Phonics
Phonics Explained
Phonics Activities
Handwriting & Fine Motor Activities
Reading Eggs
Reading Eggs is an online reading programme for children that all children at our school has access to. It is an interactive and personalised learning journey that will build on your child's reading skills at their own pace.
The children love using Reading Eggs in school and it would be great if you could support your child with it at home. If you don't have them already, please ask your child's class teacher for their login details.
Here are a couple of videos that will help to explain some of the features of Reading Eggs.
The children love using Reading Eggs in school and it would be great if you could support your child with it at home. If you don't have them already, please ask your child's class teacher for their login details.
Here are a couple of videos that will help to explain some of the features of Reading Eggs.
Reading Eggs 2.mp4
Phonics Words Explained
When you are searching for different phonics activities you may come across some of these words. We understand that these might be difficult to understand, so thought we'd do our best to try and explain them to you.
| Phoneme | This is a sound. A sound can be made up of one, two or three letters. The English language has 44 different sounds! |
| Grapheme | These are the letters and groups of letters that make up a sound. Sometimes one letter will represent a sound, but at other times more than one letter will represent a sound. |
| Digraph | A sound that is made up of two letters, e.g. sh. |
| Trigraph | A sound that is made up of three letters, e.g. igh. |
| Decode | This is working out what a word is, in many ways 'breaking the code'. To do this, children need to use a combination of skills and knowledge. |
| Blending | This is the skill of joining sounds together to read words. Children are taught to say the separate sounds in a word and to then blend them together to decode the word. |
| Split Digraph | A digraph that is split in two by other letters, e.g. the sound 'a' in take is represented by the split digraph a_e. |
| Segmenting | This is the opposite of blending. You take a whole word and separate it into it's individual sounds, e.g. cat: c - a - t. |