Rachael's English Worksheets: Funny Phonics Lesson 8 The letter B b

The traditonal way to teach the alphabet in English is to teach all the letters in order. I have done this as well, but it is not the best way to have the student understand meaning. This is why with the Hickey Method, which my Funny Phonics is based upon, doesn't start with the letter A. We use i t p n s because we can get the student reading and learning real words right away. I have written these little stories to practices these words over and over again.

Pedagogically, a person can remember new material if they encounter it 7 times. So that is why we use games to increase the amount of times the student will encounter the word, and hopefully in a fun way.

Today we are learning the letter B b In the story, it is used both as a capital B and lowercase b.

Lesson 7
English	Spanish	French	Hebrew	Ukrainian	Russian
Ben	Ben - un nombre de niño	Ben - un prénom masculin	בן - שם בנים	Бен - ім'я хлопчика	Бен - имя мальчика
bat	bate- para beisbol	batte de baseball	מחבט- לבייסבול	біта - для бейсболу
bit	morder el tiempo pasado	mordre au passé	עבר של נשיכה	укусити минулий час	бита - для бейсбола
hit	pegar	frapper	מכה	бити	удариться
bin	la papelera	poubelle	פח אשפה	смітник	Урна для мусора

Questions:

Who has a bat?

Who bit the bat?

What did Ben do with the bat?

What happened to the bat?

Game Let's Play Bingo!

Ask the student to write words from this list into a bingo chart in their notebook, Or use these Bingo cards. Call out words from this list

Bingo list
I	nip	had	tin	and	asks
in	tin	ten	the	has	skip
sip	snip	tent	tap	a	tent
it	and	pet	this	cat	had
tip	said	hen	that	hit	hen
sit	the	tap	spin	nip	add
pat	hat	pans	pan	thin	in
sat	had	Ben	did	can	hid
ant	pins	bat	didn't	hide	the
nap	bin	bit	hit	stand

The vocabulary are from this lesson and from previous lessons.

Use these sample cards or make up your own!


Bingo Card 1
nap	nip	in	tin	and
sit	bin	bit	did	thin
hat	ant	the	pan	did
pins	nap	Free	pet	a
tin	had	tap	tent	cat
tap	sit	sat	thin	had

Bingo Card 2
bit	tin	and	asks	nip
tap	bin	did	the	pat
tent	in	can	sit	sat
pan	hen	Free	bat	hat
this	ten	pet	tap	that
had	bat	did	nip	hit

Basic Lesson Plan to use with all the lessons in this series:

Step 1

Teach the new letters.

Since we are online, ask the student to get a blank notebook, and draw the letter after you.

Then say the sound of the letter, and what letter in the student's Native language. You can have the student draw the letter in the air after you do it.

Explain the difference between vowels and consonants, the a e i letters are vowels, and the rest are consonants. Each syllable in English needs a vowel and a consonant.

Step 2 Find a word together that starts with the sound that the student might know.

Ask the student to draw the picture of the word, along with the letter in English in the notebook.

Do this for all the new letters.

Step 3. Go over the new vocabulary.

I will give a vocabulary list in a number of languages to make it easier for teachers to teach to many students.

Aske the student to draw a picture of each word in their notebook, along with the word in English.

Step 4 Read the story with the student. I encourage the student to read the story alone, and then afterwards I read it again with the student.

Step 5 Ask the questions about the story: In the beginning, I use the student's native language,and accept that the student will answer in the native language. Later on as the student knows more English I will ask the questions in English and expect the answer in English.

Step 6. If you can you can try to play a game with the student, you can use the templates on this link to write up games. https://www.teachenglishliteracy.org/copy-of-pages-for-learners Eventually these posts will be collected and will be available on Amazon as a book for English teachers to order as a hardcopy resource. But you can use them now for free!

Links to all the Lessons:

Lesson 1

https://rachaelenglishclasses.blogspot.com/2022/12/funny-phonics-1.html

Lesson 2 https://rachaelenglishclasses.blogspot.com/2022/12/funny-phonics-lesson-2-letter-a.html

Lesson 3

https://rachaelenglishclasses.blogspot.com/2022/12/funny-phonics-lesson-3-letter-d-d.html

Lesson 4

https://rachaelenglishclasses.blogspot.com/2022/12/funny-phonics-lesson-4-letter-h-h.html

Lesson 5

https://rachaelenglishclasses.blogspot.com/2022/12/funny-phonics-lesson-5-th.html

Lesson 6

https://rachaelenglishclasses.blogspot.com/2022/12/funny-phonics-lesson-6-we-learn-letter.html