Page 11 - Teachers Guide to Module 3 (PONY)

Module 3: Learning to Write Teacher’s Guide.
Objective: To write lower case Harriet the Cow letter f
Lesson Plan:
Help the children to turn to the page with f in their Letter and Sound Workbook. Demonstrate the letter for the children to copy
1. Demonstrate f on the whiteboard on the Illustrated Paper.
2. The children to finger trace over the large lowercase f in their workbooks.
3. Demonstrate the letter again, saying the step-by-step direction, “start on
the grass and reach up towards the cloud, curve over the top, stop, then return down the same line to the grass, keep going to the worm, don't stop, and then curl back and return to the grass line”. The children watch, then
copy f.
4. Help the children to mark their letters for correct start, height and end point.
Independent ‘have a go’ work
• The children to then have a go at tracing the letter before forming some letters independently.
Linking sound, symbol and writing
• Look around the room to find something that begins with the letter f and draw a picture of it.
More to Learn:
Support:
Use hand over hand activities to help those that find the motor pattern more difficult. Have the children come and write on the whiteboard, on a
vertical surface and in a large size.
Take the letter card, show it to the
children and ask one of them to place it
near the poster of Harriet the Cow in the room. Use large air writing movements to
reinforce the start, height and end point,
as well as the formation. Include large
body movements to reinforce the learning.
Connections:
• Can the children name the pictures and ‘hear the letter sound’? © 2014 Shelley Birkett-Eyles. Hemispheres Think Write Limited