Year: 4º Primaria (T2T Medina)

Lesson Phonics

We entered ten minutes earlier and we were observing the classroom itself. Gorgeous and practical! We took pictures for you to see. Everything is at hand and thus the atmosphere is very motivating.

They came from the recess and they were very excited. So Cristina needed to call their attention, so she put her hand on the head; they copied and this means ‘silence’.

Then she sang a kind of rap to get them to focus on the following task, which was going to be ‘phonics’. She revised the minimal pairs practicing /s/ and /ʃ/. She makes drills that students have to repeat imitating her - /s/ hands up and /ʃ/ arms crossed. She gives them 30 seconds to think of words starting with that sound. Then students give examples as if they were the teacher.

To finish the lesson, they played a dictionary race in which they have to look up the part of speech of a certain word. The students are distributed in four desks and are handed two dictionaries per desk (there are 4 or 5 students of them). They work nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

Rita M. Rabanal