‘to be’ (brief introduction)
How to write in the past simple tense
When to use the past simple tense/ why we use it
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Cambridge Stage 6 - ESL - Unit 8 - Entertainment - Full Lesson + Activities
A full lesson complete with activities and teaching the key concepts from Cambridge stage 6 - ESL - Unit 8 - Entertainment.
Success Criteria:
•I can name and identify different activities done for entertainment.
•I can use past participle adjectives to describe feelings and qualities.
•I can describe the negatives of on-screen entertainment.
•I can describe the history of films.
•I can use the past simple passive to talk about events
•I can create a timeline.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activity designed to engage
√ Two vocabulary - definition match activities
√ Past participle adjectives grammar activity
√ Speaking games and discussion tasks about on and off-screen time
√ Information slides - how to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words
√ Reading task - Too Much Screen Time?
√ Fact discussion - addiction to screens
√ Time line task looking at history of film
√ Past simple passive - what is it + how and why do we use it?
√ Past simple passive grammar consolidation activities (differentiated)
√ Extension tasks and writing tasks
√ Independent research activity - the history of an invention
√ Vocab anagrams activity - alternative words for ‘said’
√ Plenary task
√ All answer slides
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
A and An - Grammar Lesson + Activities (Full PowerPoint - No Printing Required)
A full lesson teaching the difference between when to use ‘a’ and when to use ‘an’.
We use ‘an’ in front of words (nouns and adjectives) which begin with a vowel letter (a, e, i, o and u). We use ‘a’ in front of words which begin with a consonant letter.
The presentation consists of 27 slides and multiple activities helping children develop a solid and secure understanding of the differences between using ‘a’ and ‘an’. The lesson includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - AFL - fill in the blanks
√ Teaching input slides - Explaining when to use ‘a’ and when to use ‘an’
√ Recap/ Mini Plenary activity
√ Consolidation activities
√ Extension activity
√ Differentiated independent task
√ Writing task - application for learning
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary activity
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Phonics Phase 2 Complete Lesson + Activities - letter B b
This is the eighteenth lesson in this complete phonics course teaching children how to read and write! Focusing on the letter b, this lesson introduces the letter, the sound it makes and how to identify the initial, middle and end sound and letter of words. It is the eighteenth lesson of phase 2 phonics and includes all the information and activities you need to introduce this letter and the sound it makes.
In phase 2 of phonics, children meet the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they make. They learn how to identify the initial, middle and end sound in CVC (consonant - vowel- consonant) words in preparation for learning how to segment and blend. From lesson 3, they start to decode words into the sounds they know in order to start reading as well as encode sounds into letters in order to begin writing. As they progrss through phase 2 of phonics, they will start writing simple sentences composed of phonetically decodable and high-frequency words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 2 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 2.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
g
o
c
k
ck
e
u
r
h
b
f
ff
l
ll
ss
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Phase 2 phonics sound mat
√ Review of prior learning
√ Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
√ Activities for identifying initial sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying middle sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying final sounds and letters
√ Letter formation practice
√ Decoding activities (preparation for reading)
√ Encoding activities (preparation for writing)
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It combines very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Phonics Phase 2 Complete Lesson + Activities - letter M m
This is the seventh lesson in this complete phonics course teaching children how to read and write! Focusing on the letter m, this lesson introduces the letter, the sound it makes and how to identify the initial, middle and end sound and letter of words. It is the seventh lesson of phase 2 phonics and includes all the information and activities you need to introduce this letter and the sound it makes.
In phase 2 of phonics, children meet the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they make. They learn how to identify the initial, middle and end sound in CVC (consonant - vowel- consonant) words in preparation for learning how to segment and blend. From lesson 3, they start to decode words into the sounds they know in order to start reading as well as encode sounds into letters in order to begin writing. As they progrss through phase 2 of phonics, they will start writing simple sentences composed of phonetically decodable and high-frequency words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 2 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 2.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
g
o
c
k
ck
e
u
r
h
b
f
ff
l
ll
ss
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Phase 2 phonics sound mat
√ Review of prior learning
√ Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
√ Activities for identifying initial sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying middle sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying final sounds and letters
√ Letter formation practice
√ Decoding activities (preparation for reading)
√ Encoding activities (preparation for writing)
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It combines very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Phonics Phase 2 Complete Lesson + Activities - letter I i
This is the fifth lesson in this complete phonics course teaching children how to read and write! Focusing on the letter i, this lesson introduces the letter, the sound it makes and how to identify the initial, middle and end sound and letter of words. It is the fifth lesson of phase 2 phonics and includes all the information and activities you need to introduce this letter and the sound it makes.
