Year 1 Reading at Home

Your child is learning to read with Read Write Inc. Phonics, 

a very popular and successful literacy programme.

Your child will learn to read in a very simple way. He or she will learn to:

1.   Read letters by their ‘sounds’

2.  Blend these sounds into words c-a-t cat

3.   Read the words in a story.

First, your child will learn to read:

Set 1 Sounds

Sounds written with one letter: m a s d t i n p g o c k u b f e l h r j v y w z x and sounds written with two letters •  (Your child will call these ‘special friends’): sh th ch qu ng nk ck

Words containing these sounds, by sound-blending, e.g. m–a–t mat, c–a–t cat, · Blending Books and Red, Green and Purple Storybooks.

Set 2  Sounds

Sounds: ay ee igh ow oo oo ar or air ir ou oy

Words containing these sounds · Pink, Orange and Yellow Storybooks.

Set 3 Sounds

Sounds ea oi a-e i-e o-e u-e aw are ur er ow ai oa ew ire ear ure ·

Words containing these sounds · Blue and Grey Storybooks.

We have a storytime every day at school so children develop a love of stories.

 We hope that you will do the same by reading a bedtime story to your child every night. 

We have wonderful books in school for you to borrow and access to our online library too.

Oxford Owl ebooks

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