Phonics
This week we will begin phase 3 ‘Letters and Sounds’.
The purpose of this phase is to:
- teach more graphemes, most of which are made of two letters (digraphs), for example, ‘oa’ as in boat.
- practise blending and segmenting a wider set of CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
- learn all letter names and begin to form them correctly
- read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
- read and write words in phrases and sentences.
Here are some examples of words your children will be reading: tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil
(Remember: these words all contain three phonemes).
During phase 3 the children will learn more ‘Tricky Words’.
he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, said
Children will begin to write sentences independently.
Definitions
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.
Phoneme–Phonemes are sounds that can be heard in words.
e.g. c-a-t
Grapheme–This is how a phoneme is written down.
Digraph –This means that the phoneme comprises of two letters
e.g. ll, ff, ck, ss
Maths
We are continuing to investigate the number 5 and find one more and one less than a number. We will be learning about the properties of shapes with four sides.
Literacy
This week we will be introducing capital letters and full stops and beginning to read and write simple sentences
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