I Learn My Phonics Grade 2 - Lesson Plan Unit 2

WEEK 3 – GRADE 2 – LETTER O (35 minutes) PERIOD 5 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students can be able to:
Recognize and pronounce the letter Oo and its sound correctly
Understand, recognize and say the three Oo words
Write the letter Oo
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 2 - Lesson 1
Letter Oo
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
olive, orange, octopus
Sight words
this, is
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.6 & 7
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Photocopies of a page from story books
Masking tape
Warm-up (5 mins)
Greet students
Activity: Hot Cards 
Have the students sit down.
Hand out the phonics card from the previous unit.
Play the song from Lesson 2 Unit 1 (Track 06).
While the song is playing, the students pass the phonics card around.
Stop the song, the student holding the phonics card must say that word.
Presentation & Practice
Listen, point and repeat. Colour (Track 08): Introduction of letter O, its sound and how to pronounce the words beginning with Oo (7 mins)
Use a card with letter Oo (or write on board the letter Oo) to introduce to the students the new lesson.
Instruct students how to pronounce the letter name and the letter sound by saying: “This is the letter O /@U/. The letter O says /Q/.”
Repeat several times and check students’ pronunciation (letter O /@U/ and its sound /Q/)
Use the phonics cards with olive, orange, octopus, read the words out loud and have students repeat.
Use gestures to help students to understand the meanings of the three words.
Stick the cards on board and have students repeat the words chorally several times (in the correct order and then in any order).
Call some students to say the words out loud and correct their mistakes (if any)
Ask the students to open their books and colour in the letters.
Activity: Where’s the Letter? (3 mins)
Divide the class into 5 groups. 
Hand out photocopies of the page from some story books.
Give the students 2 mins to search for and circle the letter Oo on that page. 
Give feedback.
Listen and point. Choose. (Track 09): Read the words with structure “This is an” (5 mins)
Have students look at the book and listen to the words: an orange, an olive, an octopus
Have students listen and repeat the words for several times
Put up the phonics cards on the board.
Point to the orange card and say: This is an orange.
Ask the students come to the board.
Point to the phonics card and say: This is an..
Give feedback
Activity: Jumping Game (6 mins)
Put a line of masking tape on the floor
Designate one side True and the other False
Hold up a phonics card (e.g: octopus) and say: octopus
Jump on the True side.
Hold up another phonics card (e.g: olive) and say: nut
Jump on the False side.
Do the same with another phonics card
The students who end up on the wrong side sit out.
Give feedback
 Chant and show! (Track 10) (5 mins)
Use the phonics cards on the board and have students sing the chant with olive. Do the same with orange and octopus.
The whole class sings the whole chant. 
Do the chant again without the CD. 
Keep the rhythm by clapping your hands or snapping your fingers. 
Give feedback
Production (4 mins)
Divide the class into 3 groups (olive, orange, octopus).
Each group says the appropriate chant while the rest of the class claps.
Ask the groups to show their corresponding picture cards while they chant.
WEEK 3 – GRADE 2 – LETTER O (35 minutes) PERIOD 6 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Recognize and say the three Oo words correctly 
Do the corresponding actions
Read the story
Sing letter Oo song
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 2 - Lesson 2
Letter Oo
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
olive, orange, octopus
Sight words
this, is, an, with, and
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.8
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up (4 mins)
Greet students
Show the phonics cards, ask students to do corresponding actions then say the sound of the letter and words. 
E.g. Teacher: (show the ‘olive’ card). Say ’olive’
 Class: (mime eating an olive) /Q/ olive
Presentation & Practice
Lead-in Activity: Draw it Game (5 mins)
Divide the class into 2 teams, A and B.
Ask two students, one from each team to come to the board.
Name a word item from the previous lesson. 
The students quickly draw it.
The student who finishes first will get 1 point.
Do the same with the other words.
Give feedback. 
4. Listen. Read along (Track 11) (8 mins)
Encourage the students to point to the picture of the word that the teacher says.
Play the CD. Have the students listen to the story once.
Play the CD again. The students listen and point to the pictures of the key words when they hear them in the story.
Read the story. The students follow their books.
Teacher reads the printed words then let the students look at the pictures and say the words.
Ask students work in pairs. One reads while the other checks, then they change roles. Or one reads the printed words while the other looks at the pictures and says the words.
Activity: Say the Sight Words (3 mins)
Point to and say the sight words: this, is, an, with, and
Have students repeat
Have some students read them aloud.
Activity: Memory Game (5 mins)
Put up the phonics cards on the board.
Ask the students to memorise the order in which the items appear.
Remove the phonics cards.
Ask a student to name the items in the correct order.
Do the same procedure with changing the order of the phonics cards.
Give feedback
5. Song (Track 12) (5 mins) 
Put the olive, orange and octopus phonics cards up on the board.
Point to the octopus and say: “This is Mr Octopus!”. The students repeat.
Follow the same procedure and present the rest of the song.
Play the CD. The students listen and sing along.
Play the CD again. The students sing and do corresponding actions.
Activity: Step on It Game (5 mins)
Put the phonics cards in a circle on the floor.
Play the song (Track 12).
Have the students walk around the cards.
Stop the music and name an item on one of the cards. (e.g: orange)
The students race to step on that orange card.
The first student to step on it is the winner.
Continue the activity until all phonics cards have been removed. 
WEEK 4 – GRADE 2 – LETTER O (35 minutes) PERIOD 7 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Read and say the three Oo words correctly 
Recognize and say a new Oo word correctly
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 2 - Lesson 3
Letter Oo
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
olive, orange, octopus, omelette
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.9
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up (5 mins)
Greet students
Play the song from lesson 2 Unit 2 (Track 12), ask students to sing along and do corresponding actions.
