This week the children have looked at :
‘o’ – All around the orange. o
‘c’ – Curl around the caterpillar c
READING
Fred the Frog puppet plays an important role in our Read Write Inc lessons. Fred is only able to speak in sounds, not whole words. We call this Fred Talk. For example, Fred would say m-a – t we would say mat. Fred talk helps children read unfamiliar words by pronouncing each sound in the word one at a time. Children can start blending sounds into words as soon as they know a small group of letters well. During lessons children are taught to hear sounds and blend them together in sequence to make a word. We start with blending oral sounds, then progress to reading the letters and blending them together to read the word.
The following video is an example of blending sounds with Fred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzfpod5w_Q
Order of teaching sounds
In Read Write Inc phonics the individual sounds are called ‘speed sounds’ –
because we want your child to read them effortlessly. Set 1 sounds are the initial
letter sounds. They are taught in the following order.
m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, r, j, v, y, w, th, z, ch, qu, x, ng, nk
Word time Lessons
As soon as children have learnt a few initial letter sounds they begin to learn to
blend the sounds together to read real words in a Word Time session. Each word
time session involves oral blending of known sounds before they are shown the
words written down on green cards. Children practice Fred talking the words until
they become able to read them on sight. Once children are confident reading the short sentences they are challenged to use their developing phonic knowledge to write a sentence. There are plenty of opportunities for children to choose to write within the inside and outside class room areas.
Year 1: Word time and Ditty lessons. The children need to read and write whole sentences linked to the sounds / story.
