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Phonics Guidance & Information
Please click the link below to support your child with saying their sounds and writing their letters:
Phonics Support for Parents – Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised Phonics Programme
For this, you will need flashcards with the different sounds written on them, eg. m-a-n. Model making the word by saying the different sounds (phonemes) and putting the letters in the right order. You then ask the child to make the word. This can be repeated a few times to make sure your child is secure in reading that word.
You can also do this with more sounds/using digraphs eg., f – i – sh or r – ai – n – b – ow
Oral blending (hearing the sounds in a word and putting them together) is an essential skill that you r child will need to have in order to begin reading written words.
Put a set of objects in a bag (for example, a box, a rock, a shell, a toy cat, a picture of a fish). Take each object out in turn and say the word then sound out each sound e.g., I’ve got a cat, c-a-t. I’ve got a fish, f-i-sh, I’ve got a shell, sh-e-ll. When you have taken out each object and put it on the table, say that you are going to ‘robot talk’ each word and you want your child to give you that object to put in the bag e.g., Give me the r-o-ck. Praise your child if they give you the correct object. If they make a mistake, show them the object and ‘robot talk’ the word then put it back on the table. Continue until they have correctly identified every object and put them in the bag.
To start off, you will have to identify a sound that your child does not securely know first. For example, if a child has just been taught the letter ‘h’ and is not consistently remembering the phoneme. For this intervention you will need a 5×4 table (see below). In the table, you should write the sound the child finds difficult at least twice in each row. You should then include another two sounds in each row, but these must be sounds that the child is secure with. When completed, the table should look something like this:
| h | a | s | s | h |
| a | h | a | h | s |
| s | s | h | h | a |
| h | a | h | s | s |
You can download and print a blank table from the document below.
If your child does not remember the name of the letter in the table, say it for them, ask them to repeat it and move on to the next one.
A great website to help support your child develop their maths skills:
The government have now put together a package of daily lessons for Reception covering, English, Maths and Foundation subjects. They are not currently related to the topic we would be learning about in school but there are some lovely lessons and activities on there. Please have a look and complete them if you wish:
A website with lots of activities and ideas to help support your child’s speech and language development:
A list of lovely activities to do and apps to use with children from 2 to 5 years old:
Exciting maths activities based around different popular children’s books:
White Rose Maths Home Learning
Lots of different maths activities:
Lots of free home learning resources for different subject areas
They have created a range of free home learning packs for EYFS:
Videos and music resources suitable for EYFS and KS1 children:
Revise the sounds:
Some fun and education shows for your child to watch:
Some fantastic and creative ideas for you and your child/ren to get involved in at home:
A great website with games that allow your child to practice segmenting and blending when reading – they are offering free access from homes with username: march20 and password: home:
This is a great website that has links to websites that are organised into the 6 areas of learning:
London is great for kids and has lots of family-friendly attractions, events and activities. During the summer holiday visit free attractions for a fantastic day out in London:
Have fun playing lots of Letters & Sounds and number games:
Teach your Monster to Read is a new, free game to practise the first steps of reading. This free website has top quality games built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme:
