Language
Language
Early Reading for EYFS
The websites below are really useful to help your child practise their phonics in a fun and engaging way.
Phonics Play also has lots of great games your child will enjoy playing to practise their phonic sounds and we use these in school. Choose Phase 2 games
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2.
The children love to watch Geraldine Giraffe on You Tube she introduces each letter to the children. Type Geraldine Giraffe into the You Tube search along with the letter you would like to focus on. Below is an example, follow the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmlzzMTqBxo
This link has videos for parents explaining about how letters and sounds is taught in school, how to say the letter sounds and information about learning the tricky words with your child.
Letters and Sounds for Home and School
The Oxford owl website gives access to parents for the reading scheme we use online, and you can access these at home as ebooks.
Oxford Owl
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ .
Once you have registered return to the home page. Start with Lilac level these books have no words this is to encourage the children to talk about the story and make up their own story using the pictures. This is a vital first step in understanding stories.
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Some of them have additional activities you can do but don’t try to do them all in one go!!!!
If you feel your child is ready to attempt some simple sentence reading have a look at the pink level books. These books introduce simple high frequency words such as the, to, a. They also introduce words which can be sounded out and words which can be worked out using the first letter sound and the picture. Pictures help a lot when first beginning to read with your child so make sure you talk about what your child can see on the page before they attempt to read.
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You can also choose some books which are phonic based
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