Teacher’s Planning and Resource Book – Junior Infants
Expected Learning Strand
Reading
Element
Learning Outcome (WILF)
Understanding 5. Phonics, word recognition and word study
Through appropriately playful learning experiences, children should be able to…
Recognise, name and sound all lower- and upper-case letters and common letter patterns, displaying some word identification strategies when reading instructional and independent-level texts.
Supporting the Learning Learning Experiences
Phonemic Awareness
• Identifying the medial sound in a word and writing it in the space provided. Sight Words • Recognise the high-frequency words: my, by. • Colour the shape of the word, trace and write the word. • Find the word among a group of words. • Colour the letters to make the word.
Exploring and Using
9. Comprehension
Recall, discuss and sequence significant details and identify key points of information in text.
Draw on background knowledge as well as a range of comprehension strategies to engage with and create meaning when working with a range of texts independently or collaboratively.
Comprehension Strategy ‘Visualising’ using the picture book The Wolf’s Story by Toby Forward
• Listen to the story being read aloud.
• Use the accompanying recording and visualise activity to visualise the setting of the woods.
• Talk about predictions and make inferences while the teacher reads.
• Discuss the events and characters in the story, asking and answering questions.
