DRAMA WORDS

Today we´ve played to a funny game: guessing words.

First of all I write a word in a small whiteboard that my pupils can´t see.
Then I do the gesture of each sound (withouth the noise), and they have to say it aloud.
When I finish the dramatization they have to put together all the sounds and guess what word is it.
Once they know how to play, I write the word and a boy or girl do the gestures.

I am going to show you an example:

The word is "song":

These are the gestures of each sound

 And here is my pupil doing all the gestures

 S (Waving the hand like a snake)

O (Turning a switch on and off)

NG (Pretending to be a weightlifter)

The rest of the group have to guess the word.

In the last part we guess the word and move like the animal. 

MR. FROG TREASURE

With this activity I want my kids to improve their listening comprehension, discriminating sounds in some words. And as I know how much they like to play with real stuff...

Mr. Frog asks for a lot of things they have to look for in the classroom: chair, book, boot, jacket, coat, scarf, three, mat, glass, bag...

And when we have Mr. Frog´s treasure complete we found out there are some cards with letters on the floor. 

They have to put each object in their places according to its initial sound.

b: book, boot, bag

s: scarf

m: milk, mat

th: three

ch: chair

CVC/ Tricky words and more

I love working with different materials in class and...the cheaper...the better! 

Therefore, I use in my lessons a lot of recycled things such as bottle caps, pebbles,  sand, a beach ball... and items from the "1 euro store" like: popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, a swater, plastic plates, coffe cups...  

All you need really is imagination to avoid being boring with your pupils.

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Bottle caps

coffee cups

 popsicle sticks

 swat it!

 flashlight

 wordwall

 hanging tricky words

board games

 pipe cleaners

 space rockets

  beach ball and paper plates

 keyboard template

fishing game

Pacman

Phonics songs

Jolly Phonics is divided into seven groups, these are all the sounds:
And here there are all the songs, disributed in the same groups.

Phonics activities

songs
cvc words
captions
sentences

COFFEE CUPS

A really cheap but effective material to use in class is coffe cups. One of the activities I use them for, is word construction.
On each cup I´ve written four different sounds (one on "each side"). We can play to build up some words freely or using cards as you can see in the pictures. 

BOTTLE CAPS

One of the best materials I´ve ever found are bottle caps. They are consistent, have different colours and sizes and you can recycle them.

One of the activities I use them for, is for word construction.

I have seven trays with seven different colours of bottle caps, one for each group of jolly phonics.  (because it is easier for me and my pupils to tidy up).
And on each cap there is a sound. You have to keep in mind that you will need more than one "s" for example to play. I have six or more caps of each sound.

For example the first group has a light blue, the second is white, the third is yellow,...

Here there is an activity of word construction about the means of transport.  I showed them the pictures: van, bus, car, train and taxi. And with help they have to figure out how to write the word.

      

Later we play a word recognition game, and they need to find the letters to "copy" the word.