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Curriculum Information

  1. FOUNDATION Descriptor

Success Criteria

Students learn to:

recognise and generate syllables, rhyming words, alliteration patterns and phonemes in spoken words (phonological awareness)

VC2EFLY03

Elaborations

This may involve students:

recognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes, for example ‘funny’ and ‘money’

identifying patterns of alliteration in spoken words, for example ‘helpful Hasma’

identifying syllables in spoken words (for example, clapping the rhythm of ‘Mon-day’, ‘Ja-cob’ or ‘Si-en-na’), which is also known as syllabification

  • I can clap out the syllables in words like my name or days of the week.
  • I can listen for and say words that rhyme, like "cat" and "hat."
  • I can hear when words start with the same sound, like "happy Harry."
  • I can say the sounds I hear at the beginning, middle, and end of words.
  • I can make a list of words that rhyme or start with the same sound.

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https://youtu.be/WKpBv0m7JN8

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The teacher says words with the sound in different positions and asks the students to identify where the sound can be heard.

Click here for a video version This may be used as a guided practice activity or for remote learning

Hearing the sound in words.

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STAGE ONE

m,s,f,a,p,t,c,i

INSTRUCTIONS

Complete the hook activity.

Read through the success criteria.

Turn the screen off and complete the activity. Words can be chosen at random.

5. Read the success criteria and ask the students to give you a thumbs up, thumbs in the middle or thumbs down to indicate if they felt they achieved the success criteria.

Say:

Thumbs up. You achieved all the success criteria.

Thumbs in the middle. You achieved some of the success criteria.

Thumbs down. You didn’t achieve any of the success criteria.

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Beginning

Start

Middle

End

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Stage 1 Hook

In this activity, you will listen and feel the sound in words.

I will say the sound and show you a picture of the grapheme that represents the sound. Then you will tell me if the sound is at the word's start, middle or end.

Let's try to practice with the word cat.

Everyone say the word cat.

The teacher should show a card with the letter c or write the letter c on the board and touch the sound.

What does your mouth do when you make the /c/ sound?

Yes, your tongue is humped in the back of your mouth.

Say, 'Say the word cat again'.

Say, 'Can you tell me where the /c/ sound was in the word?' 'Was the sound at the beginning, middle or end?' When did your tongue hump?

Say, 'Let's count the sound in the word. How many sounds did you hear?' The teacher should model this.

I can hear the /c/ sound at the start of the word cat.

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  • I can count the phonemes in two and three letter words.
  • I can identify the first and last sound in words with two and three letters.
  • I can identify sounds within words to segment (cup= c-u-p).
  • I can hear the following sounds in words:

m, s, f, a, p, t, c, i

Success Criteria

Element 0.1

Learning Intention

Blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable words and isolate, blend and segment phonemes in single syllable words (First consonant, last consonant sound, middle vowel sound) (VCELA169)

Stage 1

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Say; 'In this activity you are going to listen for the sound in words.'

Say; 'Watch my mouth as I say a word and listen for the sound…'

The teacher will place the letter card on the table and touch the card making the sound.

What does your mouth do when you make that sound?

Say; Can you tell me where the /.../sound was in the word?' 'Was the sound at the beginning, middle or end of the word?'

Say; ‘Let’s count the sound in the word. How many sounds did you hear?’

The teacher may finger tap or chop as a visual cue.

Corrective Feedback

If the students struggle with hearing the sound make the sound, cueing students into what your mouth does when making the sound

script

Stage01

/m/

map

Tim

hammer

Sam

milk

Mummy

am

mum

sum

/s/

sip

Miss

kissing

kiss

passing

floss

sent

less

missing

/f/

Fig

Self

Fish

Self

snowflake

Fan

Surfing

Leaf

/a/

ant

man

apple

Sam

camp

animal

dad

sad

/p/

Pad

tap

hippo

Pip

sip

apple

teapot

lip

pin

dropped

/t/

Tim

cat

beautiful

tack

time

sat

match

hat

Tam

sight

/c/

cap

sick

candy

focus

kite

sack

Chicken

kind

pack

packing

/i/

in

igloo

sit

insect

fit

flip

if

sniff

it

sin

is

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  • I can count the phonemes in two and three letter words.
  • I can identify the first and last sound in words with two and three letters.
  • I can identify sounds within words to segment (cup= c-u-p).
  • I can hear the following sounds in words:

m, s, f, a, p, t, c, i

Success Criteria

How did you go?

Learning Intention

Blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable words and isolate, blend and segment phonemes in single syllable words (First consonant, last consonant sound, middle vowel sound) (VCELA169)

Stage 1