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What is phonics? Phonics – Reading and writing Blending - to draw individual sounds together to read/pronounce a word, e.g. n-ap, blended together, reads nap Digraph — two letters making one sound, e.g. sh, ch, th, ph. Trigraph - three letters making one sound e.g. igh Split digraph - two letters, split, making one sound, e.g. a-e as in make or i-e in site But my child already knows those letters?! Learning a letter consists of: 1.Distinguishing the shape of the letter from other shapes 2.Recognising the sound (phoneme) associated with that letter shape. 3.Writing the shape of the letter with the correct movement, orientation and relationship to other letters 4.Naming the letter 5.Being able to recall and recognise the shape of a letter from it’s sound 6. Writing the Willowbrook way How do we teach reading? 1) Hearing the initial sound in a word c-a-t cat begins with c 2) Sound out the letters slowly. Then a little quicker. Continue to sound out the word until your child can hear it 3) Help them to succeed every time they read a word c-a-t (slowly) c-a-t (a little quicker) c-a-t (quicker) 3 Read words and learn to break the words down to read independently. goat To understand what they have read. Writing Hear and write the sounds they can hear. Not always correct spelling. Eg. elephant they may write elefunt. Writing simple sentences and starting to use finger spaces Willowbrook writing satpin Building words l–o-g Using magnetic letters or moveable letters to make words. Using pictures to help! Three letter words Beginning with 3 letter words (cvc) i.e. cat, and moving on to 4 letter words (ccvc) i.e. chip. This includes diagraphs i.e. ch Tricky words Children have to learn to read and write them. You cannot sound them out! Use the red words sent home. Choose 1 or 2 words a week ONLY. You could practise them in the following ways; - Cut up the words Stick them on the wall, fridge, cupboard etc… Read, cover and say Hide them around a room, find them and read them Look at the word, read it, cover it up, write it and check your spelling - High five the words, saying them at the same time