Curriculum Newsletters - Year 1
Curriculum Newsletters - Reception
Reading
The children will take part in 3 guided-reading sessions a week focusing on decoding, prosody and comprehension. The book will be carefully matched to their phonic ability, ensuring that the book only contains that phonemes that your child knows. They will then bring this book home on a Friday along with a ‘Reading for Pleasure’ sharing book.
We would like the children to practice reading every night at home. It does not have to be the whole book but at least a couple of pages a night.
We ask that children bring back their phonic reading book and shared reading book every Friday so these can be changed. Please can you also sign the Reading Record book to show that you have read with your child.
Phonics Terminology
Grapheme – The letter or letter group which is the sound (phoneme) written down
Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound that can be identified in words
Blending – When reading a word, identify the graphemes in the word and say the corresponding sounds in order to hear the word as a whole. e.g. read cat c-a-t
Segmenting – When spelling a word, break it down into the sounds you hear and write the
grapheme for each identified sound. e.g. say shop = writing sh-o-p
Decode – Breaking a word down into sounds to be able to read it.
Encode – Breaking a word down into sounds to be able to spell it.
Digraph – When two letters make one sound when they are together. e.g. shop
Trigraph – When three letters make one sound when they are together. e.g. night
Tricky words – These are words that the children won’t have been taught to decode yet as they haven’t learnt the spelling rule. Therefore, they will be taught to read them by sight.