Revisit: Children to sing the alphabet song looking at letter names and sounds. Children will be quite familar with this as we sing this song often in class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmB3SIjNdQ
Teach:
We are going to introduce the sound ‘a-e’ What sound does this make? Ensure children are aware this makes one sound even though there is two letters. Introduce it is a split diagraph what does this mean that a letter goes in-between them.
Children to watch the following videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0aCGmNNl-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1xqLjHF53A
Children to then read the words on the attached worksheet.
Application - Children to read the phoneme spotter looking for the a-e words. Children may need support reading the phoneme spotter. If this is the case please read it to your child and can they hear the words containing the a-e sound.