In phase 2 of phonics, children meet the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they make. They learn how to identify the initial, middle and end sound in CVC (consonant - vowel- consonant) words in preparation for learning how to segment and blend. From lesson 3, they start to decode words into the sounds they know in order to start reading as well as encode sounds into letters in order to begin writing. As they progrss through phase 2 of phonics, they will start writing simple sentences composed of phonetically decodable and high-frequency words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 2 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 2.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
s
a
t
p
i
n
m
d
g
o
c
k
ck
e
u
r
h
b
f
ff
l
ll
ss
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Phase 2 phonics sound mat
√ Review of prior learning
√ Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
√ Activities for identifying initial sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying middle sounds and letters
√ Activities for identifying final sounds and letters
√ Letter formation practice
√ Decoding activities (preparation for reading)
√ Encoding activities (preparation for writing)
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It combines very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Lesson 1 - The First 5 of the 100 High Frequency Words/ Tricky Words/ Sight Words - Complete Lesson
Group A: the, and, a, to, said
This is a complete lesson with all the activities required to teach the first five of the 100 high frequency words (AKA tricky words or sight words) taught in EYFS. This lesson focuses on the first five words: the, and, a, to, said
It also includes a complete high frequency word mat with all 100 words!
The lesson includes:
√ Learning Objective
√ Success Criteria
√ Complete 100 high frequency word list
√ Word recognition activities
√ Reading activities
√ Writing activities
√ Sentence construction and application activities
√ All answer slides
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It combines very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Draw Inferences from the Text - Complete Reading Lesson with Activities
This is a full lesson teaching how to draw inferences about what characters are thinking and feeling as well as what their motives and intentions are. It also covers making inferences from description, dialogue and action. This lesson is complete with all the activities you need to teach and consolidate this skill.
An inference is an idea that is based on clues and implied details. Authors do not always explicitly state their meaning. Instead they may provide enough details to enable the reader to make an inference. We can make inferences about almost any detail in a story. We may infer what characters are thinking and feeling as well as what their intentions and motives are. We may also may infer the setting from the description, character traits from dialogue or what is happening from descriptions of action. Predictions are also a type of inference made about the future.
This lesson covers all these aspects of making inferences as well as how to support our inferences with evidence from the text. It is suitable for KS2 children and includes differentiated activities including reading and writing tasks designed to enable students to apply their understanding to their own work.
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes all the information and activities you need to teach children how to make inferences.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTIONS - The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity
√ AFL Questions
√ Teaching input - what are inferences and how can we draw them?
√ Multiple reading exercises
√ Multiple inference-making tasks for inferring feelings, thoughts, motives, intentions, the setting, character traits and events
√ Teaching input - predictions
√ Multiple prediction-making tasks
√ Guided/ whole class consolidation activities
√ Differentiated independent application activities (3 levels)
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary - AOL
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Bundle
Complete Phase 2 Phonics Course (Lessons & Activities) - All the resources you could ever need to start teaching children how to read and write!
Never plan another phonics lesson! Here are all the resources you need to teach children how to read and write, created by an EYFS specialist and UK trained qualified teacher.
Whether you’re an experienced teacher whose realised that your free time is too valuable to spend hours planning everything from scratch, or you’re a parent with no idea on how to even start teaching your child how to read and write, this bundle contains everything you need.
Phase 2 of Phonics is when the letters and sounds they represent are introduced, and children learn how to form the letters. It is also where the skills of blending and segmenting are taught. We blend sounds in order to read words and we segment words into their sounds in order to write them down. All of this is covered in these resources and you will find you have everything you need to execute effective, engaging and inspiring lessons.
For those of you who have never taught phonics before, many slides contains directions, hints and tips in the notes section. These explain what each slide is for and often include additional ideas for their execution.
As a teacher, tutor, early-years specialist and head of English at an international school, I have personally used these lessons teach classes of children how to read and write, tweaking and perfecting them annually. They contain:
Reviews of prior learning
Learning objectives and success criteria
Phase 2 phonics sound mats
Video and game links
Activities introducing the letters and the sounds they make
Letter identification activities and texts (poems)
Activities for identifying the initial, middle and final sound in CVC (consonant- vowel- consonant) words
Letter formation activities and video links
Activities for blending sounds to read CVC words
Activities for segmenting words into their sounds to write CVC words down
These resources teach children the sounds and letters based on the order of their frequency of use in English:
Lesson 1 - S
Lesson 2 - A
Lesson 3 - T
Lesson 4 - P
Lesson 5 - I
Lesson 6 - N
Lesson 7 - M
Lesson 8 - D
Lesson 9 - G
Lesson 10 - O
Lesson 11 - C
Lesson 12 - K
Lesson 13 - E
Lesson 14 - U
Lesson 15 - R
Lesson 16 - H
Lesson 17 - B
Lesson 18 - F
Lesson 19 - L
Segmenting and blending activities begin from lesson 3 onwards. Lessons should be taught in the above order as they follow on from each other, building on prior learning and they also include a recap of previous learning at the start of each lesson.
