Phonics at Home

Lesson: EYFS

Some extra phonic work in preparation of Reception class

Getting ready to read:

• Listen to a story and retell bits of it
• Recognise their own name
• Recognise some letter sounds (e.g some sounds in their name)
• Pick out patterns and details in pictures
• Join in with language play ( e.g songs and nursery rhymes, games like ‘I spy’ etc
• Match words ( e.g match Mum from a set of cards to the word Mum in a sentence)
• Sustain concentration for 5 -10 mins daily
   
  Starting to read
   

• Read short sentences with simple two and three letter words (e.g. Mum has a big red bag)
• Retell a simple  story
• Recognise 5-10 common tricky words by sight (e.g. the, I, no, go, to )
• Write their name and a few other familiar words  Mum, Dad, it, am,
• Build sentences using familiar words ‘The fat cat’
   

To teach children how to read and write, all schools use phonics. Phonics teaches children about the sounds that make up words. In Phase 2, children start by learning what letters look like and the sounds they make, for example, children will learn what the letter 's' looks like and the sound 's' makes. Children then learn how to put letters together to spell words like 'sat' and how to read words like 'sat' by matching each letter to the sound it makes, then blending the letters to read a whole word. For example if Joe knows what sounds the letters 's' 'a' and 't' make, he can read 's-a-t' and blend those sounds together to make 'sat'. All children have a 10 minute phonics lesson every day (normally/ keep it short and exciting). Phonics can be a complicated process to understand! Please ask if you have any questions.

This weekly phonics homework for this summer (lockdown) term. It is really important that children practice their phonics at home as it helps them to progress quickly at school.

Happy reading

Mrs McPhillips

Week 1 & 2 Homework

1. Practice reading letters: s, a, t, p
   s
   …...............   …................    …...............    ….............. 
   a
   …...............   …................    …...............    …..............
    
   t
   …...............   …................    …...............    ….............. 
   p
   …...............   …................    …...............    ….............. 
    

1. Reading words and spelling words (ask children to try to read these then ask children to attempt to spell these on the back of this page):

at           sat          pat         tap         sap         a            as

Tricky word to practice reading and spelling: I

…......      …......      …......      …......      …......

Sentence to read:

I sat on a mat.

Practice writing:

My child tried to do this homework: yes / no

My child found this: (circle)   easy          medium             hard