Lesson 3
all, al (call, almost) Materials Advanced Picture Code Cards: all (13), al (14). Picture Code Cards. Advanced Copymaster: (2). Advanced Songs CD: Giant All Song
Preparations Write the song on a large flipchart. Prepare display space for 2 Giant All murals.(See page 33) Look, say, cover, write, check Make copies from page 120.
Objectives To know that the letters a, l and l combine to make the ‘all’ sound (all as in call). To know that when all becomes a prefix it drops one l. To recognise and spell words containing all and al.
The earlier that children learn about Giant All the better. The two murals suggested on the following page provide an excellent reference to help avoid typical mistakes like ‘allso’ and ‘allmost’. The first Giant All story explains why the letter a seldom makes its usual ‘a’ sound beside ll, and the second story provides a reason for the ‘drop one l’ rule.
Demonstration: all Show the card and tell the story:
Giant All eats almost all the apples he can find. Giant All is so tall that all you can see of him in words is his two long legs. In fact his legs alone are as long as the Lamp Lady is tall! How can you tell when he appears in a word? The secret lies in knowing Giant All’s one great weakness. He has a passion for apples! He is so fond of Letterland apples that he just strides into words and takes them without asking.
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So if you see a word with an apple in it and then two straight lines right beside it, the chances are that you have spotted the two long legs of Giant All. When you do, don’t expect the apple to be ˘ because Giant All will be eating that apple! saying ‘a...’,
Activity ideas Note: You may like to teach the Giant Full story soon after the Giant All story (see page 32), or wait until the need arises to understand how to avoid errors like usefull.
Picture Code
Write these sentences on the board and ask the children to help with picture coding all, or choose some words from the word list on page 33.
Nearly all the small apples that had fallen were bruised. The tallest man of all is Giant All. The ball fell from the tall wall.
Live Spelling
Live spell or dictate: ball hall call fall wall small.
Display
Help the children to create a Giant All display based on words which they picture code, cut out and stick around the Giant. Add some small apple trees to show how much taller than the trees he is. (A staircase wall works well.)
Fluency, role-play and singing
Practise reading the Giant All song for fluency (see page 20), then sing it. A good song to accompany with miming. Use the Advanced Copymaster for further practice.
The ta est man of 32 S e c t i o n 3 : L e s s o n P l a n s
is Giflnt A .