Lesley Clarke Synthetic Phonics - Helping Your Child to Read and Write Tricky Words in Y1 Autumn Term: 2nd Half

Helping Your Child to Read and Write Tricky Words in Y1 Autumn Term: 2nd Half

YYour child's school should let you know which tricky words your child is learning to read and write. However, if you haven't received this information, this section of the website should give you a useful guide (although words do vary according to the phonics programme used by each school). Your child may also be working at a faster/slower pace than that indicated so pick the section that is appropriate for his/her needs by moving forwards or backwards a term at a time:

Lesley's Activities:

Letters and Sounds Phase 5b: Reading Tricky Words - Feeding Time For Seal

20th January 2021

This game will help children learn to read the Phase 5b Tricky Words.

Letters and Sounds Phase 5b: Reading Tricky Words - Magical Multi Coloured Tea

20th January 2021

This activity will help children read Phase 5b tricky words.

Letters and Sounds Phase 5b: What's My Word

29th January 2021

Children have to answer questions to help work out which tricky word is displayed on the hat.

Activities on Other Websites:

Reading:

water, where, who, again, thought, through, work, mouse, many, laughed, because, different, any, eyes, friends, once, please

'Who' Song

A YouTube video your child can sing and move to. Useful for learning to read this tricky word.

Play the video

Writing:

little, one, do, when, out, what

'Do' Song

A YouTube video your child can sing and move to. Useful for learning to write this tricky word.

Play the video

'Out' Song

A YouTube video your child can sing and move to. Useful for learning to write this tricky word.

Play the video

Also use the writing activities at the bottom of this page.

Writing activities for any of the above words:

Magnetic Letters

A whiteboard with letters of the alphabet along the bottom. Call out a tricky word your child needs to practise writing. Then he/she clicks on the letters to make the word appear on the whiteboard.

Play

Foam Phonemes

From ictgames.com. A set of single letter graphemes and digraphs which, when pressed, are fired from a cannon (just ignore the graphemes that haven't been introduced at this stage). They can then be dragged onto the water to make tricky words (this will mostly involve using the letters on the left hand side, as if they were magnetic letters).

Play

Writing Trays

Below are links to a variety of creative trays you can make and use with your child to help him/her learn to write tricky words. Select one that links to your child's interests or the current time of year, as this should motivate him/her to write. Call out a tricky word your child needs to practise and ask him/her to write it in the tray.

How to make lavender and glitter salt for a writing tray

Use the writing activities at the bottom of this page.