Lesson 78 • the word what

Name

Learning objectives Vocabulary words

Children will: wings, tail, claws, fire, spikes, dragon, eye, lake, red,
• identify and read the word what. yellow, orange
• read and write words from a dragon theme.
Extra assistance
The National Curriculum in England A strategy that can help independent readers is to
English Year 1 look at the pictures for clues to work out unknown
words. Sometimes knowing what sound it starts
Reading – word reading
with and seeing the item or action in a picture is
Pupils should be taught to: enough to help a child decipher the rest of the word.
• apply phonic knowledge and skills to decode words Most early reading books have quite literal pictures
• respond speedily with the correct sound to and sentences so using picture clues can be an easy
graphemes way to decode unknown words.
• read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar
Classroom activities
words
• read common exception words Make Your Own Questions
• read other words of more than one syllable Put the question: What is in the lake? on the board.
Read the question with the class and brainstorm a
Writing – Spelling
list of possible answers. Ask pupils to complete the
Pupils should be taught to spell: question: What is in the __? with their own word.
• words containing each of the 40+ phonemes Then they swap with another pupil and write a
already taught full sentence answer. Discuss their questions and
• common exception words answers.

Sight words
what

Reading Eggs TEACH PRACTISE APPLY

Lesson sequence Content and skills Children will:
Hear: Introduce the word what. identify and read the word what Worksheet 1
Animated Lesson in isolation and in a sentence. Sight words

Write: Identify sounds in a word and sound out a word and spell it Worksheet 2
Look, Listen and Spell, Make a write the word. Recognise correct correctly. Choose the correct Read and write
Sentence word order for a sentence. words to make a sentence.

Find: Identify the order of a sequence put pictures in order to show Worksheet 3
1, 2, 3, 4, Letter Lights, Hairy of events. Identify upper and a sequence. Match lower case Vocabulary
Heads, Missing Sound lower case letters. Recognise a letters to their capital. Find the
given word. Identify the correct given word in a group. Choose
onset letter to complete the the correct initial letter to make
word. the word.

Vocabulary: Build vocabulary skills: match pictures to their initial Worksheet 4

Make a Word, Word Windows, Identify initial letters by sound letter. Match a word to its Check
The Theme Game, Words per and read written words. Blend picture. Blend sounds to read
Minute and recognise words. Recognise words.
key vocabulary.

Read: Read sentences using basic choose a word to finish the Reading Eggs Story book
Book Ends, Book vocabulary. Read aloud book. sentence. Listen, follow the What is in the lake?
reading and read along.

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Sight words
Lesson 78 • Worksheet 1

1 Trace and copy.

what
2 Finish the sentences with a word from the box.

What Who When Where

_______________________ is that girl?

_______________________ is the band playing?
_______________________ is the party?
_______________________ is in the lake?

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and write
Lesson 78 • Worksheet 2
1 Complete each sentence using words from the box.
Draw a picture.

red yellow orange fire spikes tail

I can see ________________

__________________________________ .

I can _______________________
__________________________________ .

I ________________________________
__________________________________ .

2 Colour each spike a colour that starts with that letter to

make a pattern of dragon spikes.

y r o y r o y r
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Lesson 78 • Worksheet 3

1 Join each word to a picture.

tail
eye
fire
wing
dragon
claws
2 Colour the dragon to match the dragon in the book.

eyes = yellow
tail = red
wings = red
claws = yellow
spikes = yellow
dragon = red
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Name

Lesson 78 • Worksheet 4

1 Find the animal words and colour them.

dolphin = blue, dragon = red, butterfly = purple,
dinosaur = green, elephant = grey, monkey = orange

d o l p h i n m o n k e y
b u t t e r f l y h y m e
a r e d r a g o n u t h s
e l e p h a n t e s a i d
y o u d i n o s a u r m e

2 What is it? Label the pictures.

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LESSON 78 • the word what

What is in the lake? • Word count: 82 • Excerpt: 37 words

What is in the lake? I can see red wings in the lake.

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What is it? I can see a red tail in the lake.

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What is it? I can see yellow spikes in the lake.

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What is it? I can see a yellow eye in the lake.

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What is it? I can see red claws in the lake.

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What is it? I can see orange fire in the lake.

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Activity 1 Activity 2
Colour a dragon each time you read the book. Clap the syllables in each word.
I can clap syllables in words.

I read What is in the lake? ____ times! Activity 4

Find the answer.
Activity 3
What is the first thing you see in the lake?
Play I Spy with a friend. What colour are the spikes? What is orange?
Give clues about colour and shape. I understand the book, What is in the lake?
I can describe things I see.
Able to read independently
5
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Needs assistance to read
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What is in
the lake? What is in the lake?
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Level Word count Lexile

1 31 BR

Words to know

can it
I see
in the
is what

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What is in the lake?
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Written by Lisa Thompson and Katy Pike

Pictures by Andy and Inga Hamilton
Editor: Amy Russo
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What is in
the lake?

Written by Lisa Thompson

and Katy Pike
Illustrated by Andy and
Inga Hamilton

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What is in the lake? I can see red wings in the lake.
What is it?

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I can see a red tail in the lake. I can see yellow spikes in the lake.
What is it? What is it?

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I can see a yellow eye in the lake. I can see red claws in the lake.
What is it? What is it?

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I can see orange fire in the lake. What is in the lake?

What is it? It’s a red dragon!

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Focus Questions Trace

What is red?
________________
What is orange?
________________
What is in the lake?
________________
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Write

The dragon has Can you see what’s

in the lake?
______________.

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