Our phonics scheme in St Joseph’s Infant School is Read Write Inc

READ WRITE INC

Children begin their reading and writing journey with Read Write Inc. Phonics.

They learn their sounds and how to blend sounds to read.

Once children have completed the Read Write Inc Phonics scheme and are confident learners they move on to Read Write Inc, Language and Literacy, continuing to develop their comprehension and writing skills through a diverse range of fiction and non fiction texts. 

As well as completing a range of Activities in Language and Literacy, children work on their spelling through a range of online and group spelling strategies. 

Read Write Inc. Phonics – Learning to read at home

Parents films

The films below show you how we teach children to read and write with Read Write Inc. Phonics.
The films will help you and your child practise together at home.

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Supporting at home

With Read, Write Inc we are using pure sounds, (‘m’ not’ muh’, ’s’ not ‘suh’, etc) so that your child will be able to blend the sounds into words more easily.

 These first sounds should all be stretched slightly. Try to avoid saying uh after each one:  eg /mm/ not muh, /ss/ not suh, /ff/ not fuh.

m – mmmmmmountain (keep lips pressed together hard)

s – sssssnake (keep teeth together and hiss – unvoiced)

n – nnnnnnet (keep tongue behind teeth)

f – ffffflower (keep teeth on bottom lip and force air out sharply – unvoiced)

l – llllleg (keep pointed curled tongue behind teeth).

r – rrrrrrobot (say rrr as if you are growling)

v – vvvvvvulture (keep teeth on bottom lip and force air out gently)

z – zzzzzzig zzzzzag (keep teeth together and make a buzzing sound)

th – thhhhank you ( stick out tongue and breathe out sharply)

sh – shhhh (make a shhh noise as though you are telling somebody to be quiet!)

ng – thinnnnngg on a strinnnngg (curl your tongue at the back of your throat)

nk – I think I stink (make a piggy oink noise without the oi! nk nk nk)

These next sounds cannot be stretched. Make the sound as short as possible avoiding uh at the end of the sound:

t – (tick tongue behind the teeth – unvoiced)

p – (make distinctive p with lips – unvoiced)

k – (make sharp click at back of throat)

c – as above

h – (say h as you breathe sharply out – unvoiced)

ch – (make a short sneezing sound)

x – (say a sharp c and add s – unvoiced) 

You will find it harder to avoid saying uh at the end of these sounds.

d – (tap tongue behind the teeth).

g – (make soft sound in throat).

b –(make a short, strong b with lips).

j – (push lips forward).

y – (keep edges of tongue against teeth).

w – (keep lips tightly pursed).

qu – (keep lips pursed as you say cw – unvoiced).

The short vowels should be kept short and sharp:

a: a-a-a (open mouth wide as if to take a bite of an apple).

e: e-e-e (release mouth slightly from a position).

With your support we are getting back to the rhythm of school life and moving on with teaching and learning. Many parents and children were able to engage with school during Lockdown and used the wide variety of learning resources such as See Saw App, through Education City, HWB, Twinkl and Oxford Reading Buddies. Thank you for supporting your child’s home learning.

 

Where are we at?

We are just ending our assessment period for the whole school. The results this year are different than previous years, we are all playing catch- up despite everyone’s best efforts.

 

Please work with your child to work on whole class targets:

Following on from initial teacher assessments, please work on the Language, literacy and communication targets below:

 

PHONICS- recognising the sound of a letter

To recognise, write and sound-out the following letter sounds of the alphabet. Remember to use that sound not the name of the letter. This will give your child the building blocks to move on to blending letters together.

 

In school we are working on revisiting these letter sounds, however, we need your help to play catch up. In normal circumstances we would expect most of Reception children to know most of the sounds of the letters in the alphabet.  This year many of the children have forgotten more than half of the letter sounds. Please could you practise letter sounds with your child and link objects to these sounds eg. b, b, b ball.

 

At home: How to pronounce the letter sound

Quick refresher course! As with Jolly Phonics, we do not teach the letter name, we teach the letter sound. To see and hear this in action please

Visit Oxford Owl

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/learn-to-read-phonics/

    

World Book Day Visiting Reader Mr Blades, Head of PE  Saint Joseph’s Comprehensive.