Thanks to everyone who attended our ‘Early Reading’ workshop last week.
We will begin phase 2 of Letters and Sounds this week. Phase 2 involves learning phonemes to read and write simple words.
During this phase children will learn their first 19 phonemes:
- 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.
Blending
Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word.
Segmenting
Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear.
If you have any questions, please ask!