We have continued working through the fluency sheets of reading 3 letter words, (consonant-vowel-consonant) at speed. The children have made progress with this particularly those who have been regularly practising at home. They have made good improvements in being able to hear the sounds in large words, and are becoming more consistent in knowing which vowels they hear and the endings.
I have been regularly starting each session with a dictated sentence which includes the word they were trying to learn the day before as well as a range of 3 letters words.
As it is not certain I will be able to continue this programme longer than this term I decided that it was important to try and get it running in the classroom with the classroom teachers. I modelled a session with the teachers and am in the process of setting them up the resources they will need and a plan to hopefully start next week.
Resources
ipads/tablets with the wordchain app.
fluency sheets
multiple colours of whiteboard markers
letter tiles (1 set for each child in the group)
Lesson Sequence
Dictated sentence - this could be done independently listening to a prerecorded sentence on the ipad. Best to mark it together as a group with the teacher though.
Fluency sheet - practice by highlighting all the words with the same rhyme (practising the fluency sheet independently is also a good idea)
Timing Fluency: How many can be read correctly in 1 minute. (Really needs to be done with the teacher or support worker as mistakes need to be corrected before continuing))
Decoding a big word or Wordbuilding. Can be done as a group. Each child needs a set of letter tiles.
Learning this word: Split into parts/say the sounds randomly (turning a tile over til all are upside down/Writing word. (This word learning can be done as a group)
