At St Joseph’s we strive to give every child the best start to establish secure foundations in reading. We aim to instill a love of reading in the children where they are able to read for pleasure and purpose in addition to enjoying sharing a story together with a group. Phonics and fluency are our emphasis in our teaching of early reading and the children in our EYFS and KS1 are exposed to lots of shared reading texts which are above their age related expectation.
Word Time 1 - Blending
Word time supports your child to blend to read with the sounds they know. We use 'Fred talk' to do this - saying each letter sound and then reading the whole word.
m a t mat ch i n chin
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m, a, s, d, t |
Word time 1 |
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m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o |
Word time 2 |
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m, a, s, d, t, i, n, g, o, c, k, u, b |
Word time 3 |
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m, a, s, d, t, i, n, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh |
Word time 4 |
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m, a, s, d, t, i, n, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, ck, r, j, v, y, w |
Word time 5 |
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m, a, s, d, t, i, n, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, ck, r, j, v, y, w, th, z, ch, qu, x, ng, nk |
Word time 6 |
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m, a, s, d, t, i, n, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, ck, r, j, v, y, w, th, z, ch, qu, x, ng, nk, |
Word time 7 |
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m, a, s, d, t, i, n, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, ck, r, j, v, y, w, th, z, ch, qu, x, ng, nk, ck, ll, ss, double consonants, 2 syllable words |
Word time 7b |
Encourage your child to sound the letters and blend them together to make the word. Encourage your child to speedy read the words when they are confident.
Saying the Sounds and Blending
Help your child learn to read words by sounding-blending (Fred talk) eg. c-a-t = cat, sh-o-p = shop. Children learn to read words by blending the letter-sounds that are in the Speed Sounds set (shown further down the page).
Help your child to say the pure sounds ('m' not 'muh', 's' not 'suh' etc.) as quickly as they can, and then blend the sounds together to say the whole word.
Watch the video below to see how to say each sound. Click the picture below to learn how to say the sounds.
Reading
When using RWI to read the children will:
Learn 44 sounds and the corresponding letter/letter groups using simple prompts
- Learn to read words using sound blending (Fred talk)
- Read lively stories featuring words they have learnt to sound out
- Show that they comprehend the stories by answering 'Find It' and 'Prove It'
Writing
When using RWI to write the children will:
- Learn to write the letter/letter groups which represent the 44 sounds
- Learn to write words by saying the sounds and graphemes (Fred fingers)
Talking
When using RWI the children will also work in pairs:
- To answer questions
- To take turns talking and listening to each other
- To give positive praise to each other
The children are first taught to read one way of spelling the sounds first.
We then introduce more ways to spell the same sounds. Read Write Inc only teaches the most common ways of spelling the sounds. Less common graphemes are taught through the story books in lesson time.
Reading Comprehension
As part of learning to read, your child will learn about reading comprehension. As well as learning how to read words, it is important that children have a good understanding of what they are reading. The focus will move more heavily towards comprehension and away from phonics as your child becomes more confident with word reading.
