Observation Task 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson
Table 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson
The Structure of the Lesson
What the teacher does
Introducing the Sound:
 The teacher shows the students
video “Song of Sound”.
 Review with students the sounds of
the letters that they take it before.
 Shown them the action and ask
them to preform it together
 Explain to the students that today
they are going to learn a new
sound.
 Shown the students a flashcard and
sing “r for hat r, r, r”.
 The teacher displays some words
that start with sound such as hat,
helicopter, horse, heart.
 The teacher asks children to give
her words start with sound “r”.
And she gives each student a
chance to answer.
Hearing the Sound in the initial
position:
 The teacher shows the students
how to pronounce the letter /r/.
 Let’s the students to pronounce
the letter and show their friends.
 Teacher shows the students the
flashcard with picture and words
that start with letter “r” and ask
What the children do
 The students saw the
video and sing “song of
sound”.
 Remember the sound
that they take it before
“K, E, U”.
 The students were
getting ready to learn
new sound the capital
and small of letter “r”.
 The students see the
flashcard of a new
sound.
 The students see how
the teacher pronounce
the sound and repeat it
after their teacher.
 The students will learn
the new words such as
hat, helicopter, horse.
 The students give the
teacher words start with
sound \r\ such as rabbit,
ring, rocket.
 The students see how
the teacher pronounce
the sound of letter \h\.
 Acting how pronounce
the sound and show
their friends.
 The students repeat after
their teacher to learn
how to pronounce the
Comments
 When the students see
the video of “song of
sound” and act what they
see of each letter that
helps the students to
remember each letter the
capital and small letter.
 Also, that let the students
enjoy when they learning
even that some of the
students they faced some
of the difficulty with
writing they letters but at
least they remember the
form of the letters the
“capital & small letters”.
 That helps the teacher to
see how the students
pronounce the sound of
the letter.
 This idea working well
with students because that
let the students focus
while they acting of each
sound of letters with a
video.
 Also, that help the students
to remember and
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 the students to give some words
that start with letter “r”.
 The teacher read the words for
the students and they repeat after
their teacher.
sound of the letter and recognized the form of
try to blending the each letter and sound.
words that start of letter
“r”.

Introducing the Writing of the

Sound:
 The teacher shows the students
tracing word card that start with
sound \r\.
 The teacher shows the students
how to write the letter “r”, start
from up to down to make a
straight line then the little
arrow.
 The teacher repeated in front of
the students of how to write the
sound \R\.
 Then she gives each student a
chance to write in their small
board trying to write the sound
\r\ and show their teacher.
 The students see how to  Getting the children to
write the sound of letter repeat the directions for
\r\. writing the sound /r/ and
 Students listen to the they practice for writing
teacher carefully. on their book or
 The students follow the worksheet.
teacher instruction of
how to write it on the
carpet.
 All the students will have
a chance to write the
sound on the board in front
of all students.

Practicing Writing the Sound:  The students listening to

 The teacher tells the students
that we are going today to
practice how to write sound \r\.
 The teacher will take each
group one by one to practice
writing letter “r”, and the other
groups of the students are
working in different centers.
 Then she switches with other
group to practice writing.
the teacher to get ready
to practice how to write
the sound \r\.
 The students will listen
to the teacher when she
calls which group to
practice with them.
 One group of the
students practice with a
teacher while the other
 This was a good idea to
work with small group
which that help the
teacher to focus with
each student and to spend
more time with low level
students.

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students working in
different center.

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Reflections on Observation Task 2: Teaching a Phonics Lesson
1. What program is used in your school to teach phonics?
 Song of the sound.

2. How is phonics taught in your school?

 They used technology, show the students video song “song of a sound song,
Phonics”. Introduce the letter by showing flashcard sound with pictures.
Teach the students how to pronounce the sound. Show the students flashcards
words and pictures start with the sound. Let the students pronounce the sound
and give the teacher word start with the sound. The teacher shows the
students how to write the sound and let the students write it with their magic
finger in the air. The teacher gives all the students a chance to write the letter
on the board. The teacher provides activities that develop the student’s skills.
For example, when students have creativity activity, for the sound \R\
students had a craft activity to decorate their raining or rainbow to choosing
any colours as they like even if it doesn’t like a real rainbow or raining to see
their creativity. The teacher assessment the students at the end of the lesson
to make sure they understand.

3. What was the focus of the lesson?

 The teacher focuses on teaching the students the shape and the name of the letter and
the sound. Recognized the small and capital letter. Identify the words that start with
the sound of the letter “H” and teach the students how to pronounce the sound od
letter “H” and developing their writing skills.

4. Were the learners engaged in the phonics lesson? If they were, select (a); if they were
not, select (b).
a. Describe the different types of active engagement activities that
the teacher used.
 The teacher starts to engage the students by showing them a video song of sound and

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 keep them sing a song. Let them remind the letter that they learned before. The
teacher has cards of sound that learned before, then she shows the students story of
the new letter that they will take today and after that, the teacher asks the students to
guess which letter we will learn it today. She has a box of a flashcard of a new letter
she asks the students who want to show us which letter we will learn it today, then
she choose a student to show their friends the letter with pictures and ask them what
this picture and that is let the students engaging with a lesson and be excited to learn
how to write a new letter.
5. What types of activities did the children participate in during their independent centers that
reinforced the lesson objective/learning outcome? If they participated in learning centers,
select (a); if they did not, select (b)

a) Describe the different types of learning center activities that the

students did.
 In circle center, the students form the small letter and capital letter
\H\ by using cubes.
 In math center, the students form the letter by using geometric
shapes and the sticks to create the sound \H\.
 In science center, the students have a sand inside a box and the
students write with their finger or brush a letter \H\.
 In writing center, the students using a playdough to form the letter
\H\.