Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – More about Sounds

Learning Targets for Key Stage 2:

KSf -

to understand some aspects of how the English language works, including how grammatical features contribute to meaning and how simple texts are organized; and apply this understanding to one's learning and use of the language

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills

-	rhymes
-	poem

-	some words with initial consonant p, final consonant p, consonant blend pl and consonant digraph ph
-	some words with the long vowels a, e, i, o and u

N.A.

-	Listening
-	Reading

-	develop sensitivity towards language use in the process of communication

-	communication skills

Related Basic Competencies:

L3-L-1-P6BC:	Discriminating between words with a range of vowel and consonant sounds
L4-L-2-P6BC:	Understanding the use of a small range of language features in simple literary / imaginative spoken texts
L3-R-2-P6BC:	Reading aloud unfamiliar words with a range of vowel and consonant sounds in simple texts

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students'self-access

Part 1

An interactive activity: Peter the Acrobat
Learners help Peter the Acrobat make successful performances by identifying different sound features of the letter sound 'p'.

Part 2

Activity Plan

A classroom activity: Beauty of Rhymes
Learners are guided to discriminate between the long vowel sounds in some words by understanding and reading aloud the poems.