Page 38 - Teachers Guide to Module 3 (PONY)

Module 3: Learning to Write Teacher’s Guide.
Objective: To write lower case Zac the Grey Sheep letter x
Lesson Plan:
Help the children to turn to the page with x in their Letter and Sound Workbook. Demonstrate the letter for the children to copy
1. Demonstrate x on the whiteboard on the Illustrated Paper.
2. The children to finger trace over the large lowercase x in their workbooks.
3. Demonstrate the letter again, saying the step-by-step direction, “start on the grass, reach to the helicopter line and come back down to the grass linein a diagonal line stop, lift your pencil. Place it on the grass line and using a diagonal line,then go to the helicopter line, stop and lead out”.
The children watch, then copy v.
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 x and draw a picture of it.
More to Learn:
Take the letter card, show it to the children and ask one of them to place it
near the poster of Zac the Grey Sheep in the room. Use large air writing
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.
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