Observation of Phonics

A while ago I did a short observation of phonics to see how stage 3 is taught - or how to robot words I guess. It was fairly straightforward.

Some things that came out of this observation (some of which I do already, but reinforcement is always good).

First off, there was lots of listening first and talking to begin. The lesson began with a review of the sounds (which will help the ones who are still not 100% confident with them) and then they went through the new words (all of which ended in 'at'). They spent some time robotting the words and then writing the words.

At the end, the teacher gave them a silly sentence to write.

Since I've watched this lesson, I've started giving silly sentences to write with the words. One other thing that I'm looking to do a bit more is to have the children read the sounds during phonics.

I've also noticed some of my students doing really well with robotting so I'm going to keep on moving them by starting stage 5 very soon. To reinforce the CVC words, I'm going to make (more) flipcharts to practice the skill.