WEEK 9 – GRADE 1 – STORY TIME (35 minutes) PERIOD 17

Objectives:
To consolidate the sound of the letters Aa, Bb, Cc and Dd and the corresponding words
Learn and practice reading skills

Topic &
Key language
Resources
& Materials
Key Activities

Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing

Vocabulary Revision
Ant, apple, alligator, acrobat

Ball, bed, bee, bear

Cat, carrot, clock, car

Dog, drum, dragon, doll


Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 1, pupil’s book – p.18 & 19

Materials

Phonics cards
CD




Warm-up: Name it (5mins)
Arrange some chairs, back to back, in the middle of the room
Choose phonics cards and place them on the chairs
Play a song (use a song from the previous units)
When the music stops the students pick up a phonics card and, one at time, tell Teacher the name of the item pictured on their phonics card
The student who gives an incorrect answer is out of the activity
Play the activity as many times as necessary

Revision & Practice
Listen. Read along (Track 26) (10mins)
(book closed) Tell the students that it’s story time.
Ask them if they like reading stories and what their favourite story (or character) is
Prepare phonics cards of these words: ant, bed, dog, cat, clock, dragon, drum
Ask the students to read out the words
Invite students to guess what they think the story is about (do not dismiss any ideas)
Ask the students to open their books
Ask them questions about what they can see in the pictures
e.g. Teacher: (pointing to the dog in picture 1) Look! What’s this?
Class: (It’s a) dog!
Teacher: (pointing to the bed in picture 1) Yes! The dog is on the ….
Class: bed! etc
Play the CD and ask the students to listen and follow the story in their books, pointing to the pictures of the key words
Play the CD again pausing for the students to repeat
Ask individual students to read the story aloud




Extension (optional)
Ask the students to read the story again
Then ask them to look at the pictures for a few minutes and close their books
Say a few sentences (some correct and some incorrect) and ask the students to say yes or no
e.g. Teacher: The dog is on the bed.
Student 1: Yes!
Teacher: The dragon is on the clock.
Student 2: No! etc

Which animals are in the story? Colour (10mins)
Point to the animals and ask students to name them
Ask the students to say which animals appear in the story
Ask them to colour those animals

Activity 1: Act Out (10mins)
Read the sentences in the story, pause at the key words
Invite the students to mime them (the dog, the bed, the ant, the cat, the clock, the dragon, the drum.
Have the students come to the front of the classroom and act out the story
Encourage them to have fun as they perform



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