Thanks to everyone who attended the learning workshop last week. We hope you found it useful.
During their phonics learning, your child will be learning the following terms:
Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound found within a word
Grapheme: how the sound is written e.g. h, ai
Diagraph: Two letters that make one sound when read
Trigraph: Three letters that make one sound
CVC: Stands for consonant, vowel, consonant
Segmenting : Breaking up a word into its sounds
Blending : Putting the sounds together to read a word
Tricky words: Words that cannot easily be decoded
At the moment children are learning their first 19 phonemes and the graphemes that represent them.
Set 1: s a t p Set 2: i n m d
Set 3: g o c k Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r
Set 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss)
They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words:
sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss
All these words contain 3 phonemes.
How you can help at home:
- Practise the phonemes together
- Articulate the sounds clearly and precisely, eg
mmm; ssss ; nnnn - Use the phonemes to make different words at home and play phonics games
- Read everyday with your child
- Attend our phonics mornings in the week beginning 28 November
Although phonics is important in teaching the mechanics of reading, reading is about much more. We also want children to read for pleasure. Reading to your child regularly will help them to develop a lifelong love of books and reading.