Structured literacy PLD in School ~ 2023/2024

Recap - sequence of session

1. Name of the new learning
2. Background knowledge required
3. Introduce new learning and link to prior knowledge
4. Direct and Explicit teaching
5. Demonstration - pull down words, 
6. Letter level - add in new sound letter
7. Word level - make kids repeat words 3 times. Then T chart. 'Flex it' - when kids say it wrong, try it the other way. Helps take it to orthographic level.
8. Sentence level - use at least 6-10 words.
9. Decodable book

V=Vowel teams

Two or more sounds joined together to make a vowel.

Cheap Thread Breaks
/ē/        /ȇ/        /ā/

most common = /ē/

Phonemes for ea
eat - /ē/ - long vowel e
bread - /ȇ/ - short vowel e
steak - /ā/ - long vowel a

Rescue the Newt

ue = /ū/       ew = /ū/

The Blue Crew

ue = /oo/   ew = /oo/

 

Note - /ū/ makes 2 sounds! 

/ū/ - y - this one involves 2 mouth movements

/ū/ - oo - 1 mouth movement

Phase 1 

• au spelling is at the beginning or middle of a word.
• aw spelling is at the end of words
• claw, jaw, draw, awe, pause, launch, sawmill, author, August, audit.

Claw Sauce

aw/au - /or/ or /aw/

Phase 2

• often use aw spelling before words ending in 'n' or 'l' or 'k'
• sprawl, squawk, fawn, yawn, shawl

Look at the Moon

/oǒ/                /oō/

Out Now

ou - /ow/    ow - /ow/

Phase 1 

• ou in the middle/beginning of a word, ow at the end of a word.

Out Brown Owl

Phase 2

• ow can also be in the middle of a word if the word ends in 'n' or 'l'. 

You can introduce pseudo words when kids understand the spelling patterns. 

Spoil the Boy

oi - /oy/  oi - /oy/

Activity for Orthographic Mapping