1. TEACHING SEQUENCE: W SOUND
Introduction
The teaching sequence starts by
showing a poster to the children to
focus attention to “w” letter sound.
This way, the children brainstorm
the words with “w” letter sound
they can see in the picture.
Then the children see more
examples of words which contain
the “w” letter sound.
Song
Secondly, the children implement a
“listenand do” activity as they have
to listena nursery rhyme and sing it
while making a specific action for
“w” letter sound.
2. Action
The specific action for “w” sound
consist on blowing onto open hand
like the wind, repeating wh, wh,
wh…
Phonemicawarenessand activities
In this part the children learn to
identify the sounds of words which
contain “w” letter sounds.
Moreover, the children develop
their capacity to segment and blend
words.
Then, the childrenpractice with two
activities that are designed to work
with “w” lettersound.However,itis
worth to mention the differences
between them.
In the first activity, the children
should identify the pair of cards
whose meaning is the same taking
into account that all of themcontain
the “w” sound. In contrast, in the
second activity, the children should
classifythe wordswhichcontain “w”
sound” and the words which have
not “w” sound.
These activitiescanbe stirreras they
are designed to be implemented
with the interactive whiteboard.
However,it ispossible toimplement
them as they if they were settlers.
3. Writing
In this part, the children should
become familiarwithletter“w”.This
way, this high tech teaching
sequence provides with a write
template whichallowsthemtolearn
how to draw the letter“w” incapital
letter and in lower case.
Then they are going to blend and
segmentsome words in order to get
familiar to this sounds in some
words at the same time they learn
English reading and speaking
strategies.
Finally, this sequence offers a slide
to write the missing letters which
correspond to the sounds studied
before.