TOUR OF A UNIT - Lesson 3 • to reinforce the left-to-right and top-to-bottom directionality of English text • to introduce 26 GPCs (grapheme-phoneme correspondences)
The Let’s read! page is a phonics lesson. In Level 2 the key aims of these lessons are: • to learn text and picture correlation, and that text conveys meaning
Children learn one sound for each letter of the alphabet. The sounds are introduced in frequency groups and the words are all supported by artwork. The audio provides pronunciation practice and recognition of the sounds.
Let’s read!
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Unit 1 Lesson 3
Key Sounds: c - a - t - p; Sight words: the, and. Activities: 1 Tr 1.13 Listen, point and say. 2 Match. 3
Tr 1.14 Listen and say. 4 Read and trace.
Children are introduced to simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words e.g. cat, tap and begin to aurally decode (i.e. read) them.
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Tour of a Unit - Lesson 3
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Children learn a number of the most common nondecodable sight words e.g. the, and, etc. They trace, copy and write individual letters and words.