Early Reading and Phonics
In Nursery and Reception, your child will learn to read the Set 1 sounds by sight. They will also learn how to blend them together to read words e.g. c-a-t = cat. In Year 1 and Year 2, they will then move onto learning to Set 2 and Set 3 sounds.
Before your child can start to read, they need to learn to:
- Say the sound that is represented by each letter or groups of letters. These are called ‘speed sounds’.
- Know how to blend the sounds together in a word to read it e.g. c-a-t = cat. This is called ‘sound- blending’.
Practice the correct pronunciation for the sounds:
Set 1 speed sounds
To begin, we learn a sound a day. We use pure sounds so that your child will be able to blend the sounds into words more easily.
We then use ‘Fred talk’ to sound out words. 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. At the start we use magnetic boards and magnetic letters to build the words. The first words that we start to blend, are the following:
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Word Time - blending words | [pdf 148KB] |
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Set 2 speed sounds
Once your child knows all Set 1 sounds by sight uses them to blend to read words, we start teaching Set 2 initially and then Set 3 long vowel sounds.
We now start to learn that two or three letters together can make one sound. We call them ‘special friends’.
Partner Reading
Spelling with Fred Fingers
Partner Reading
Letter Formation
Letters to support reading development at home
The letters below will help you to support your child in making steady progress with their phonic and reading development. Each half term you will be told which reading group your child is in.
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1 Sound Belnding Group 1A - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 339KB] |
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2 Sound Belnding Group 1B - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 533KB] |
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3 Sound Belnding Group 1C - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 535KB] |
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4 Photocopiable Ditty Group - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 450KB] |
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5 Red Ditty Group - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 425KB] |
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6 Green Group - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 538KB] |
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7 Purple Group - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 540KB] |
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8 Pink Group - Letter to support reading development | [pdf 541KB] |
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RWI Phonics - Information meeting
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set 1 sounds parent meeting | [pdf 1MB] |
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Please use the link below to find out how we teach Early Reading and Phonics. Thank you.
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RWI Phonics - Information for Reception parents
- The letter formation chart highlights how to form the letters correctly with your child.
- The information booklet explains the RWI phonic and reading programme we use at Camelford School.
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Letter-formation-chart | [pdf 320KB] |
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RWI Parent information booklet set1 | [pdf 570KB] |
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Set 1 sound mat | [pdf 2MB] |
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Phonics Home Activities | [pdf 8MB] |
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Home practice cards | [pdf 2MB] |
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fred talk games | [pdf 122KB] |
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