takes the pressure off by supplying the teacher with all the tools to save considerable time when planning lessons and marking students' work. Instruction manuals, reference folders and answer books are provided for quick and easy marking along with weekly schedules plus scope and sequence to efficiently plan the teacher’s week.
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Early Stage 1
Activities focus on:-
Sound awareness
Talking, Writing
Craft, Language
Listening
Reading
A weekly schedule is provided for easy recording and programming of activities for the week's work. Each aspect is related to the others in as many ways as is possible. eg. Week 5:-
Sound Awareness
The sound is [p] which is a sound produced by "popping" air from the lips. The children play games such as cotton-wool ball races where they blow the "balls" on the desk, feeling the air coming from their lips.
The children listen for the sound [p] when identifying the initial sound in a word.
Talking
The children learn to say a short rhyme in which most words begin with the sound [p]. Patty wanted popcorn, She put it in the pan, Listen to the popcorn, Go pop-pop-pop!
Writing
The children feel their lips together (forming a straight line) when beginning to say the sound. So, the children learn to write the line first when writing the letter [p] (going top-to-bottom).
Craft
The craft activity is cooking popcorn, where the children jump around the room while it is cooking pretending to be popcorn and making the "popping" noise, [p]-[p]-[p].
Language
The children develop an understanding of the concept "beside" in a 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional environment in a hands-on learning environment. (ie. 3D = objects beside objects, 2D = line beside pictures on page, with emphasis on top-to-bottom) The children complete a sequencing exercise where pictures beside each other tell a story.
Listening
Listening to a rhyme for words containing the sound [p] and responding by making the "popcorn' noise. Following verbal instructions to draw a line beside named pictures (going top-to-bottom).
Reading
Reading activity involving identification of odd picture in a row (facing different way). Reading sheet for reading practice ... the (picture) and the (picture), where the pictures begin with the sound [p], the words 'and' and 'the' being sight words.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE (provides on one page all planning and requirements needed for week's work)
INTRODUCTION (explanation and discussion each day)
a) Sound Description b) Rule c) Sight Words
ENCODING, DECODING and SOUND PROCESSING (all children in class involved in developing phonemic awareness)
ACTIVITY SHEET (to be done with the teacher)
GAME (using the week's sounds and rules for whole class or small groups)
TEACHER'S GROUP (a practice spelling test with different words and sentences, but same sounds and rules ... time to help those experiencing difficulties, extend the more able students)
AUDITORY ACTIVITY
Listening activity involving following instructions
Decoding / encoding / processing of sounds in words
Understanding of grammatical terminology
SKILL ACTIVITY
1. Sound Awareness (13 weeks) 2. Rhyming Skills (4 weeks) 3. Syllables (4 weeks) 4. Sentence Structure (including word order and punctuation) (13 weeks) 5. Grammar (4 weeks)
SPELLING TEST (with picture graph to record results each week)
READING SHEETS (carefully written story and 12 sentences containing sounds, rules, sight words learnt that week or previously; comprehension questions with story, both factual and inferential)
WEEKLY SCHEDULE (provides on one page all planning and requirements needed for week's work)
INTRODUCTION (explanation and discussion each day)
a) Sound Description b) Rule c) Sight Words
ENCODING, DECODING and SOUND PROCESSING (all children in class involved in developing phonemic awareness)
ACTIVITY SHEET (to be done with the teacher)
WORKSHEET (to be done without the teacher)
GAME (using the week's sounds and rules for whole class or small groups)
TEACHER'S GROUP (a practice spelling test with different words and sentences, but same sounds and rules ... time to help those experiencing difficulties, extend the more able students)
AUDITORY ACTIVITY
Listening activity involving following instructions
Decoding/encoding/processing of sounds in words
Understanding of grammatical terminology
SKILL ACTIVITY
1. Sound Awareness (4 weeks) 2. Rhyming Skills (2 weeks) 3. Syllables (2 weeks) 4. Sentence Structure (including word order and punctuation) (22 weeks) 5. Grammar (17 weeks)
SPELLING TEST (with picture graph to record results each week)
READING SHEETS (carefully written story and 12 sentences containing sounds, rules, sight words learnt that week or previously; comprehension questions with story , both factual and inferential)
UNIT SCHEDULE (provides on one page all planning and requirements needed for 2 weeks of work)
INTRODUCTION (explanation and discussion each day)
a) Sound Description b) Rule
ACTIVITY SHEET (to be done with the teacher; includes listening activities as well as work on genre and writing skills)
WORKSHEET (to be done without the teacher; revision of Activity Sheet)
SPELLING SHEET (to be done without the teacher; regular revision of earlier rules and sounds)
GAME (using the unit's sounds and rules for whole class or small groups)
TEACHER'S GROUP (a practice spelling test with different words and sentences, but same sounds and rules ... time to help those experiencing difficulties, extend the more able students)
SPELLING / PUNCTUATION TEST (with picture graph to record results each unit)
READING SHEETS (carefully written story and 12 sentences containing sounds, rules, sight words learnt that unit or previously; comprehension questions with story, both factual and inferential)
UNIT SCHEDULE (provides on one page all planning and requirements needed for 2 weeks of work)
INTRODUCTION (explanation and discussion each day)
a) Sound Description b) Rule c) Grammar
SPELLING SHEET (includes listening activities; regular revision of earlier rules and sounds)
GRAMMAR SHEET (develops understanding and use of grammatical sentence structures)
WRITING SHEET (develops use of correct spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and text structure in own writing)
GAME (using the week's sounds and rules for whole class or small groups)
DAILY SPELLING/PUNCTUATION PRACTICE (a practice spelling test with different words and sentences, but same sounds and rules ... time to help those experiencing difficulties, extend the more able students)
SPELLING / PUNCTUATION TEST (with picture graph to record results each unit)
