Task Title: Observation Task 2: Teaching a

Phonics Lesson

Name: Jawaher Ahmed Alkaabi

(Technology, 2017)
 Observation Task 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson
Table 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson
The Structure of the Lesson
What the teacher does What the children do Comments
Introducing the Sound: 1. Students enjoyed the
1. The teacher ask what sound does 1. The students will make the sound lesson, they were active
the snake make. sssssss. and engaged.
2. The teacher will ask them to put 2. The students will close their hands 2. Students kept doing
their hands together like if they & make the sound ssssss while ssss action after class
want to clap, and make the sound moving their hands like a snake. was over.
ssssss while moving their hands 3. The students will focus on the 3. Two students came to
like a snake. teacher & try to copy her. me and told me new
3. The teacher will point at her mouth 4. The students will move their hands words sun, seven &
while asking the students to look again like a snake while saying the star.
how saying the sound ssssss word snake ssssssss snake.
looks like. 5. The students will put their hand on 4. In the future I would
4. The teacher will ask them to move their stomach and move it in a like to give the students
their hands again like a snake while circular way while making the more opportunity to
saying the word snake ssssssss sound sssss, then they will say guess words by showing
snake. the word sausage while still them a variety of
5. The teacher will ask the students to doing the same action. pictures.
put their hand on their stomach and
move it in a circular way while
making the sound sssss, then ask
them to say the word sausage
while doing the same action.
Hearing the Sound in the initial
position:
1. The teacher will let each students 1. Students will think of a word 1. The activity was a
say a word in English. that they want to say. little confusing for the
2. The teacher will tell them when 2. Students will take turns to say students, some of
your friend say their words, try to the words they have some of them were giving me
listen carefully and tell me if you the words they gave me tree, words that have the
heard the sound sss.
tiger, box, apple, circle, etc. letter c and x,
3. The teacher will listen to their
answer and correct them if they 3. Listen to the right answers. others were saying
were wrong. random words.
2. Some of the students
were able to say
words that have the
sound sss.
3. In future I will try to
figure out an easier
way to let the students
play this game
together.
Introducing the Writing of the
Sound:

1. The teacher will show the 1. Students will listen to 1. Introducing writing
students a picture of a snake the teacher and the sound went well,
with the letter s next to it, answer by telling her but some of the
then she will ask the students its a snake and the students wrote the
what do you see? What sound ssss. letter s on the other
sound is this? 2. Students will raise way around, some of
2. The teacher will ask the their hand to try them wrote the
students if they know how to writing on the board. number 5 instead of
write the sound s. 3. Students will sit s, some other
3. The teacher will observe as nicely and watch the werent able to control
much students as she can teacher. their hand to write it
while them trying to write 4. Students will try to probably, and others
the letter. write the letter again wrote it right, but its
4. Teacher will tell the students on the board. fine to make mistakes
that she will show them the 5. Students will follow as long as Im letting
correct way of writing it. the teacher. them to try again and
5. After showing them how to giving them chances
write it, she will call out to rewrite it.
students again to write it on
the board.
6. The teacher will ask them all
to write the letter again on
the air and floor.
Practicing Writing the Sound:
During learning centers the teacher will 1. Students will listen to 1. The activities was so
have a variety of activities related to the the teacher and sit good, it showed me
sound sss. where she ask them that students
1. The teacher will assign to sit. understand the lesson.
students to different 2. Students will listen 2. It kept students busy
activities. carefully. with learning the
2. The teacher will explain each 3. Students will trace sound.
activity. the letter s. 3. All of the students
3. The teacher will ask the 4. Students will color enjoyed the outdoor
students to trace the letter the letter s. activity.
s. 5. Students will write
4. The teacher will ask the the letter s on the
students to color the letter iPad.
s. 6. Students will match
5. The teacher will ask the words to pictures
students to write the letter with the letter s.
s on the iPad. 7. The students will
follow the teacher
6. The teacher will ask the outside and find the
students to match words to letter s.
pictures with the letter s.
7. The teacher will take the
students outside to play a
game (finding the letter/
sound s).
Reflections on Observation Task 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson

1. What program is used in your school to teach phonics?

- The programs used in Al Darari kindergarten for kg2 students 4-6 years old are song

of sounds, showing pictures to students, they also use the multi-literacy to help assist

the students, such as functional user, meaning maker, critical analyser & transformer

methods.

2. How is phonics taught in your school?

- In Al Darari kindergarten phonics taught first by showing the students an item or a picture

that start with the sound theyre going to take, then they practice saying the sound and

some words, the teacher play the song of sounds song and focus on the part/ letter

theyre taking, ask the students to give her some words that start with that sound, help

them to find new words, sometimes she let them look for the letter in the class, she teaches

them how to write it and let them try writing it on the air/ floor/ board, then she give them

activities related to the letter such as tracing, colouring, matching, writing, cutting, etc.

sometimes she would have a story that have some words with the sound they had taken or

else she summarize the lesson and ask questions about the lesson what sound is this?

How do we write it? Give me words start with that sound, etc.

3. What was the focus of the lesson?

- Schools now around the world use the synthetic phonics approach which is much more

effective, teachers now a days focus on teaching the sound of the letter & by the end of

the semester students would be able to identify 44 phonemes and that one letter can sound

differently, that the letter s can sound like sss ce s, the letter i can sound like
 eih ai i, and so on with other letters.

4. Were the learners engaged in the phonics lesson? If they were, select (a); if they were not, select (b).

a. Describe the different types of active engagement activities that the

teacher used.

- Some of the activities or engagement used in my class, were that when they take

a new sound the teacher I always try to make an action with the sound for

example, when sound ssss were taught the students would move their hands like

a snake while making the sound ssss, while teaching the sound puh would

give the students small papers to put it in front of their mouth and try saying the

sound puh and the paper would move a little, another activity that the students

enjoyed were colouring the letter, drawings start with that letter or designing the

letter with materials provided, also students enjoyed outdoors activities and they

should do more of that because it encourage their learning.

5. What types of activities did the children participate in during their independent centers that reinforced the lesson

objective/learning outcome? If they participated in learning centers, select (a); if they did not, select (b)

a) Describe the different types of learning center activities that the students

did.

- The teacher always would have a variety of activities during each lesson in

each center, such as writing the letters/ words, colouring the letter/ drawings,

matching the words with the pictures, making the letter with the playdough,
making the letter with the building blocks, searching for the letter in the class,

a game called (...something) hunter for example shape hunter letters

hunter words hunter etc. and they have to hunt the thing the teacher ask for,

if she asked for the sound a the student chosen have to find the sound a,

also complete the word activity _pple apple, there are always more types

of different activities that the teacher can use.