Day 12 — Two sounds in a blend, one event in a sentenceYear 1 English · T1 W3–4 · Day 12 lesson

Goal: hear st and nd as two phonemes and retell one event. Codes: AC9E1LY09, AC9E1LY04, AC9E1LA06. Prepare: five sound boxes, Day 12 choice.

1. Retrieve · 3 min. Say stand normally. Children tap /s/ /t/ /a/ /n/ /d/; contrast one tap for sh in ship.
2. Model · 5 min. Place s-t-a-n-d into five boxes and blend without extra vowel sounds. Read “Stan can stand.” Say: “This sentence tells one event. Stan is doing the standing.”
3. Guide · 7 min. Build mend, step, stand with tiles. Underline the two separate sounds in each blend. Choose one Day 12 context and ask the child to match its sentence to the invented situation.
4. Child try · 7 min. Learners read the chosen line and retell by action cards, sign, AAC or speech. They build bend from dictation; do not score handwriting neatness as phoneme knowledge.
5. Exit · 3 min. Say sand; learners show /n/ and /d/ with two counters, then read the printed word. If one end sound disappears, contrast sad and sand orally and retry later.

Access/home/extension: A learner can direct a partner to move one counter per sound. Home materials are five drawn boxes. Extension: compare how the actor changes between two controlled sentences, while keeping the blend analysis explicit.