We use Read Write Inc. phonics to learn our letter sounds, and the Oxford Owl website provides extensive guidance:
Oxford Owl - Read Write Inc. Phonics: A Guide For Parents
Click the link below for guidance on how to pronounce set 1 sounds.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/advice-for-parents/reading-at-home/phonics-made-easy/
Useful phonics websites
Here are a few websites that you might like to explore with your child:
Alphablocks – lots of videos and games to help recognise letters and read. We watch Alphablocks in school, so your child might recognise some of these already!
Phoneme pop! – the sounds/letters drift by on bubbles, and your child has to pop the matching sound!
Phonics play – there are several free games to play that will help your child with their blending and segmenting.
Green Words
We practise our reading skills during our Read Write Inc sessions by reading ‘Green Words’. These are decodable words because they only contain sounds that your child will be able to recognise. The children have met Fred during our sessions. Fred is a frog who can not read words as we can but says everything in sounds, or ‘Fred Talk’.
The children know to sound out or ‘Fred Talk’ each sound while pointing underneath the letters and then blend the sounds to make the word. If your child knows them on sight, they can read them without sounding out, and this is an important progression in their reading.
Red Words
In the Read, Write, Inc. scheme, ‘red words’ are used to help the children recognise that some words are tricky to read because you can not sound them out in the normal way. With your child, look for the parts of each word they can sound out normally and then identify the tricky parts! Your child needs to be able to read these words on sight.