Welcome to our virtual guide to phonics (the sounds that letters make) and early reading!
We hope your child has had a great start to reading at Abbey, both enjoying books, being read to and the excitement of reading independently using their early reading skills. We really want to work together and reading at home can make such a difference! We ask you to spend ten minutes, each evening to help them build their speed, fluency and love of reading.
We've drawn together some resources to help you get to grips with our approach to the teaching of reading. Here's a guide to what it's all about!
Get a definition of phonics and understand the key aspects of learning to read using phonics. Learn more about key terms such as 'phonemes', 'blending' and 'segmenting'
Learn how to pronounce all 44 phonics sounds, or phonemes, used in the English language with these helpful examples from Suzy Ditchburn and her daughter.Find...
Abbey starts with S A T P I N - here's the first six sounds your children learn at school.
Watch UK school teacher Mr Thorne and Youtube sensation Geraldine the Giraffe take you on a learning journey through the world of phonics, grammar, spelling ...
Watch UK school teacher Mr Thorne and Youtube sensation Geraldine the Giraffe take you on a learning journey through the world of phonics, grammar, spelling ...
Watch UK school teacher Mr Thorne and Youtube sensation Geraldine the Giraffe take you on a learning journey through the world of phonics, grammar, spelling ...
Watch UK school teacher Mr Thorne and Youtube sensation Geraldine the Giraffe take you on a learning journey through the world of phonics, grammar, spelling ...
Watch UK school teacher Mr Thorne and Youtube sensation Geraldine the Giraffe take you on a learning journey through the world of phonics, grammar, spelling ...
This video shows the style of lesson that children at Abbey experience to learn sounds and read. This is an example lesson and Abbey uses this approach and builds up to this style of lesson through the year.
Get top tips for developing phonics skills at home, advice on decoding and blending words, and how to make the phonics sounds correctly from phonics expert
Ruth Miskin. Abbey doesn't use Ruth Miskin's books but the approch to teaching is very similar.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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