This is for you Mum and dad, maybe its Grandma and Grandpa.  These short videos will take through the program, why it works, what you need to get organised and make the program a success for your child.

Jump in and set yourself up for success.

Watch these videos before your first session with your child.

The videos are a quick run down of the activities you will do each week to help your child improve their decoding.

Each week I will guide you and your child through each unit.

Welcome to unit 2!

We have a new sound this week but our activities stay the same.  

Do you know what that means? 

Each week it will get easier and easier as you will always know what is coming.

Let’s jump in and do “the girl took a flower to the church.”

Week 3 here we come. 

This week we are doing ar in car and a in bath.

Make sure you watch the video about when a makes the ar sound.

See you in the video.

Tracey

Let’s jump in and learn the oa sounds.

This week we are learning the four most common ways to write the ee sound.

Pete in a tree with a leaf and a brief case.

I love oy and oi!

Do you know why?

Because it is one of the few digraphs that we can only write 2 ways and there is a rule that helps us to know which one goes where.

Let's jump in and learn about the oy sound.

Welcome to unit 7.

Guess what?

The cow is in the house!  It sounds like we are going to a rap concert but we are really learning the ow sound.

Hi 

The aw sound can be tricky because what we say does not match what we right.  So make sure you do lots of clapping and drawing.

Only two digraphs to learn this week.

Yah!

Let’s jump in and start oo in book and u in bush

Let’s learn how we make the sound of ie.

Keep an eye out for the rule that tells us when the letter i is saying i in kit or i in child.

It is time to learn the sounds of y. 

Did you know y is the only letter in the alphabet that can be a vowel and a consonant.

Watch the short intro video that explains it.

Welcome to unit 12.

We are often taught that g can make the j sound but we are not always taught the rule about when it makes it.

G makes j when it is followed by e, i and y.

Make sure you watch the first video about Gentle Cindy. She is a great little memory hook for this week and next weeks sound.

We are using Gentle Cindy again to help us with the s sound.

The great news is you will see a pattern ge, gi, gy and ce, ci, cy.

Same rule different sound.

Let’s jump in and work on ce, ci, cy.

Ok so brace yourself.  

This is the one I think is the most challenging.

Why?  Well it is the tricky code again.

We have 5 common ways to write the oo sound.  

You might want to take two weeks on this one.

Hi,

This week we have three more ways to write the u sound.

I love my country and bananas.

Tracey

We all know sh in ship.

It’s time to learn some more ways to make the sh sound.

Another one I love!

Why?

Guess?

Because there is only 3 ways to write and read the sound of f.
1. f in fish - you already know that one.
2. ph in phone - we will learn it today.
3. gh in laugh - we will learn it today.

Yah an easy sound!

There is a bear on the chair with a square.

The sound of air is tricky as we write it 4 ways and two of the ways we write it also make the sound for ear in spear.

Make sure you watch the video and remember my sentence about the bear.

Three sound but we write them all the same way.

Let’s jump in and see how ch works.

Remember these last units are the tricky part of learning our code.

You can take two weeks on each unit if you need.

You are far better off mastering it now over two weeks than having to revise it latter.

I plus a vowel helps explain lots of our unusual vowel combinations.

Jump in and learn all about the two sounds i plus a vowel makes.

Why is it that a can make the o sound?

Why can or say the er sound?

It is all to do with the w. That’s why this unit is called w plus.

Jump in and learn

Watch out this week as even though we are doing the ear sound, two of our combinations to write it also make the air sound.

Jump in and learn more.

Shhhhhhhh…………..these letters are silent.

It really is crazy that we put letters in a word that make no sound.

Let’s look at some of the words we use a lot that have silent letters.

Woohoo! 

Just one sound to work on this week, ea in head.

Ea in head is a little unusual because:

1. It also make ea in leaf
2. Two vowels are making a short vowel sound.  These two letters can make the short vowel sound in head and the long vowel sound in leaf.

We have a whole week to master it so don’t rush.

Let’s jump in and start.

Tracey

The last unit!

Congratulations.  You are awesome. 

Look at what you have achieved.  

Your consistency and hard work has really paid off.

This is the last unit and we are doing tricky words.

They are the words that break the rules we have learnt about digraphs.