Wairoa School

Learning from Home

Subject: English /Literacy Activity: Picture and Initial sound matching

Learning Intention: To recognise similarities and differences between pictures and words.

Teaching Strategies (differentiation of activity):

1. All students will look at, reach out to touch and interact with the resource when placed in close
proximity to it.

2. Most students will make attempts to match pictures.

3. Some students will identify and match the initial sound of a given word.

Description of activity:

Adult to show student pictures introducing the words as they show them.

An adult will model matching and individual picture to the same picture on the picture grid. Students will
then be supported to match pictures independently or with physical and/or verbal prompts.

Adult to model identifying and matching the first sounds of words related to the story, for example –
match the letter ‘J’ to the word Jack, match the letter ‘c’ to the word cow.
Students will then be encouraged to complete this activity independently or with physical and verbal
prompts.

Adult to read sentence to student ‘The boy is Jack’. Then with verbal and/or physical prompts the student
is to trace over the sentence using a pencil or texta. The second space is for the student to copy the
sentence, again with verbal and/or physical prompts. The third space is for the student to use the words
from the additional sheet and cut out and glue the words in the correct order to match the original
sentence.

Interactive Resources:

The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk read by Clare can be found using the school online learning website:

https://wairoaschool.weebly.com/ You will find the video following PLSP / PLSP Primary / Literacy
A song that retells the story of Jack and the Beanstalk can be found using the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4otnJaX3hwk

An interactive matching activity can be played using the following app on an iPad - Chooseit! Maker 3

Code: CVXWCM
Cut out these pictures and match the individual picture to
those on the other sheet.
 The boy is Jack.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
He had a cow.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
He had a cow.

The boy is Jack.

Jack j J
cow c C
beans b B
mother m M
giant g G
castle c C