Lesson 41 • the letter u

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Learning objectives Extra assistance

Children will: The short /u/ sound may be mispronounced in a
• identify the sound u. variety of ways depending on students’ language
• recognise and write u and U. backgrounds. Give them opportunities to practise
• identify reading rules. saying /u/ words. Ask students to distinguish between
vowel sounds in a pair of words by asking them a
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions question and giving them two answers to choose
Text structure and organisation from. For example:
ACELA1432 point to the letters and the punctuation in Cut and cat. Which is a pet?
a text Cup and cop. Which do you drink from?
ACELA1433 learn about print: direction of print and
Classroom activities
return sweep, spaces between words
Phonics and word knowledge Which Hat?
ACELA1440 identify familiar and recurring letters and Place five hats on the floor with the labels a, e, i, o, u.
the use of upper and lower case in written texts Discuss the short vowel sounds. Have a pile of objects
or pictures of objects that have a short vowel sound.
ACELA1817 know how to read and write some high-
Each student chooses one and works out which hat it
frequency words
must go in. Discuss their choice with the class.
ACELA1819 segment and blend using onset and rime
Making Sentences
Creating texts
Write a sentence on the board with no capital
ACELY1653 follow clear demonstrations of how to letters, no spaces and no punctuation, for example:
construct each letter, learn to construct lower case icanseethecat
letters
Ask students to help you fix it. Take one suggestion
Word families at a time and rewrite the sentence using that
suggestion, for example: Icanseethecat
fun, sun, run
Take more suggestions and rewrite the sentence
Vocabulary words again and again, until it is correct.
umbrella, unlock, unhappy, unicorn, unwrap,
underground, underwater, ugly

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Lesson sequence Content and skills Children will:
Hear: Introduce reading rules: read make sentences and read Worksheet 1
Animated Lesson across a line, gaps between them. Identify /u/ sound in Phonemic awareness
words, capitals, full stops and isolation.
question marks. Introduce the
sound /u/.
Write: Reinforce correct letter write the letter u. Worksheet 2
Dot-to-Dot formation of lower case u. Handwriting
Find: Recognise u in upper and locate lower case u and capital Worksheet 3
Letter Grid, Know Your lower case. Identify upper and U. Match lower case letters Beginning and middle sounds
Alphabet, Frog Hops lower case pairs of letters. to their capital. Find the given
Recognise a given word. word in a group.
Vocabulary: Build vocabulary skills: blend sounds to read and Worksheet 4
Blend a Word, Letter Book, Blend and recognise words. make words. Match pictures Check
Rhyming Squares, Tiles, Label Recognise key vocabulary. to words. Find images of
It Identify rhyming words. rhyming words.
Read: Read aloud book. listen, follow the reading and Reading Eggs Alphabet book
Book read along. u

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Lesson 41 • Worksheet 1
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Phonemic awareness

1 Match each letter to a picture.

u
g
u
l
u
c
2 Join u things to Underting. 3 Colour the u umbrellas.

u n

h u

u u
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Handwriting
Uu
Lesson 41 • Worksheet 2
1 Trace the upside down umbrella.

Upside down
umbrella

2 Trace.

Underline your best letter.

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Lesson 41 • Worksheet 3
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Beginning and middle sounds

1 Add u and then say the word.

u mbrella gly

nicorn nhappy
2 Add u and then say the word.

c t b n

n t c p
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Check
Uu
Lesson 41 • Worksheet 4
1 Trace and write.

2 Circle all the u words.

3 Match each picture to a word.

cup
bun
umbrella
sun
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u
uuu
Draw Trace Write
umbrella

uuu
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unhappy

uuu
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ugly

uuu
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underground

uuu
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unlock

uuu
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unwrap

uuu
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unicorn
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Activity 1 Activity 2
Write u each time you read the book. Clap each u word as you read.
I read u _____ times!

I counted _____ u words.

Activity 3
Find the answer. Activity 4
Which u word would you need in the rain?
Which u word is a magical creature? What lives underground?
Paint the animals and things.
Which u word would you use if you were sad?
I can read the letter u.
I know words that start with u.
Able to read independently
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Level Word count Lexile

0 8 BR

Vocabulary words

umbrella underground
ugly unlock
unhappy unwrap
underwater unicorn

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underwater underground
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unlock unwrap
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underground and
unlock.

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