Observation Task 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson

Focus: Identify the structure of a phonics lesson used by your MST and the supporting activities
used to reinforce the concepts taught

Objective: To encourage student teachers to identify and discuss the structure of a phonics
lesson, focusing on what the MST does, what the students do in response and the student
centered activities used to support the students learning.

Procedure: Familiarize yourself with the Observation Table: Teaching a Phonics Lesson

The Structure of the Lesson

What the teacher does What the children do Comments
Introducing the Sound:

Teacher Let a kangaroo enter the class and ask
the student what is this animal.
Teacher ask what is the first letter in the word
kangaroo.
To create the /k/, air is briefly
prevented from leaving the vocal
tract when the back of the tongue
lifts and presses against the soft
palate at the back of the mouth.
Children shout Kangaroo
KKK
The children practice the /K/ sound,
This worked really well. The children got
the idea of the sound from relating it to
the sound they make when they think
something is really yummy.
The children enjoyed this. It was fun to
see them trying to do something that
impossible.
This was a great idea the children really
enjoyed looking at themselves and
practiced hard.

The teacher shows different pictures and let

them shout the letter K if they find picture starts
with letter K.

The teacher asks the children what their lips do

when they say the /K/ sound.

Words: King, Koala, kind, ketchup, §kite,

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Hearing the Sound /K/ in the initial position:
The teacher explains she will say some words
and that some of them will begin with the /K/
sound and some will not.
She asks them to listen carefully.
She tells them to raise their hands when they
hear a word that begins with the /K/ sound.
Words: kite, bike, stuck, king, lock, rock, book,
cook, kick.
The teacher asks the children to open their eyes
and praises their efforts.
Practicing Writing the Sound
The teacher tells the children that they will all
practice writing the sound /K/ today.
She let group of children to move to the writing
center.
She sits with the children and gets them to trace
the sound /K/ following the directions
. This worked well and allowed them to
The children raise their hands when
they hear the sound /K/ in the initial
position.
The children move out into the
learning centers.
The children trace the sound /K/.
focus on the sound Km/ in the initial
position.
Some of the children were confused,
raising their arms when the sound was
at the end.
Perhaps leaving out these words or else
asking children to raise their hands if
they heard the sound at all and then
asking where (e.g. the beginning,
middle or end) they had heard it in the
word might have worked better.
Let them children repeat the direction
for repeating sound and write it.
Getting the children to repeat the
directions for writing the sound /m/ and
to draw it in the air provided good
preparation for writing on the
worksheet.
This was a good idea as working in
smaller groups allowed the teacher to
make sure that the children could hear,
recognize and accurately write the
sound /m/.
It was good to keep the children
repeating the directions for forming the
sound /K/
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Reflections on Observation Task 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson

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

2. How is phonics taught in your school?

3. What was the focus of the lesson?

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.

b. What could active engagement activities the teacher have used to

help learners b e t t e r understand the lesson?

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.

b) Describe two (2) learning center activities that the teacher

could have used to help reinforce the learning outcome.

In the school they are using STATFALL PHONICS. She let the student go by turn to use the
program. And also sometime in the closing let all the student on the carpet and let them use

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the smart board. And practice the song of sound daily as a morning routine. Also every
morning she have she let them practice the letters by having cards and go by turn, and
sometime they shout it all together. Also they have the letter book and should read it
everyday during the week.