English and phonics in years 1 & 2

SUCCESSFUL LANGUAGE TEACHING / LEARNING - What to take into account...

  1. CHARACTERISTICS: pupils years 1 & 2

How would you describe your pupils? What are they like? What are they interested in doing? What are they good at doing? How do they behave in class? Do they like learning English? How well are they adapting to primary education? Did they enjoy English in Infants?What can you say about their levels of English? How much has the lock down affected their learning?


COORDINATION INFANTS-PRIMARY IS CRUCIAL!!!

2. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: Principles of language development

  1. Children learn what they hear most.

  2. Children learn words for things that interest them.

  3. Interactive and responsive, rather than passive contexts promote language learning.

  4. Children learn best in meaningful contexts.

  5. Children need to hear diverse examples of words and language structures.

Source: www.semanticscholar.org

3. CREATING MOTIVATION

  • Connect lesson content with real life

  • Personalised tasks

  • Provide a purpose for productions

  • Share learning objectives with pupils

  • Begin using formative assessment (Thumbs up, Traffic lights, Two stars and a wish, Exit tickets.

  • Use lots of scaffolding to guide pupils