Phonics
Phonics
Phonics is a way to teach children how to read and write. Your child will participate in a 30 minute Phonics session every day to learn the skills of early reading and writing. We learn 4 sounds every week. At Victoria Primary School we use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds. You can find materials to help you support your child on the website: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Please click on the 'Related Downloads' section on the right for some useful sound sheets ----->
"Sound talking" and "Sweep": This strategy teaches your child to read individual graphemes and sweep the sounds together. For example, "b-oa-t boat"
"Segment": This strategy teaches your child to say the sounds they can hear in words. For example, when writing 'boat' your child will say "b" as the first sound.
Summer:
Phonics workshop
We will be holding another phonics workshop on Monday 29th April at 2:30pm. We will share how you can support your child to develop their early reading skills, as well as answer any questions you may have. The workshop will finish in time for you to collect your child from class. Please come along!
This term we will be learning:
Spring:
In the spring term, we have been focussing our learning on digraphs and trigraphs. Digraphs are 2 letters that make one sound, and trigraphs are three letters that make one sound. We have been working on recognising the graphemes on their own and then within words. The words that we have been practising reading have been getting longer, and we have even been tackling some tricky compound words!
See the sheets below that will tell you the sounds we have learnt this term. It is very important that the children practise recognising these and using them to read, as this is what they will need to do by the end of the year.
Autumn:
In the autumn term we will begin introducing children to new phonemes and graphemes that will help them to begin to read and write simple words.
Below are the sounds that your child will be learning, please take time to go through these with your child and practice them at home. On the website, there are videos showing how each of the different sounds are pronounced. It is important that children are practicing pure sounds to support their reading.
Please come and chat with Miss Murphy, Mrs Moore or Miss Musson if you have any questions about phonics.