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Aims for today: How you can help your child with their writing. How you can support your child to develop their reading skills.

Reading

Early Learning Goal: Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.

Letters and sound phases Phase one – environmental sounds Phase two – Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each (excluding j,v,w,x,y,z and qu). Blending sounds together to make words. Segmenting words into their separate sounds. Beginning to read simple captions. Phase three – the remaining 7 sounds and the following consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure and er. Phase four – adjacent consonants e.g. brown or swim

We focus on pure sounds not letter names. For example: e is sounded as ‘eh’ not ‘eee’ f is sounded as ‘ffff’ not ‘eff’ Once the children are happy using the sounds they can begin to build words within their reading and writing.

Jolly phonics lesson structure Recap – a quick game of yes and no or flashcards Teach – introduce a new sound Practise – practising using the sound Apply – using it throughout their play

Pink books – blending Red books – digraphs Yellow books – longer sentences and two syllable worlds Blue books – paragraphs Reading book bands

What can you do to help? 1.Be a role model – let your child see you reading. 2.Encourage your child to recognise letters in their environment; street names, signs, packets, brand label 3.Model blending sounds – CVC and two syllable 4.Use letter sounds and not letter names 5. Allow your child to hold the book themselves. 6. Ask your child about what they have read.

Writing

Early Learning Goal: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

Meaningful marks CVC words Labels Captions Sentences

Teh elfnt sam in th see.. The elephant swam in the sea

What can you do to help? 1. Be a role model – let your child see you writing. 2. Take advantage of any opportunity for your children to write. The more purposeful the better e.g. shopping lists. 3. Write in lower case. 4. Model sounding the word out before you write it.

Enjoy it!