☰ Year plan · English (Connect)

Zeina’s story and Term 2 review

Week 30 · Fiction reader: Tamer's Travels on the Tablet (the book's own story: do not retell it; write our own short story about a child using a tablet to learn) and Term 2 review · 3 lessons
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Term 2 review: sounds and words

Connect P3 Term 2: Review
GoalReview the sounds from Units 7 to 12 and check what you can do now.
New words
blend · two or three letters said fast togetherdouble letters · the same letter two timessyllable · a beat in a wordNow I can · a list of what I can do
Explanation

Let us review the sounds of Term 2. ff, ll and ss: giraffe, bell, glass. spr and str: spring, street. pr and br: present, bread. A syllable is a beat: computer has three. er: teacher, water. gg, nn and tt: egg, dinner, butter. Clap the syllables, say the sounds and find them in a story. Then look at the Now I can list. Say Yes if you can do it. Say Not yet if you need more practice.

SoundWords
ff, ll, ssgiraffe, bell, glass
spr, strspring, street
pr, brpresent, bread
erteacher, farmer, water
gg, nn, ttegg, dinner, butter
Worked examples
ssttprstr
Look. Sort the pictures by their sound.

In spring a prince walks along a street with a present for a farmer. The farmer is in a sunny field with an egg and some bread. A teacher draws a giraffe on the grass. At dinner they all drink water.

Read and listen to the text. Find the sounds.
Now I can …Yes / Not yet
say where I’m from and talk about the weather…
say what I did with past verbs…
search online with a keyword and stay safe…
measure in cm, m, g and kg…
order food and answer politely…
read ff, ll, ss, spr, str, pr, br, er, gg, nn, tt…
Now I can. Read each line and say Yes or Not yet.
Class activity

Now I can. Copy the six lines of the list on paper. The child puts a tick next to each line they can do. For a line with Not yet, choose one activity from this term and do it again. Share the list with a grown-up.

Practice
1
Listen. Which sound do you hear at the end: er or ll?

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2
Look. Which picture has br in its name: the bridge or the sun?
3
Fill in: __ing (spr or str?). It is the season after winter.
4
Fill in: but__er (tt or nn?). We put it on bread.
5
Writing: copy ‘a giraffe in the grass’.