Teachers Rising to the Paper Plate Challenge

 ... at SK Pulau Mansok

The Year 1 teacher used the paper plate challenge to give her pupils the opportunity to develop an understanding of the relationship between the sounds of the segmented phonemes and the way they blend into a word; she also presented the meaning of the word through pictures. Teacher Maheran divided the plates into sets of three: 1. segmented sounds, 2. whole words, 3. illustrated meanings. The children had already been introduced to the phonics and the vocabulary from Units 1 through to 7. The pupils were unaware of the pedagogy, of course. The class was engaged in a variety of games to reinforce the sounds of the each words, the words themselves, and the meanings from running into sound-word-meaning groups to guessing / memorising the positions of upturned plated to make sets for their teams. After the games were played, Teacher Maheran gave the children worksheets she had made to accompany the language practised during the games and to practise their writing skills. It was a very successful lesson that touched on a wide variety of skills for a specific topic.
Stephen-Peter Jinks (ELC Jerantut)

The plates are divided into sets 

The students get into groups of friends.

Memory game.

Modeling how to find your group of friends.

Enjoying the writing section of the task.

Part of the worksheet.