1. Click on a day of the week – further help on the last slide
Days of the Week
Friday
Monday
Thursday
Saturday
Tuesday
Look , Say, Cover , Write, Check for Milestone 8 – Entry 1. See last slide for teaching notes.
Maggie Harnew. May
Sunday
Wednesday
Click on a day of the week – further help on the last slide

2. Monday yesterday tomorrow Cover
For colour click on the day of the week

3. Monday
Cover

4. Look

5. Tuesday yesterday tomorrow Cover
For colour click on the day of the week

6. Tuesday
Cover

7. Look

8. Wednesday yesterday tomorrow Cover
For colour click on the day of the week

9. Wednesday
Cover

10. Look

11. Thursday yesterday tomorrow Cover
For colour click on the day of the week

12. Thursday
Cover

13. Look

14. Friday yesterday tomorrow Cover
For colour click on the day of the week

15. Friday
Cover

16. Look

17. Saturday yesterday tomorrow Cover
For colour click on the day of the week

18. Saturday
Cover

19. Look

20. Sunday yesterday tomorrow Cover
For colour click on the day of the week

21. Sunday
Cover

22. Look

23. Spell the days of the week
Maggie Harnew.
May 2008
This PowerPoint (PPT) demonstrates the use of ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’ to learn spellings. For more details please read Days of the week ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’ Activities at (this PDF has extensive teaching notes, plus a hard copy adaptation of this PPT use in classrooms with no PPT facilities). This PPT makes a good accompaniment to Andrew Speers’ “Days of the Week” plan / resources available in the Milestone 8 / E1 Lit area of Andrew’s resource also includes more details about the pictures of Monandaeg, Tyr, Wodan, Thor, Frigg, Saturn and Sun (these pictures can be deleted if discussion about word origins is not needed).
TIPS
Do not delete or move entire slides - this will affect the logical order and look / cover buttons.
Use a mouse to navigate from one slide to another (do not use Enter key as this just takes you sequentially from slide 1 to slide 23).
DIFFERENTIATION
You can edit this PPT to include any 7 words of your choice. (Take care if adding extra slides though - you will then need to add or edit the action buttons and hyperlinks).
For preEntry – focus on just one or two words per session.
The ‘Word origin’ pictures make useful memory prompts for some (E.g. Thursday – Thor – thunder) and interesting background information for students at any level.
TO USE
Display word. Read word. Talk about word origin (if appropriate for group). Look at word. What do you notice? What stands out? Shape? Syllables? Words within words? Which bits are tricky?
Click on word to split up into parts (in colour).
Look again, say word as a group.
Click ‘Cover’ button. Students to write word on small whiteboards or paper.
Click ‘Show’. Students to check word.
Repeat as needed.
Main curriculum links
Entry 1. Ww/E1.1 Spell correctly some personal key words and familiar words (for example days of week, numbers to ten). (d) understand that there are different strategies for learning to spell
Milestone 8. Ww/M8.1 Write (b) making many controlled letter shapes (c) using a conventional sequence of letters correctly from memory such as when writing their own names and other simple words which are well known to them.