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Daily Lesson Plans
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Daily Lesson Plans
Over 300 daily lesson plans covering all your phonics needs for the first 3 years of school
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Smart Kids Letters and Sounds has been helping students learn to read for over 25 years. Our pedagogy draws on the latest research into how students learn best and how to ensure learning stays in students' long-term memory, enabling students to apply their knowledge to become highly competent readers and spellers.
Lessons engage students using visual cues, auditory drills, and kinaesthetic activities to reinforce the phoneme's sound and its representation.
Our Letters and Sounds annual subscription offers daily phonics lessons for the first three years of school, each accompanied by a fully decodable, matched book and worksheet that can be easily shared with parents for reading at home.
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Phase 2: cvc words
Start your phonics journey by learning the first 19 letter/sounds:
s /s/, a /a/, t /t/, p /p/, i /i/, n /n/, m /m/, d /d/, g /g/, o /o/, c /k/, k /k/, ck /k/, e /e/, u /u/, r /r/, h /h/, b /b/, f /f/, ff /f/, l /l/ ll /l/, ss /s/
Apply this knowledge to read and write cvc words with the introduction of:
- Letter Recognition
- Blending for reading
- Reading captions
- Reading tricky words (irregular spellings)
- Letter names and capitals
- Segmenting for spelling
- Consonant digraphs
- Two-syllable words
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Guidance: core lesson
Introduce: New learning. Objectives and criteria for success.
Revisit: Letter recognition and recall for previously learnt letter-sounds (GPCs).
Teach: Letter recognition and recall for new letter-sounds (GPCs) / tricky words.
Practise: Blending for reading and/or segmenting for spelling as appropriate.
Apply: Read or write a caption or sentence using previously learnt GPCs and tricky words.
Lesson 1: s /s/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /s/
Practise Children write the letter s on whiteboards or paper
Apply Voice Sounds: Show students how they can make sounds with their voices.
Lesson 2: a /a/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for/s/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /a/
Practise Children write the letter a on whiteboards or paper
Apply Listening for Mistakes: Display the card, read the sentence.
Lesson 3: t /t/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /a/
Practise Children write the letter a on whiteboards or paper
Apply Rhyme Matching: Play silly soup, rhyming bingo or odd-one-out
Lesson 4: p /p/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /p/
Practise Children write the letter p on whiteboards or paper
Apply Read the book ‘Pat’
Guidance: Captions
1. Write the caption ‘a pin in a tin’ on the whiteboard.
2. Ask the children to sound-talk the first word, raising a finger for each phoneme then say the word
(e.g. p-i-n - pin)
4. Repeat 3 for the remaining words.
5. Ask the children to say the whole caption.
Lesson 5: i /i/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/, /p/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /i/
Tricky word - i-s
Practise Blending for reading - it, sit, pit, pip, sip
Apply Read the caption ‘pin in a tin’
Lesson 6: n /n/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/, /p/, /i/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /n/
Practise Blending for reading - an, in, nip, pan, pin, tin, tan, tan, nap
Apply Read the caption ‘tap a tin’
Lesson 7: m /m/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/, /p/, /i/, /n/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /m/
Practise Blending for reading - man, mam, mat, am, map, Pam, Tim, Sam
Apply Read the caption ‘a man on a mat’’
Guidance
1. Point to the letter a and tell the children that it is an a (say its name) and stands for the sound /a/ (say its pure sound).
2. Point to another letter that they already know the sound of (e.g. t) telling the children its name. Ask them what sound it stands for.
3. Continue with all known letter sounds.
Lesson 8:
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/, /p/, /i/, /n/, /m/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /d/
Practise Blending for reading - dad, sad, dim, dip, din, did, Sid, and
Apply Read the caption ‘dad is sad’’
Lesson 9: g /g/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/, /p/, /i/, /n/, /m/, /d/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /g/
Practise Blending for reading - tag, gag, gig, gap, nag, sag, gas, pig, dig
Tricky word th-e
Apply Read the caption ‘pig in the pit’’
Introduce
It is helpful to explain to children that segmenting a spoken word into a written word is the opposite of blending a written word into a spoken word. The following lesson will require building over a few days. Children should be able to spell VC words before moving on to spell CVC words. This same method is used to teach CCVC etc. words in Phases 4 and 5.
