B4 English Language · Term 2, Week 1
Blends and Consonant Clusters
Full lesson notes coming
Notes for this lesson are being prepared. The curriculum details below are complete and ready to use for your planning.
Curriculum details
- Strand
- Reading (Strand 2)
- Sub-strand
- Blends and Consonant Clusters (2.5)
- Content standard
- B4.2.5.1 - Identify and use consonant blends and clusters in reading
- Indicator
- B4.2.5.1.2 - Use the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs
- Suggested placement
-
Term 2, Week 1
(Week 13 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
- Curriculum reference
-
English Language Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 22
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.
Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)
- Through discussion, have learners come up with many words that have a particular digraph. - Have learners decode these digraphs as they read. - Assist learners to get the spelling-sounds correspondence right. Play a game of the spelling-sound correspondence of selected digraphs. In groups, have learners sound out words and identify the digraphs in them. The group that gets a lot of this right carries the day. e.g. sh: shoe, show, shirt, shine, shell, shame, shake, shop, bush, wash, brush, marsh, crush, fish