Phonics and Reading with your Child

The process of learning to read starts at a very early age with listening to stories, songs and rhymes which many children do from when they are born. This develops their knowledge and understanding of language and word bank within their brains.

In Busy Bees we read multiple stories and rhymes throughout the day from rhyme/poem of the day in the morning to storytime at hometime as well as stories and information throughout the day. 

We have daily phonics, we apply our phonics for reading and spelling throughout the day , in our play and focus group learning.

The sounds we have been learning are always detailed on the homework. Attached is the Bug Club Phonics coverage across all GPC's. 

Reading Your Home Readers

Here is a quick guide to reading the home readers and questions and talking points. 

• Read the title together and look at the picture - What do you think it is about? What can you see?
• Look at the pictures on each page and talk about what is happening. This will give the children a general understanding of the story and words they might come across. 
• Look at each word and ask your child to say the letter sounds they can see. 
• Say the letter sounds more quickly - we use robot arms in class. 
• Push the letter sounds togther (blend them) to say the word. 
• Adult will need to help the child to blend as this is the stage and process we are learning at the moment.
• When blended repeat the word together. 
• Repeat the words already read in the sentence to help them remember what has already been read.

The aim is to enjoy reading the books together so do a few pages at a time. 

There are a couple of attachments and links which might also help. If you require any further guidance please don't hesitate to email me on [email protected]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/making-time-for-books-at-home

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

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