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Phonics

MONDAY

Go through the phonemes learnt so far. Practise the ones that your child is not so sure of. Practise writing the high frequency words learnt so far.

Watch Geraldine teach ure.  Find the Bug Club lesson ure.  As well as reading and writing the words in the Bug Club lesson, practise reading the words sure, pure, cure, insure, secure & manure and spelling the words pure, cure, secure & manure. 

Read the sentence: The farm has manure.

TUESDAY

Go through the phonemes learnt so far. Practise the ones that your child is not so sure of. Read through all the high frequency words learnt so far. Practise the words that your child is not so sure of.

We are going to teach the children when to use k or ck at the end of a word.  Of course with all rules there are some exceptions. 

Tell your child that many words have the k sound at the end of a word but in English it is rarely spelt with the letter c. To find out whether to use a k or ck they need to remember the rule about which vowel/letter combinations are being used. If there is a short vowel sound (or a vowel on its own before the k sound) then they must use the ck spelling. If there is a longer vowel sound (e.g. digraphs) or a short vowel then a consonant before the k sound they usually use the letter k.

Read the following words: park, duck, leek, took & tank.

Spell the words pork, soak, back, spook, bonk & think.

Write the sentence: I went back to see the tank.

WEDNEDSAY

Go through the phonemes learnt so far. Practise the ones that your child is not so sure of. Read through all the high frequency words learnt so far. Practise the words that your child is not so sure of.

Practise spelling the words pork, soak, back, spook, bonk & think

Sort the pictures from the sheet into those that end into those that end in ck and k: park, duck, tank, bank, book & tick.

Practise spelling the words tanker, parking, bookish, tuck-shop, ticket.

Read the sentences in the following story: ‘In the woods.’ Encourage your child to stop at the full stops. Point out to them that there is a capital letter at the start of the next sentence.

THURSDAY

Go through the phonemes learnt so far. Practise the ones that your child is not so sure of. Practise spelling all the high frequency words learnt so far. Practise spelling the words that your child is not so sure of.

Today we are learning to read two syllable words.  We do this by reading the first syllable and then the second. For example in the word toothbrush, we would segment the phonemes in the first syllable first e.g. “t-oo-th” then we would segment (sound out) the second part of the syllable, “b-r-u-sh”.

Practise reading the words toothbrush, armchair, rocker, boxer, lighter, bedroom, waitress, raindrop, weeping, parking & poison.

Here I have put the marker // to show the parts of the word:

tooth//brush, arm//chair, rock//er, box//er, light//er, bed//room, wait//ress, rain//drop, weep//ing, park//ing & poi//son

Play buried treasure on phonics play and enter your own words…

Real words: hammer, bedroom, weeping, raindrop & rocker

Nonsense words: lutter, bitmun, corpork, barteep & stooplod

On phonics play, play the sentence substitution game using the sentence, ‘Mark fed the cat/dog/hid/Gail/moon.’

FRIDAY

Go through the phonemes learnt so far. Practise the ones that your child is not so sure of. Read through all the high frequency words learnt so far. Practise the words that your child is not so sure of.

Practise reading looking, powder, thicker, singer & farmyard.

Practise spelling lightning, orchard, waiter & waiting.

Go on phonics play and play the substitution game using the sentence, ‘The sheep are in the shed/bedroom/farmyard/cards/wait.’