Post on 10-Oct-2020
Reception Literacy Learning Week 11 – 06.07.20
Lesson 1: To answer questions and make predictions about a text.
Activity One: Please can you and your child read the text; ‘Night Garden’ together. On the following slides are a number of comprehension questions for the children to answer in their own written sentences.
Activity Two: Making predictions; recap that a prediction is a sensible guess. Ask your child to predict a new ending to the story. This can be verbalised and written by a grown up or your child could challenge themselves to write it themselves.
Finish the ending…
The fox looks through the window…
Top Tip
Remember to use your Fred Fingers to
sound out the words you want to write.
Say your sentence out loud to help you
to remember what you want to say.
Remember your finger spaces.
Where should we use capital
letters in our writing?
Starting Sentences
Capital letters are always
used to start sentences
He loves to eat cake!
Photo courtesy of viviannguyen(@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence – attribution
Proper Nouns
• Nouns are naming words.
• Proper nouns are naming words for individual people, places, days of
the week and months of the year.
• Proper nouns all need capital letters.
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
girl Helen
country England
city Sheffield
football team Nottingham Forest
day/month Monday/September
The Personal Pronoun ‘I’
When we are writing about ourselves we use the
personal pronoun ‘I’
I can tell the time.
The personal pronoun ‘I’ always needs a capital letter.
Now it’s your turn …
Add capital letters in the right places in these sentences.
Remember, the beginnings of sentences, proper nouns
and ‘I’ need capital letters!
1. it is always snowing in iceland.
2. i like going to london.
3. mariam and sophia went to the shops in sheffield.
4. when i was a baby i didn’t have any teeth.
5. my brother zach and i watch football every saturday night.
Lesson 3: Phonics Revision
This week we will revisit the sound ‘ou’.The bubbles below give you some ideas and activities of how to do this.
In the Set 2 phonics
booklet - focus on
‘ou’ page 13.
The phonics booklet
can be found in this
folder.
Can you write a
sentence containing
tricky red word was and a word
containing the ‘ou’
sound?
Spot the
hidden ‘ou’
words in the
beach scene
on slide 15.
Spot and
highlight words
with the ‘ou’
words inside
them on slides
13-14.