Teaching sequence 5
- 1. TEACHING SEQUENCE: W SOUND Introduction The teaching sequence starts by showing a poster to the children to focus attention to “w” letter sound. This way, the children brainstorm the words with “w” letter sound they can see in the picture. Then the children see more examples of words which contain the “w” letter sound. Song Secondly, the children implement a “listenand do” activity as they have to listena nursery rhyme and sing it while making a specific action for “w” letter sound.
- 2. Action The specific action for “w” sound consist on blowing onto open hand like the wind, repeating wh, wh, wh… Phonemicawarenessand activities In this part the children learn to identify the sounds of words which contain “w” letter sounds. Moreover, the children develop their capacity to segment and blend words. Then, the childrenpractice with two activities that are designed to work with “w” lettersound.However,itis worth to mention the differences between them. In the first activity, the children should identify the pair of cards whose meaning is the same taking into account that all of themcontain the “w” sound. In contrast, in the second activity, the children should classifythe wordswhichcontain “w” sound” and the words which have not “w” sound. These activitiescanbe stirreras they are designed to be implemented with the interactive whiteboard. However,it ispossible toimplement them as they if they were settlers.
- 3. Writing In this part, the children should become familiarwithletter“w”.This way, this high tech teaching sequence provides with a write template whichallowsthemtolearn how to draw the letter“w” incapital letter and in lower case. Then they are going to blend and segmentsome words in order to get familiar to this sounds in some words at the same time they learn English reading and speaking strategies. Finally, this sequence offers a slide to write the missing letters which correspond to the sounds studied before.