Find out why and how we teach phonics.
Why not combine physical exercise with keyword and phonics reading?! Create your own workout schedule and get fit learning your phonics and reading!
This challenge focuses on finding words in magazines, books, leaflets, newspapers, food packaging etc. that contain specific sounds. Choose 2 or 3 digraphs or trigraphs (2 or 3 letters that come together to make a sound) and see if you can find words containing these. I focused on 'ay, ee and air' but you may like to use your sounds of the week from your home learning or pick a tricky sound that you want to practice. It is great for reading too as you can challenge yourself to read the words you find!
Why not have a go at making your own flip flap phonics book to practice segmenting and blending? It is very easy to make and is a great resource to support early reading.
For something to stay in our memory long term, we need to make it more exciting. To physically play with a sound and include colour allows children to remember it both visually and physically. By making various sounds out of different materials and objects (pens, paint, chalk, flour, cereal, straws, stones, sticks, Lego, newspapers, magazines, Play- Doh), they are not only practicing physically forming and making each sound, but the repeated exposure commits the sound to their long term memory.
A game which looks at alternative spellings for phonemes teaching children that the same sound can be made by different letters.
Watch this simple game which children love and use it to practise those common exception words that children need to be able to read on sight.
Watch a reception child having a reading session and then watch the commentary to pick up some tips on how to support your child with early reading at home.
Watch the 1st early reading session then watch this as I talk through some strategies which will support your child's reading at home.
Watch the same child read the same book again and see how I am able to work on fluency and independence with her.
Watch the second session where this reception child is able to read with greater fluency and independence and then watch this for more detail on how to support your child with these.
Video 4 Zigzag Monster letters
Video 3 One armed robot letters
Video 2 Curly Caterpillar Letter Family
Video 1 Introduction and Long ladder letters
Watch Miss Griffin demonstrate the strategy of using a number line to calculate subtraction sums.
Welcome to ‘Maths with Mrs Mason’. This video explains how to make a number line to 30. It also teaches the strategies of ‘counting on’ and ‘counting back‘ with a number line. These strategies are used by the children when completing addition and subtraction sums.
A video to show you how to subtract two two-digit numbers where exchanging is required. This means we are going to exchange 1 ten for 10 ones.
A short 2 minute video about how to use your child's login details to access their Google Classroom.
Once logged in, this video will show you how to access the learning set by your child's class teacher on Google Classroom in the event of them being off school as a result of Covid19.
This 3 minute video will show you how to upload a page of your child's learning onto Google Classroom for their teacher to see.