These lessons will get children reading and writing words. You can then follow these lessons with the Phase 3 lessons (also available in bundles) which will get children reading and writing sentences.
Please check the notes sections on each slide for extra details, directions, hints, tips and ideas.
Environmentally friendly!
No printing is required for any activity in any lesson. Children can work on white-boards or in notebooks. The lessons can also be easily used to teach children online, especially with interactive apps such as Pear Deck, Seesaw, Nearpod etc.
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Phonics Phase 3 Digraphs and Trigraphs Lessons & Activities - Complete Bundle Worth £60.00
All the resources you could ever need to teach the full set of the phonics phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs; this bundle includes all the videos, games, activities and resources needed to teach children how to read and write the phase 3 phonics digraphs and trigraphs. It consists of twenty one-hour long lessons and each PowerPoint includes:
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Phonics phase 3 sound mat
√ Review of previously learned sounds
√ Videos introducing the sound
√ Games practising identifying, segmenting and blending each sound
√ Reading activities
√ Writing activities
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons where the most commonly used letters and sounds are learned and children practise segmenting and blending mostly CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
You can download the ‘ai’ digraph for free from the Firefly Learner TES shop’s featured resources. This bundle includes the following sounds from phonics phase 3:
air
ar
ch
ear
ee
er
igh
ng
oa
oi
oo (long)
oo (short)
or
ow
qu
sh
th
ur
ure
zz
Feelings and Emotions - Full Lesson PowerPoint & Activities (Cambridge Stage 6, Unit 1 - Lesson 1)
A full lesson teaching the names of different feelings and emotions, including: happy, nervous, angry, scared, excited, interested, worried, confused & proud.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - AFL
√ Teaching input slides learning to name and identify different feelings: happy, nervous, angry, scared, excited, interested, worried, confused, proud, miserable
√ Speaking and listening activity
√ Consolidation activities:
- Reading activity & discussion points
- Writing activity - apply the learning
√ Plenary activity
This lesson is designed specifically for Cambridge Stage 6, unit 1 teaching content but can be suitable for any English lesson about feelings and emotions.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Subject and Object Pronouns - Full Grammar Lesson & Activities
This is a full lesson teaching the difference between subject and object pronouns.
Subject pronouns often come before the verb in a sentence and tell us who or what did the verb (he, she, it, you, I, they, we etc.)
Object pronouns often come after the verb in a sentence and tell us who or what the verb was done to. (him, her, it, you, me, them, us etc.)
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
The presentation includes:
Learning objective
Three success criteria
Starter activity
Teaching input
Whole class consolidation activities
Extension and reasoning tasks
All answer slides
Hint and support slides
Plenary activity
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
Spelling Lesson - Year 2 - the /el/ sound spelt '-le'
This is a full lesson teaching the spelling of words ending in ‘-le.’ It includes all the information and activities to teach the spelling of these words and achieve this year 2 objective.
The spelling lesson includes the following:
√ A spelling assessment
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Spelling rule teaching slides
√ Comprehension activities
√ Spelling definition/ meaning activities
√ Spelling rule consolidation activities
√ Spelling strategies mat
√ Reading application activities
√ Writing application activities
√ All answer slides
This includes everything you need to teach children the spelling of words which end in -le, ensure that they understand the meaning of these words, help them apply their spelling knowledge to reading and writing tasks and also teach them several strategies for learning future spellings.
Yet - How to use 'yet' - Full Lesson PowerPoint + Activities
A full lesson teaching how to use ‘yet’ to talk and ask about time in the past.
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Quizlet game starter activity learning new unit vocabulary
√ Present perfect tense review activity plus answer slide
√ Input slides teaching how to use ‘yet’ in statements plus example sentences, reasoning questions and explanations
√ 1 multiple-choice review questions
√ 1 reasoning consolidation activity plus answer slide
√ Sentence builder consolidation activity for ‘yet’ as a statement plus answer slides
√ Input slide teaching how to use ‘yet’ in questions plus example sentences
√ Sentence builder consolidation activity for asking questions including ‘yet’
√ Plenary - fill in the blank - AOL for yet, & AFL for ‘ever’
This lesson is designed specifically for Cambridge Stage 6, unit 1 teaching content but can be suitable for any English lesson about using ‘yet’ to refer to time in the past.
