Room 1

Phonological awareness

Word awareness

Help your child to count the sentences in their nursery rhyme or poem. Help your child to count the words in their nursery rhyme or poem by picking a line and repeating it slowly and encouraging them to count each word that they hear on their fingers.

Who lives on Drury Lane.

2. Syllables

Help your child to count the number of syllables within a word by clapping each beat. Syllables usually follow a vowel rule.

Whereby the number of vowels a, e, i, o, u in a word match the syllables.

The number of vowel pairs ai, ee, ie, ou, ue etc. in a word match the syllables.

Muffin Muffin Muf-fin

The word “muffin” has 2 syllables in it or is made up of 2 syllables.

Egg Hotdog Potato Cauliflower

Egg Hot-dog Po-ta-to Cau-li-flow-er

1 2 3 4

Heart word activities

Heart words or sight words include those words found most frequently within our reading and writing. The majority of these cannot be decoded and should instead be memorised or learned by heart. Readers need to be able to recognise, read, and understand them almost immediately upon seeing them.

Below is a list of activities or exercises that can be used to practice the various flashcards

Word swat

A fly swatter, spade or even a wooden spoon could be used to “splat” or hit the heart word flashcards. You could say “Can you find, the word ‘we’ and your child would splat ‘we’ using a similar tool to those named above.

I spy

Make a tricky word hunt by sticking different heart words around a room and allowing your child to search and subsequently identify them as they spot them. Telescopes could be made using toilet rolls etc.

Prompts can also be provided such as “I spy a heart word beginning with ‘w'”.

Search for heart words within books or on the back of food packaging.

Sensory play

Different kinds of sensory play would allow for practise in both reading and writing heart words. Your child can practise copying or tracing different words into a sprinkling of flour, sand or rice.

Hopscotch

Using chalk to make a tricky word hopscotch could prove useful too whereby you write tricky words in each square instead of numbers. Your child could throw the stone, hop to that square and call out the heart word that they land on.

October 18th links

Go Noodle – Raise the Roof

Quizlet file – An teach

Wellbeing video – ‘A little spot of anger’