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These short videos will make sure you and your child have success in week 1

Watch these videos before your first session with your child.

The videos are a quick run down of the activities we will do each week to teach your child to read. 

Don’t worry you don’t have to master the activity as I will be there each week to teach.  This is just so you know what to expect.

Let's Get Reading.  This is your first lesson of week 1.  Make sure you have left an hour for you and your child to work together.  The lesson is set up so that you and your child can watch the video where I will make the explicit instruction easy and then you can hit pause and do the activity with the resources that arrived in your kit.  Check the level on the front of your book as there are two levels 2A and 2B.  Choose the video that matches your book.

You have mastered sh for ship so let’s start ch for chick. Remember the first lesson is your long lesson. Make sure you have an hour to work through the activities. Daily practice will only take you 30 minutes.

Four weeks in and I am sure it is getting easier and easier. Consistency is key so stick to the routine and make sure you do the daily practice.

This week we are starting split digraphs.  What is a spilt digraph? 

Remember a digraph is when we have two letters making a new sound like th, t and h make seperate sounds on their own but when they come together they make th in three.

A split digraph is when our two letters making the new sound has another letter in between, to be precise a consonant like in cake we have k between the a and the e.

Our saying to help remember this one is magic e makes a say ay.  In the video I explain that e is magic it gives all its power to a to make it say ay and then it is silent.

Happy Reading!

Lets build on our knowledge from last week and use our magic again.  This time our magic e is going to make i into ie!

Our last magic e sound.

You have been amazing doing all the magic e sounds so let’s get this done.

Time to take a break from split digraphs. Let’s do oo in moon.

Everybody knows ing but ing is not a grapheme it is a spelling rule. We often add it to the end of verbs and many of you would have heard of “e goes away when ing comes to stay.” The actual rule is e goes away when ing comes to stay or any other suffix that starts with a vowel but more about that latter.

So back to ng, n and g make ng in ring. We also find it with other vowels like in song, bang and lung.  This is why we need to ng without the I turning it into ing.

This week we are doing er in flower.

Watch out for lazy pronunciation. People like to say flowu rather than flower and it makes it hard to spell.

See you in the next video.

Tracey

Time to start ck in duck.

This can be tricky as we write the c sound three ways, c, k and ck.

Make sure you check out the first short video that gives you a little rule to know when to use ck.

This is our first trigraph.

Tri means three.

This week three letters make our sound.

Did you. Know that y is the only letter that can be a vowel and a consonant!

I know crazy hey. 

A lot of people don’t realise that when y is at the start of a word it makes it’s consonant sound like in yes or yellow.

When it’s anywhere else in the word it makes a vowel sound like in sunny.

Time to learn ar in car.

English is a hard language.

One of the things that make it hard is that we have more than one way to write a sound.

This week we are going to learn a new way to write the oa sound.

You have already learnt oa in o-e, now you are going to learn oa in boat.

Another sound that we write two different ways.

You already know a-e in cake.

Let’s learn ay in tray.

Wow!  Look how many digraphs you have learnt already.  

This is your 17th digraph that you are about to master!

Let's jump in and learn ow in cow.

Sometimes in English we have more than one way to write a sound. 

Ir is one of those sounds.

You already know er in flower.

Now to learn ir in girl.

It’s time for our second sound of ee.

We know ee in tree now we are doing ea in leaf.

Let's learn our second way to make the ai sound.

We are on the home run after this week we only 9 weeks to go.

Jump in and learn oy in boy.

Time to learn or in fork!

Wow you know er in flower and ir in girl.

Now you are going to learn ur in church.

Watch out for my picture and sentence that helps you remember the three ways to write the ur sound.

Ok. I am just going to say it.

I love oi.

Why?

There are only two ways to write the oi sound and a great rule to know when to use which one.

Oy for boy is at the end of a word or the end of a root word.

We have already learnt ow in cow, now lets learn ou in house.

Yes the cow is in the house!

You know or in fork.  Let's learn aw in paw!

Wow! 

Our third way to make the ow sound.  

At the start of the video I give you a little strategy for remembering the three sounds.

Jump in and start.

Wow!

Look how many digraphs you know now!

Let’s learn the second sound for oo.

Remember y is the only letter that can be a vowel and a consonant!

We know it makes ee in sunny at the end of the word.

Let’s learn how it makes i in sky.

Congratulations! 

You are up to your last unit in the book.

You are a total super star.

Jump in and get started.

One week to go.