1. Phonics – Moving on!

2. Phonics in action

3.  Our aim to encourage children to use their phonics in their free play (outside a phonics lesson).  Some of the children are doing this and we would ask you to encourage them to do this at home also.  Please send this work into school so we can praise and mark their work.

4. Consonant Digraphs Two consonant letters making one sound: Sh ch th ng nk qu ck zz ss Ch -i-p M - o - th Sh – o - ck

5.  Vowel digraphs  Split digraphs e.g. like, poke  The complete alphabetic code: See Chart  Children learn the simple code first

6. Reading Please read the sentence below This is how we read it at school fish and chips on a dish

7. Teaching tricky words  Write the word on paper, cut out each letter and put the word back together.  Write the word three times. Trace over it in different colours.  Look, say, cover, visualise, write, check.  Play bingo with the words.  Small word inside the word  Write the word in a nonsense sentence.  Find words with similar patterns. e.g. the, them, they  Write the word, draw around the shape of the word and cut out.  Can you add ing or s to any words.  Put words into alphabetical order.

8. High Frequency Words  There are 100 common high frequency words that the children ought to be able to read at the end of the year (see handout)  They do include some of the tricky words  Some of them are decodable

9. Blends  The children are finding blends in a word difficult to hear.  At home, encourage fine tuning their listening in to the word and to repeat the word slowly.  E.g. slow - sow

10. Homework This changes weekly depending upon the needs of your child. Therefore your child’s homework may be different to another within their class. Please encourage your child to be as independent as possible.

11. How to help your child!  Bingo using digraphs  Full circle  Buried treasure  Digraph sorting

12. Questions Please ask, as no question is too small