Lesson samples

Each lesson follows the same routine so that teachers and children know what is coming next. The routine is modelled on the Revisit, Teach, Practice, Apply approach from the original ‘Letters and Sounds’ document.

Revisit - quick revisit of previous learning

Teach -  learn a grapheme/phoneme with an action/rhyme and discussion (Deeper Understanding)

Practice - read and write words that contain the grapheme/phoneme

Apply -  read and write sentences which include words containing the grapheme/phoneme.

Each lesson is an ‘active learning session’. It involves short bursts of teacher input between which the children are given sufficient time in which to immediately practice and apply what they are learning.

 As the children know the lesson structure there is minimum time spent explaining each activity. Each section of the lesson is introduced with a repeated phrase which the children join in with to remind them of what they are about to do.