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!

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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.