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.
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Spelling Lessons Bundle - Homophones and Near Homophones, Homophones Group A,
Homophones Group A, Part 1: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry
Homophones Group A, Part 2: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury
It is advisable to teach homophones separate from each other to avoid confusion (e.g. teach ‘main’ on a different day to ‘mane’). This bundle contains two full lesson teaching the spellings of the homophones in group A; each lesson focuses on one half of all the pairs of homophones in group A.
Lesson 1 covers: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry.
Lesson 2 covers: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury
The lessons include an explanation of what ‘homophones’ are, explain the meanings of all the words and include a multitude of activities for learning both the spelling and meaning of these words (anagrams, word searches, crosswords, fill in the blanks, spelling pyramids, acrostic poems and many more). They also include spelling strategies mats for extra ideas and methods for learning spellings.
A homophone is a word with the same pronunciation as another word but which has a different meaning and usually, a different spelling. It is advisable to teach homophones independently from each other so as to avoid confusion between the word spellings and meanings.
The spelling lessons include the following:
√ Spelling assessment
√ Learning objectives
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activities
√ Review of prior learning
√ Teaching inputs and information slides
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word spellings
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word meanings
√ All answer slides
√ Spelling strategies mats
√ Extension task - writing application activities
√ Plenary activities
This includes everything you need to teach children the spelling of these homophones in a fun, engaging and impactful way.
Spelling Lesson - Homophones and Near Homophones Group A, Part 1 of 2!
Homophones Group A, Part 1: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry
Homophones Group A, Part 2: plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury
This is a full lesson teaching the spelling of the following homophones: plane, meet, mail, heal, grown, fair, accept, affect, ball and berry. The lesson includes an explanation of what ‘homophones’ are, explains the meanings of all these words and includes a multitude of activities for learning both the spelling and meaning of these words (anagrams, word search, crossword, fill in the blanks, spelling pyramids and many more). It also includes a spelling strategies mat of extra ideas and methods for learning spellings.
A homophone is a word with the same pronunciation as another word but which has a different meaning and usually, a different spelling. It is advisable to teach homophones independently from each other so as to avoid confusion between the word spellings and meanings.
The spelling lesson includes the following:
√ A spelling assessment
√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter Activity
√ Teaching input - explaining homophones, word meanings etc.
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word spellings
√ Multiple consolidation activities for learning the word meanings
√ All answer slides
√ Spelling strategies mat
√ Extension task - writing application activity
√ Plenary introducing the alternative homophones
This includes everything you need to teach children the spelling of these homophones. There is a separate lesson teaching the alternative homophones for each of these words (plain, meat, male, heel, groan, fare, except, effect, bawl and bury) and which should be taught at a different time to avoid confusion.
Phonics Phase 3 Complete Lesson + Activities - ai digraph - FREE
This is a complete lesson teaching children how to identify, read and write the ‘ai’ digraph of phase 3 phonics. This lesson introduces the ‘ai’ digraph and the sound that it makes (a long vowel /ay/sound as in train). It is designed to be the FIRST lesson in a series of phase 3 lessons that build on prior learning from phase 2.
In phase 3 of phonics, children learn that multiple letters (digraphs and trigraphs) can make one sound. They also meet some of the less common letters and the sounds they make. They continue to practise segmenting and blending CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words, CCVC and CVCC words as well as some longer, phonetically-decodable words.
These lessons follow on from the phase 2 phonics lessons where the most commonly used letters and sounds are learned and children practise segmenting and blending mostly CVC (consonant - vowel - consonant) words.
These lessons are designed to teach children how to read and write by practising the skills of identifying, segmenting and blending. Each lesson includes all the information, games, videos and activities needed teach each phase 3 sound.
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES SECTION ON EACH SLIDE FOR EXTRA TIPS AND IDEAS FOR TEACHING PHONICS PHASE 3.
It is recommended that you teach these lessons in the following order as the lessons build on prior learning:
ai
air
ar
ch
ear
ee
er
igh
j
ng
oa
oi
oo (long)
oo (short)
or
ow
qu
sh
th
ur
ure
v
w
x
y
zz
The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Phase 3 phonics sound mat
√ Review slides for phase 2 phonics
√ Games, videos and activities introducing the sound
√ Segmenting and blending reading activities
√ Segmenting and blending writing activities
PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.
This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with very few adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.