BSLA - PD day Waikouaiti School

 BSLA PD - Waikouaiti School

NE/Year 1 class - Louise

Start of the day - Whole class

Start the day with the read-aloud - The Paper Bag Princess

A special word on the page, 'expensive.' 

Tell them one thing that you remember from the story. Keeping the book open for the children to look at. 

Move from the read-aloud to the new sound, ensuring the student has the correct mouth formation. Then, move on to the words, focusing on where the sound is. 

From the new sound move into word chains, they were writing on a whiteboard, but I think that having them in a book would be more helpful for the children, maybe like a book that they can use as a dictionary so that they can revisit them when they are writing and reading.

They read the 'th' book from word chains in a clear file so that the children could underline the 'th' sound. 

- I could copy the book onto A3, then laminate and bind so they can be reused. 

All up, the whole class lesson was 50 minutes long. 

Small group lesson

Start with the small tiles, 

Give the children their own letter folder, with all the letters inside but the ones they need on the form.

Go through the words and get the children to make them.

This is also a crucial part of orthographic mapping; as the teacher, you make it with the wooden tiles, so help the children see what they are doing. Hence, the scaffolding of this task.

When reading the book, you tell them the words that you need to 'just remember'.