Thursday Sentence of the day and phonics

Date: 21st May 2020 @ 9:52am

Good Morning everyone!

Sentence of the day

Here are the answers to yesterday’s sentence. If you noticed that the full stops were missing then you were correct! Well done!

Football teams have substitutes.

Tigers wear joggers.

Elephants can walk backwards.

Cheetahs are the fastest animal.

 Here is today’s sentence. Put on your detective hat and have a think, what could the problem be with this sentence?

Wensdai was a glorious dae, the sun was shinin and the burds were chirping in the torl towering trees.

Phonics

Today we are going to start our phonics by recapping our tricky words. Have a look at your tricky words and write them all out in your funky writing from yesterday. I’m going to write mine in rainbow writing…

could

For today’s phonics we are going back to our polysyllabic words. Polysyllabic words are words that have more than one syllable. When we are decoding new longer words we use syllables to help us chunk the words and make them more manageable to read. 

Challenge one – Read the words below and clap out the syllables.

Challenge two – Read the words and draw a picture on a scrap of paper to match. Make sure each picture has its own piece of paper. Once you have drawn all of the pictures write out the words on separate pieces of paper. Now play a game of pairs and pair the word cards with the picture cards.

Challenge three- there are lots of games on phonicsplay to help you practice reading your polysyllabic words. Here is one of my favourites…

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den

Hope you all have a lovely day, stay safe,

Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden