Supporting Reading Practise
Young readers need to do reading practice every day. How do you help your child when they are stuck on a word? This page explains the Pause, Prompt, Praise method to help with reading. Pause Prompt Praise
Learning Sight Words
There are many different lists of High Frequency Words. These words make up approximately 50% of what we read and spell so by having good knowledge of these helps to develop fluency for reading and spelling. This website has lots of activities to provide practise in many different ways. Find some that help you…
ELF Module 5 – Animal Tails
ELF Module 5 – Animal Tails ELF module 5 moves on from identifying the initial sounds in a word to identifying the final sounds in words. Learning Activities Following directions – students follow simple 3 step instructions acting out animal moves. As previously the final instruction is the same as the first e.g. do duck…
ELF Module 12- Pirates
ELF Module 12- Pirates Module 12 is focused on Pirates and consolidates all skills taught in the program. Learning Activities Following instructions – student listen to instructions and draw a picture from Muffalo Potato Read ccvc words – students match letters on keys to create words and read them. Vocabulary – students listen to sentences…
ELF Module 11- Gliding
ELF Module 11- Gliding Module 11 is named gliders. Students focus on listening for initial blends in words e.g. black – bl, snap – sn. Learning Activities Following instructions – student listen and follow instructions to draw a picture from Muffalo Potato. Listening for initial blends – students fold and make paper aeroplanes to use…
ELF Module 10 – Shapes
ELF Module 10 – Shapes The focus for Module 10 is shapes. Students continue to work on reading and spelling real and nonsense cvc words. Learning Activities Revision of letters and sounds – students make the letters with paddle pop sticks. Isolating the vowel sounds – students listen to real and nonsense words and identify…
ELF Module 9 – Circus
ELF Module 9 – Circus Module 9 is themed circus. The learning focus is on learning the short vowel sounds. The short vowels are: a as in apple e as in egg i as in insect o as in orange u as in umbrella There are a number of different songs to teach the vowel…
ELF Module 8 – Dancing
ELF Module 8 – Dancing Module 8 is themed dancing. Students build on their knowledge of the letter sounds to read and spell real and nonsense words. Learning Activities Following instructions – students learn a simple dance routine. Reading – students cut shapes and glue them into the correct places to make nonsense words. This…
ELF Module 7 – Aliens
ELF Module 7 – Aliens Module 7 is themed Aliens. Now the students can identify initial and final sounds we move onto blending and segmenting cvc words (consonant vowel consonant e.g. cat, dog, mum, dad). Learning Activities Following instructions – students pretend to be an astronaut and complete space related tasks. Blending – teachers present…
ELF Module 6- Magic
ELF Module 6- Magic Module 6 has the theme of magic. Students are focused on identifying final sounds in words. Learning Activities Following instructions – students watch a video and follow the instructions to draw different pictures. There are many different videos you can use, we like to use those from Muffalo Potato on You…
