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Reception: Spring Term
- Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words with 2-3 Sounds, Containing Vowel Digraphs eg ai
Helping Your Child to Read and Write Words with 2-3 Sounds, Containing Vowel Digraphs eg ai
Lesley's Activities:
Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Week 5: Crazy Toy Taxis: 'oo'
Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Week 6: Feed The Hippos 'oi' & 'ow'
Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Week 6: Door Entry Codes: or & ur
Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Week 7: Hanging Out The Washing
Activities on Other Websites:
Buried Treasure (Reading)
Free printable golden coin, dustbin and treasure chest for playing Buried Treasure. Laminate the coins, write a word on each containing a vowel digraph your child needs to practise (some should be real words and some nonsense). Bury them in the garden/sand pit etc. When your child pulls one out, get him/her to sound out and read the word. If it's a real word, he/she puts it on the treasure box and if it's nonsense, puts it on the dustbin.
Below is a link to an interactive version of the Buried Treasure activity. Click on 'next', then Phase 3, then click on one of the vowel digraphs at the bottom of the screen. The words used in the game will alll contain the grapheme you have chosen. Ensure that your child sounds out and reads each word, rather than just dragging the words to the bin/treasure chest to see what happens!
Dragon's Den (Reading)
An interactive game in which you have to feed eggs with real words to one dragon and eggs with nonsense words to the other dragon. Click on 'next', then Phase 3, then click on one of the vowel digraphs at the bottom of the screen. The words used in the game will alll contain the grapheme you have chosen. Ensure that your child sounds out and reads each word, rather than just dragging the words to a dragon to see what happens!
Click below to download free printable egg, red dragon and green dragon from the above interactive game. Laminate the eggs, write a word containing containing a vowel digraph your child needs to practise on each (some should be real words and some nonsense). Hide them around the room/garden. When your child finds one, get him/her to sound out and read the word. If it's a real word, he/she puts it on the green dragon and if it's nonsense, puts it on the red one.
Picnic on Pluto (Reading)
An interactive game in which you have to feed snacks to 2 alien brothers. One alien likes to eat snacks with real words on them and the other likes to eat snacks with nonsense words on them. Click on 'next', then Phase 3, then click on one of the vowel digraphs at the bottom of the screen. The words used in the game will alll contain the grapheme you have chosen. Ensure that your child sounds out and reads each word, rather than just dragging the words to an alien to see what happens!
Click below to download free printable snack and the 2 aliens from the above interactive game. Laminate the snacks, write a word on each containing containing a vowel digraph your child needs to practise(some should be real words and some nonsense). Hide them around the room/garden. When your child finds one, get him/her to sound out and read the word. If it's a real word, he/she puts it on Bob and if it's nonsense, puts it on Obb. .
Pick a Picture (Reading)
Click Next, then Phase 3 digraphs. Get your child to sound out the word on the left and choose the corresponding picture from a set of 4.
Letters and Sounds Bingo (Reading)
From ictgames.com. Click on the dark blue '3' tab and select the graphemes you want to include in the game. Follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen. Get your child to sound out and read the word on the screen before everyone looks for it on their boards.
NB: There are issues with some of the words in the following games, so they are best avoided: ow, ure. The 'oi' words are listed under the 'ow' button and vice versa.
Picture Matching Cards (Reading)
Sets of pictures with matching words cards (1 of the set deals specifically with sh, ch, th, ng). Print out the sheets and cut into individual word and picture cards.Get your child to sound out each word and find the matching picture.
Using 'ck' or 'k' (Writing)
A You Tube video explaining when to use 'ck' or 'k' at the ends of words. Children need to know this from the time they start learning graphemes, such as 'ai', 'ee' etc. Not my preferred way of explaining the rule, but it is certainly a good option.
Magnetic Letters (Writing)
A whiteboard with letters of the alphabet along the bottom. Call out a word containing a grapheme your child needs to practise), get your child to break down (orally segment) the sounds on his/her fingers. Then he/she clicks on the corresponding letters to make the word appear on the whiteboard. Get him/her to sound out and read the word written to check it is correct and amend if necessary.
Foam Phonemes (Writing)
From ictgames.com. Call out a word containing 3 sounds and 3 letters and get your child to break down (orally segment) the sounds on his/her fingers. Then he/she clicks on the corresponding letters on the left of the screen to fire them out of the cannon and then re-arranges on the water to make the word. Get him/her to sound out and read the word written to check it is correct and amend if necessary.
Sentence Substitution
Interactive screens with the sentence substitutions from P104 of Letters and Sounds. Instructions for playing the game are on P86 of Letters and Sounds. NB: This is a phase 3 resource, even though the front screen says phase 2.