Phonics'Every child a reader' |
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At Saint Anne’s, our aim is to ensure that every child leaves our school as a competent and confident reader and we believe that a strong start is necessary. Therefore we teach early reading in the following ways:
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“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.” (J.K. Rowling) |
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At Saint Anne's we use Read Write Inc (RWI) as our phonics scheme to help develop early reading. In this programme, children are systematically taught around 40 phonic sounds and the combination of letters used to represent each sound. The programme helps all children learn to read fluently and at speed so they can focus on developing their skills in comprehension, vocabulary, and spelling. The children are assessed and grouped according to their ability. Small group phonics lessons are taught daily by trained staff and there are consistent expectations across the range of abilities. At the end of each half term, the children are assessed to check on their progress and regrouped. When using RWI to read the children will:
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How to teach blending to children
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‘Fred Talk’ Children learn the pure sounds (‘m’ not’ muh’,’s’ not ‘suh’, etc.) so that they are able to blend the sounds into words more easily. We call this ‘Fred Talk’ e.g. m-o-p, c-a-t, m-a-n, sh-o-p, b-l-a-ck. To expose your child to the idea of blending sounds together to make words, break down the words of the simple vocabulary you often use at home. For example, “please pass me that c – u – p”, “time for b – e - d”. This will help your child to practise their own oral blending as they can repeat the sounds back to you and then say the word. |
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the children are taught the sounds in 3 sets. |
Set 1 Sounds
Set 1 Sounds are taught in the following order together with rhymes to help children form the letters correctly and instantly recognise sounds ready for blending. Children will also use pictures for each sound to help recognise the sound and then form the shape of the sound.
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Set 2 Sounds
The children are then taught Set 2 Sounds – the long vowels. There are 12 Set 2 ‘speed sounds’ that are made up of two or three letters which represent just one sound, e.g. ay as in play, ee as in tree and igh as in high.
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| Vowel sound Set 2 Speed Sound Rhyme Green words | |
| ay |
ay: may I play day play say may tray today |
| ee |
ee: what can you see? seen need sleep feel three green |
| igh |
igh: fly high might light sight night fright |
| ow |
ow: bl ow the snow snow flow know show blow |
| oo |
oo: poo at the zoo mood fool pool stool moon spoon |
| ar |
ar: start the car bar park smart sharp car spark |
| or |
or: shut the door sort short worn horse sport fork |
| air |
air: that’s not fair fair stair hair lair chair |
| ir |
ir: whirl and twirl girl third whirl twirl dirt |
| ou |
ou: shout it out mouth round found loud shout |
| oy |
oy: toy to enjoy toy boy enjoy |
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Set 3 Sounds
When they are very confident with all of Set 1 and 2 sounds, children are taught Set 3 Sounds.
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| Set 3 Sounds | |||
| a-e |
a-e: make a cake shake name same save brave late |
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oi: spoil the boy join coin voice choice noise |
| ea |
ea: cup of tea neat real clean please dream |
ai |
ai: snail in the rain paint train rain plain strain |
| i-e |
i-e: nice smile hide shine white nice wide like |
e |
e: he me she we be me she we he |
| o-e |
o-e: phone home hope home rose spoke note those |
oa |
oa: goat in a boat toad road oak loaf throat toast |
| u-e |
u-e: huge brute tune rude use June excuse |
ew |
ew: chew the stew new knew flew blew crew newt |
| aw |
aw: yawn at dawn saw raw law straw dawn crawl |
er |
er: better letter over never weather hamster after |
| ur |
ur: nurse with a purse burn turn hurl burp slurp lurk |
ire |
ire: fire fire spire bonfire inspire conspire hire |
| are |
are: care and share bare bare spare scare flare square |
ear |
ear: hear with your ear fear dear gear spear year |
| ow |
ow: brown cow howl down brown drown gown |
ure |
ure: sure it’s pure picture mixture adventure pure |
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Please find at table below which highlights some of the keys phrases school uses when teaching RWI. |
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Fred |
Fred is a frog puppet we use in sessions. He can only speak in sounds. |
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Fred talk |
Sounding out a word, saying each of the sounds before blending |
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Fred fingers |
‘Pinching’ each sound from a word on your fingers to help spell a word |
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Green words |
Decodable words |
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Red words |
Irregular words that cannot be sounded out |
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Story Green words |
Decodable words that will be included in the storybook |
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Speedy green words |
Decodable words in the storybook that children should be able to read at speed rather than Fred talking first. |
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Fred in your Head |
Still sounding out a word but doing so in your head rather than out loud, helps build fluency. |
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Special friends |
Two or three letters working together to make one sound e.g. sh, ch, igh, air, a-e, i-e. |
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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you. (Barack Obama) |
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Green Words (Decodable words) in books (Click on your child's book band to practise the words) |
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PARENT GUIDE: You can learn more about Read Write Inc (RWI) Phonics Programme by accessing the following website: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/ Here you can find lots of free resources to support your child’s learning.
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