Year 1

Phonics Help for Parents

Little Wandle Phonics

Phonics Videos

Blending to Read – How to practice blending sounds to read words

For this, you will need flashcards with the different sounds written on them, eg. m  a   n

You 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 – How to practice oral blending with your child

This video shows how you can develop oral blending (hearing the sounds in a word and putting them together) with your child. This is an essential skill that they will need to have in order to begin reading written words.

Grapheme-Phoneme correspondence – How to practice recognising letters and their sounds

To start off, you will have to identify a sound that your child does not securely know first.  In my video, the child had just been taught the letter ‘h’ and was not consistently remembering the phoneme.  For this intervention you will need a 5×4 table.  In the table, you would write the sound the child finds difficult at least twice in each row.  You would then include another two sounds in each row, but these must be sounds that the child is secure with.  In my video, the child is secure with the knowledge of the sounds of the letters s and a, so I used them in my table. Her table looked something like this:

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.

GPC table

Year 1 – End Of Year Expectations

This is a reminder homework is handed out every Friday and it needs to be returned on the Wednesday.

Guided reading books need to be returned to school everyday. Children need to be reading everyday and their reading records need to be signed and dated.

Meet The Teacher – Year 1

Play along with Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet. Choose an episode to watch and join in with some by finishing the word. These episodes will be useful to support your children in recognising letter sounds and recognising the more tricky sounds which contain two or three letters:

Alphablocks

Practise sounding out the words on the gold coins and decide whether they are real words (to be put in the treasure) or joking words (to be put in the rubbish bin):

Buried Treasure

Hit the Button

Free online books to read alone or with a friend or family member:

Book Trust