Letter F: PowerPoint and Worksheets: Lesson 6

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What's inside this resource

Learn Initial Sounds F: Lesson 6 teaches the letter Ff and its related phonic sound through a 36-slide PowerPoint lesson and 5 follow-up activity worksheets.

All you need to teach the phonic letter F! Whether in school or at home, this series of phonic presentations can help you teach initial/beginning sounds effectively to all pupils, including those with special needs/dyslexia.

This lesson is part of a synthetic, systematic phonics programme for all abilities including those suspected of being dyslexic.

This lesson is in the first stage of the Reading Made Simple programme where we teach the initial, or beginning, sounds.

The ability to hear the initial/beginning sound is stressed throughout, while we learn to associate each letter with its sound.

Each lesson can stand alone but the activities will presume knowledge of the previous letters in the alphabet as Reading Made Simple teaches the initial sounds in alphabetical order.

Special features of the Learn Initial Sounds F: Lesson 6

The PowerPoint is silent so that you can interact with your child in the best way for them: full instructions are provided at the bottom of each slide - be sure to show 'Notes'.
Science of Reading Aligned
Truly phonetic; no 'i' for 'ice-cream'.
We focus heavily on phonemic awareness which is so necessary for a head start in phonics
The child is given plenty of opportunities to learn the necessary skills - perfection is not expected in lesson 1 but the teacher will be looking for the development of the necessary skills as the child works through the alphabet.

What is included in the Learn Initial Sounds F: Lesson 6?

A 36-slide PowerPoint which teaches phonemic awareness, letter/sound correspondence and letter formation along with practice games
5 follow-up worksheets

How can the Learn Initial Sounds F: Lesson 6 be used?

It can be used in multiple ways:

As the child learns each sound, you can use the PowerPoint lesson to reinforce your own lesson
It can be sent home for a child to watch with his/her parents after being taught the letter Ff in class - this will then act as revision as well as training the parent as to what is necessary to help the child.
Use in class
Use at home by parents or for home education

Suggested Method:

Introduce each letter in turn to your pupil. Have a flashcard of the letter ready.
Say each letter's sound to the child and ask him/her to repeat it thrice. Explain that some words begin with this sound. Give an example.
Use the lesson as teacher training for yourself, to see how to teach your child, or use it with the child.
Choose suitable activities (matching the ability of your child) from the pak of worksheets.
Notes are suggestions only - use language appropriate to your pupil and be sure to interact naturally. However, do make sure that you focus on the hearing of the sounds at the beginning of words as this is much overlooked in the quest to help children learn the initial sounds as quickly as possible.

Technical help:

Use the PowerPoint in normal mode so that you can see the notes and use the 'Draw' tool when prompted.

Some slides are interactive.

Teachers: Find more Initial Sounds Worksheets here: https://teachsimple.com/product/beginning-sounds-phonics-worksheets
Find FREE revision/practice initial sounds slides here: https://teachsimple.com/product/learn-initial-sounds-powerpoint

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Hear whether a spoken word begins with the /f/ sound and act on it by colouring only the matching pictures
Trace and form the lowercase letter f with correct pencil hold
Match the letter Ff to its sound after reviewing the letters A through Ee
Tell the letter f apart from previously learned lowercase letters a, c, d and e

Teaching tips

Have colouring pencils ready — the lead worksheet asks children to colour the pictures whose names begin with /f/
Read the opening teachers/parents screen first: it explains that hearing the initial sound of a word is the vital, often overlooked half of early phonics
Follow the printed worksheet directions closely — point to each letter, read from left to right, and watch pencil hold while the child traces
Teach this lesson after letters A through E are secure; both the review screens and the letter-mix games assume the child has met a, b, c, d and e already

Skills covered

Initial-sound discrimination — children name each picture, listen for /f/ at the start of the word, and colour only the things that begin with the sound.
Letter formation — rows of f on the lead worksheet are traced with attention to correct pencil hold, following the printed direction.
Letter-sound correspondence — the slides present Ff and its sound /f/ after stepping through A, Bb, Cc, Dd and Ee.
Letter recognition among known letters — game screens scatter lowercase a, c, d, e and f so the child picks the new letter out from letters taught in earlier lessons.
Left-to-right reading habit — the worksheet directs children to point to each letter and read across the row from left to right.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do the slides review earlier letters before introducing /f/?

Yes. The presentation steps through A, Bb, Cc, Dd and Ee before reaching Ff, and runs the same review a second time later in the deck — the programme teaches initial sounds in alphabetical order, so lesson 6 assumes the first five letters.

What do children do on the lead worksheet page?

Three things in sequence: read the letters across the row while pointing to each, trace the rows of f with correct pencil hold, then name each picture, listen for /f/ at the start of the word, and colour the things that begin with the sound.

Are the materials written in British or American English?

British. The worksheet directions use spellings such as Colour, and the programme comes from Lilibette's Resources, whose web address appears on every worksheet page.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

CCSS.RF.2 — Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
CCSS.RF.K.2.d — Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
CCSS.RF.K.3.a — Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.