Tuesday 6th January

LC: To be able to add unlike fractions where the sum is greater than 1, creating mixed numbers or improper fractions.

LC: To know Rare GPCs.

GPC stands for Grapheme–Phoneme Correspondence.

A rare GPC is a grapheme–phoneme correspondence that doesn’t appear very often in everyday words, or is less common than other spellings for the same sound.

In other words: it’s an unusual way of spelling a sound.

Examples of rare GPCs

Here are some common sounds with rare spellings:

/f/ → ph (as in phone)
/k/ → ch (as in school)
/ʃ/ → ch (as in chef)
/ee/ → ie (as in field)
/s/ → ps (as in psychology)
/z/ → x (as in xylophone)

1. We are going to orally segment this word:

'guarantee'

2. Write it on your white boards and tell me which grapheme is tricky.

3. Which strategies can we use to remember this tricky part?

I would like you to record the following words in your books and use the steps above for each word:

immediately

vehicle

yacht