Help at Home

Reading

Reading Diary

Please record when your child reads at home in their reading diary. Please aim for at least 4 reads at home every week as reading as often as possible will really help with your child’s pace and fluency.

Little Wandle Phonics Reading Book

We read this book in school and then send it home once your child has read it with their teacher at least 2 times. We focus on decoding words on the first read, and then reading with expression and answering questions in the second read. Please continue to share this book at home to support these skills.

Oxford Reading Tree Book

This is an additional reading book for your child to read at home.

Maths

Numbots Game

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Phonics

Please watch these mini films to practice phonemes and digraphs which they have already learnt Phase 3 phonics – KS1 English – BBC Bitesize

Is Phonics new to you?

If you were not taught Phonics at school, but still want to help your child, visit the Little Wandle website:

For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)

Scroll down to watch these videos on the link above.

Tricky Words

It is helpful for children to be able to read tricky words that cannot be sounded out using Phonics because they have tricky parts in the word, such as the ‘a’ in ‘was’.

Please take a few minutes to practice 3 or 4 tricky words a week.  Your child needs to be able to read and write them. We have enclosed a document listing all the words they need to know with some guidance on how to practise.

Tricky Word Challenge