preschool reading books

[shena1066]

hello mums

My 4.5 year old little girl moved from playgroup to preschool Sept 2014 2.5 days a week and has settled in really well and is very happy. She's recently been given some lovely reading books from the Phonics Bugs scheme, Sid Did It, Sid's Pit and Alphablocks In a Pit, which she is enjoying reading. She is learning the satpinmd phonics sounds too as part of these books.

I wondered if anyone else has used these books and if they found them helpful for their child's reading in the long term or any potential problems she may encounter using the phonics method. I've been teaching her some words/spellings at home but not by using the phonics as much as the preschool method so I don't want to confuse her.

Many thanks in advance

She's unlikely to encounter any specific issues learning to read using the synthetic phonics method that she wouldn't encounter with any other method.

In fact generally phonics teaching has far better outcomes than any other method, particularly "look and say".

Any difficulties tend to be centred around a poor memory for the letters and sounds. Your dd would be learning each sound in turn, then practising hearing the sounds in the words and learning the corresponding phoneme. So as long as she can remember each sound and phoneme she should be fine.

It's a bit early for her to be given books, but if she can decode the then I suppose why not? Can she read and understand the books?

Thank you for a prompt response.

She understands the books well, they have colourful pictures and we discuss these and what she thinks may happen next, what the characters are feeling etc.

I've always focussed more on the names of the letters with her but at preschool they just do the sound of the letter. I thought it would be best to do both name and sound when we read at home so that she can see the link and not forget the names.

She isn't showing signs of being overloaded with info so I'll keep going, preschool are really supportive with her.

Have a look on the jolly phonics website for an overview of how they teach the synthetic phonics programme in schools. Obviously there are other phonics available and each school might do it slightly differently.

Letter sounds are taught first, and then the names. The sounds are important for blending and decoding. Letter names can be confusing as you can't get the word from blending the letter names iyswim.

It's all taught quite differently these days!

If you want to help, go through the letter sounds with her until she can get the sound from the letter really quickly. The quicker she is at recognising the sound, the quicker she'll be at blending. Then use the letters she knows to put a few simple words together eg sat or pin, and practise sounding them out. It'll be more practice for her and will fit in with what the school is doing.

Thanks to the OP as I was looking for the similar topic.