Teachers Rising to the Paper Plate Challenge

... at SK Teh

The Year 2 class at SKT are halfway through Unit 3 Where Am I? The teacher used the paper plates as a warmer to review phonics and vocabulary from earlier in the Unit. Teacher Sim also used the vocabulary review to prepare the students for the story the children would read later.The paper plate warm-up was a real life version of the activity shown on page 20. The phonic sounds represented by 'oa' and 'igh' were pasted on the plates along with other sounds that made up the targeted words in the Unit (boat, goat, high, right etc.). The teacher used both sides of the plates and colour coded the target language according to the phonic. The children took it in turns to move the plates around the whiteboard to make and say the words.

Everyone say 'oa'

Make and say the words

Sounds and vocabulary

The story

Reading together

Just like any resource the teacher makes, the paper plates can be re-used in future lessons as review, or as a familiar vehicle for introducing new vocab and phonic sounds.

After the warm-up, the children were ready to read the story. Everyone read together, and after we all read, the teacher split the class into KSSR and LINUS groups (roughly the same size). Teacher Sim sent the KSSR pupils to the mentor for a re-telling of the story without the book while she worked on literacy with the LINUS pupils.
Stephen-Peter Jinks (ELC Jerantut)