Or
Ask the students to open their notebooks. In two minutes, the students write as many Oo's as they can. The winner is the student who has written the most.
Presentation & Practice
Activity: Thumbs Up or Down (5 mins)
Ask the students to close their books.
Hold up the phonics cards one at a time.
Ask the students to verify the word the teacher says by putting their thumbs up or down.
e.g. Teacher: (holding up the octopus phonics card)
 Orange. Up or Down?
Class: (putting their thumbs down)
Teacher: Good! What it is?
Class: Octopus! 
6. Say the o words. Colour the o words (8 mins)
Ask the students to take out their colour pencils/ crayons.
Name some colours and ask the students to repeat.
Use the structure: “I like” and ask the students hold up the colour pencils/ crayons they like.
Show the picture in the book to the whole class.
Point to the orange and say: an orange.
Have the students say the word and colour it.
Give the students 2 minutes to circle the pictures that have Oo in them. 
Go around the classroom asking the students to say the o words they are colouring.
7. Listen, point and repeat. Colour the pictures of the words that start with the o sound. Say the o words (Track 13) (7 mins)
Show the students the omelette phonics card. Point to it and say: /Q/ - omelette. Ask them to repeat.
Mime cracking and beating eggs and say: /Q/ - omelette. Encourage the students to do the same
Point to the pictures, the students do corresponding actions and say the words.
Divide the class into groups of two.
The first student point to the pictures and the other student say the word then change the roles.
Ask the students to colour in the pictures of the words that start with the /Q/ sound.
Activity: Craftwork (10 mins) 
Ask the students to take out their notebooks.
Ask them to choose one word the draw the letter and the picture in their notebooks.
Tell them to colour the letter and the picture.
The three first students who finish will show their picture to the class.
OR
Activity: Hunt The Cards Game (10 mins)
Divide the class into two teams A and B. 
Hide the phonics cards around the classroom.
Write the following for each team:
1: olive, orange
2: octopus, omelette
The students in each team have to ‘hunt’ for the phonics cards of their team.
Play the song (Track 12) from lesson 2
The first team to find all its words before the end of the song is the winner.
WEEK 4 – GRADE 2 – LETTER O (35 minutes) PERIOD 8 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Review the sound of the letter Oo, four Oo words and recognize the corresponding pictures 
Write the letter Oo
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 2 - Lesson 4
Letter Oo
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary Revision
olive, orange, octopus, omelette
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Activity book – p.4 & 5
Materials
Phonics cards
Teaching Aids
Colored chalks/ markers 
Warm-up (3 mins)
Have the students listen to the chant in lesson 1 Unit 2 (Track 10)
Have the students sing and act to the chant. 
Revision & Practice
Trace and say (Page 4 – Activity Book) (8 mins)
Activity: Revision of letter O, its sound (3 mins)
Speaking & Listening
Write on the board the big O and small o
Point to the letter O and say out loud “This is the letter O /@U/. The letter O says /Q/”
Point to the letter o and say out loud “This is the letter o /@U/. The letter o says /Q/”
Have the class repeat its sound chorally, then individually
Have the students say the sound individually, correct the pronunciation if necessary 
Activity: How to write letter O (5 mins)
Writing & Speaking
Demonstrate how to write the big O by stroke
Draw an example of letter O using dashed lines
Use a different colored chalk to model tracing the letter O 
Have some students practice tracing letter O on the board
Have students trace letter O in the books 
Students say /Q/ after each finished letter
Go around to give help if necessary 
Repeat the same procedure with the lower letter o
Trace and match (Page 4 – Activity Book) ) (10 mins)
Activity 1: Revision of words starting with letter Oo and letter Nn– Games Stand & Sit (5 mins)
Speaking & Listening
Show up the 8 phonics cards (nut, net, nest, nose, olive, orange, octopus, omelette) one by one. For example, show the card with nut, but incorrectly say olive or nose, the students should stand; if the words are correctly said, they should stay sitting. 
Do the same procedure for the other two cards.
Give feedback
Activity 2: (5 mins)
Tracing & Matching:
Put the phonics card (olive, nut) on the board. 
Copy the box from question 1 and 2 in the book to the board.
Demonstrate tracing the line of letter O, o and letter N, n using dashed lines.
Ask the students which one goes with letter O.
Match letter O with the correct phonic card (olive) and small letter o.
Do the same with letter N.
Have the students do the same procedure in their book.
Go around and give help as needed. 
Answer keys: N_nut, O_olive
Write the letter Oo. Tick (P) the pictures of the words that start with the o sound (Page 5 – Activity Book) (6 mins)
Writing & Reading 
Copy the box from the book to the board
Tell the students that you are going to write the letter Oo into the box
Demonstrate the writing 
Put phonics cards of an olive and a net on the board.
Draw 2 small square boxes next to them on the board
Ask the students which one goes with letter Oo and then tick the correct box 
Ask the students to write the letter Oo in the box in their book and tick the correct picture that corresponds to the letter. 
Answer keys: olive, octopus, orange, omelette
Colour the right pictures (Page 5 – Activity Book) ) (8 mins)
Ask the students to take out their colour pencils/ crayons.
Name some colours and ask the students to repeat.
Use the structure: “I like” and ask the students hold up the colour pencils/ crayons they like.
Show the picture in the book to the whole class.
Point to the octopus and say: an octopus.
Point to the net and say: a net
Ask the students which one goes with letter Oo and then colour the correct picture. 
Give the students 2 minutes to colour the pictures that have Oo in them.
Ask the students do the same procedure with letter N.
Go around the classroom providing any necessary help.