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DittiesGreen BooksPurple Books

DittiesGreen BooksPurple Books

Pink BooksOrange Books

Pink BooksOrange Books

Yellow BooksYellow Books

Blue BooksGrey BooksBlue BooksGrey Books

Fresh Start Introductory

Module

Fresh Start Introductory

Module

Modules 4 to 13Modules 4 to 13

Module 14 Module 14

Modules 15 to 33

Modules 15 to 33

Children practise and apply their phonic knowledge for decoding and encoding

Set 1 sounds+ blending

Set 1 and 2 sounds

Set 1 and 2 sounds andletter names

Set 1, 2 `nd 3 Sounds andLetter names

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If you can’t read and blend letters easily...

If you can’t read words easily… If you can’t read books easily … you will find it hard to understand what

they mean...

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Sounds

There are 44 sounds in the English language

X 44

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Graphemes A grapheme is a squiggle or mark that

tells us what sound to make – they are sounds written down

They are like a code – when we read words, we are working out the code

We use the code to read & to spell

Cracking the codeThe word cat has these graphemes (marks or

squiggles):

c a t

when we say them fast, we get:

c a t (we call this blending the sounds)

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Sounds, words & pictures

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When we read the word cat, we get a picture in our heads of a cat.

The word witch has these marks or squiggles:

w i tch

when we say them fast, we get: w i tch

the whole word is witch

Chart

We have a chart showing the most usual ways the 44 sounds can be written down

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There ar graphemes in a word

i-n contains 2 sounds and 2 graphemes c-a-t contains 3 sounds and 3 graphemes ch-a-t contains 3 sounds and 3 graphemes l-igh-t contains 3 sounds and 3 graphemes c-r-a-sh contains 4 sounds and 4 graphemes

Learning to crack the code Children have to learn the “secret code”

so that they can read any word we teach them how to say the 44 sounds we teach them what the sound looks like

when it is written down we teach them how to blend the sounds to

make a word we teach them to read & spell words using

the code

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Fred... We use a creature called Fred to help

the children to learn to read...

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Fred can only talk in sounds...

(Fred can only say c, a, t, he can’t say cat)

We call this Fred Talk

Fred... We use Fred to help the children to

learn to spell as well...

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Children put sounds they hear in a word on their fingers...

We call this Fred Fingers

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Pure sounds

It is easier to blend c/ a/ t/ than cuh/ a/ tuh

This is blending using pure sounds

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Fred Talk at home Try saying some of these everyday words in ‘Fred-talk’ at

home

back, head, tum, leg, hand, foot, knee coat, hat, scarf, zip, sock, gloverun, walk, skip, hop, fast, slow, stopred, blue, green, black,knife, fork, spoon, plate, bowl, panbread, cheese, meat, soup, jam, cake

How can you help your child?

By knowing the 44 sounds By using the Speed Sound cards with your child By knowing how to blend using Fred Talk By knowing how to do Fred Fingers for spelling By using Fred Talk sometimes at home By sharing stories & asking lots of questions

about the story By talking to your child as much as possible By praising your child!

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