Say a VC word (e.g. at) and then say it in sound-talk.
Say another VC word (e.g. it) and ask the children what it would be in sound-talk.
Lesson 10: o /o/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/, /p/, /i/, /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /o/
Practise Blending for reading - got, on, not, pot, top, dog, pop, Mog
Apply Read the caption ‘Mog got the mop’’
Lesson 11: c /k/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /s/, /a/, /t/, /p/, /i/, /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /o/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound c
Practise Blending for reading - can, cot, cop, cap, cat, cod
Tricky words n-o, g-o
Apply Read the caption ‘a cat in a cot’’
Lesson 12: k /k/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /a/, /t/, /p/, /i/, /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /o/, c
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /k/
Practise Blending for reading - kid, kit, Kim, Ken Tricky word - I
Apply Read the caption ‘I am a kid’’
Lesson 13: ck /k/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /t/, /p/, /i/, /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /o/, c, /k/
Introduce Digraph sound ck
Practise Blending for reading - k-i-ck, s-o-ck, s-a-ck, d-o-ck, p-i-ck, s-i-ck, p-a-ck
Tricky word t-o
Apply Read the caption ‘I go to the duck’
Lesson 14: e /e/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /p/, /i/, /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /o/, c, /k/, ck
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /e/
Practise Blending for reading - get, pet, ten, net, pen, peg, met, men, n-e-ck
Apply Read the caption ‘ten men get a pet’
Lesson 15: u /u/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /i/, /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /o/, c, /k/, ck, /e/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /u/
Practise Blending for reading - up, mum, run, mug, cup, sun, t-u-ck, mud
Apply Read the caption ‘a mug in the mud’
Lesson 16: r /r/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /n/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /o/, c, /k/, ck, /e/, /u/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /u/
Practise Blending for reading - rim, rip, ram, rat, rag, rug, rot
Tricky word i-n-t-o
Apply Read the caption ‘a rat on a rug’
Lesson 17: h /h/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /m/, /d/, /g/, /o/, c, /k/, ck, /e/, /u/, /r/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /h/
Practise Blending for reading - had, him, hot, hut, hop, hum, hit, hat tricky words - h-i-s, h-a-s
Apply Read the caption ‘his hat has a rim’
Lesson 18: b /b/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /d/, /g/, /o/, c, /k/, ck, /e/, /u/, /r/, /h/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /b/
Practise Blending for reading - but, big, back, bad, bag, bed, bug, bun, bus
Tricky word a-s
Apply Read the caption ‘bug in the bed’
Lesson 19: f /f/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /g/, /o/, c, /k/, ck, /e/, /u/, /r/, /h/, /b/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sound /f/
Practise Blending for reading - if, fit, fun, fog, fan, fat
Apply Read the caption ‘fun in the fog’
Lesson 20: ff /f/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for /g/, /o/, c, /k/, ck, /e/, /u/, /r/, /h/, /b/, /f/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the digraph ff
Practise Blending for reading -p-u-ff, h-u-ff, c-u-ff, o-ff
Apply Read the caption ‘huff and puff in the fog’
Lesson 21: l /l/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for c, /k/, ck, /e/, /u/, /r/, /h/, /b/, /f/, ff
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the letter-sounds /l/ tricky word - p-u-t
Practise Blending for reading - lap, let, leg, lot, lit,
Apply Read the caption ‘Len put the log on his lap’
Lesson 22: ll /l/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for c, /k/, ck, /e/, /u/, /r/, /h/, /b/, /f/, ff, /l/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the digraph ll
Practise Blending for reading - b-e-ll, f-i-ll, d-o-ll, t-e-ll, s-e-ll
Apply Read the caption ‘Len put the doll on his lap’
Lesson 23: ss /s/
Revisit Letter recognition and recall for ck, /e/, /u/, /r/, /h/, /b/, /f/, ff, /l/, ll, /s/
Teach Letter recognition and recall for the digraph /ss/
Practise Blending for reading - l-e-ss, h-i-ss, m-a-ss, m-e-ss, b-o-ss, f-u-ss, k-i-ss tricky word - o-f
Apply Read the caption ‘the hut is a mess’