What words are you reception children being sent home with?

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There seem to be such a a variation between schools, so was just interested in what is in your word box!

in, at, it, and, no , go, the, to.

He's had them for ages and can obviously blend now. No book except bloody non-word ones.

After Christmas I am going to give him some more words so he can practise his newfound blending skill. He is thoroughly bored with these words now he has had them ten weeks - and we've played every game I can think of with them (and that's a fair amount - I am a Literacy co-ordinator!). Am getting a bit tbh.

still on single letters

don't have, they are still working through the phonemes.

At dd's school it is entirely dependent on the child as far as I can tell so everything from single letters to practise their phonic sounds to the so called 'key words' for reception children to reading books for those that are ready for them.

none for ds yet?! not sure if I should be worried now

I can help you we home come Digger Dad where is it not no yes look here in my stop

we've had so far, No, me, go, I, to
thats it.
I wouldn't worry, If they dont send them home they'll certainly be covering them in school!

DD has some words in her reading packet thing but she can read pretty well already and the books she gets are the right level for her so I'm not concerned which words are coming home.

Off not got, can't remember rest off top of my head. We have word books ie I go to the beach. I fly a kite and so on.

None. Ds brings a reading book home everynight but nothing else.

DS1 was sent home with the Reception key words from the beginning of term in individual sheets with between 6 and 9 words per sheet. Once they can read back the ones they've been given they're given the next sheet. Some children are still on the first sheets, others are further ahead - just depends on the child's individual development. Once they've mastered all of those and can start to write them then they're started on KS1 words.

We're on list 8 or 9 - it's cat, hen, hat, can, neck.

No reading books yet. My DTDs don't have any problems reading the words. It seems to be changed every so often, depending on what else they're up to - we've had the same list for about a fortnight, as they've been doing lots of Christmassy things.

No words, but lots of reading books.

Feenie, why hasn't he got a book?

All the children got word games supposedly until they had/have a bank of words. There seemed to be quite a lot of repeats in the games too, words like, mum, dad, the, and, dog, cat, I, etc. Not sure whether dd is "too shy" to read at school, but it wasn't picked up that she could read these words and err several more so we had to ask for a reading book with words.

A couple of parents have said their child can read the words they have been given really well, and a friend with dc in older year group also said she got no word books when she could read at home.

All the reception children got magnetic words from santa this week though.

My son's school follows the phonics program so we have done the whole "a a ants on my arm" singing and tracing the letters.

They have sent home "tricky" non-phonic words such as said, the, me, he, my.

And now, to do over the holidays (but we have already finished it, ds2 is a second child so has picked up a lot from his older brother) they sent home a massive list of words to see if they can blend them and we tick them if they can such as

mess, mass, fin, fan, lick, luck, his, hiss, mum, dad, dog, did, etc and then all the way through to carrot and ticket!!!

Then the next sheet was them trying to blend the sound in their head and say the word out loud, example is "the egg is in the egg cup" or "the dog digs in the dirt"

Then the final sheet was CVC spellings, so it showed a picture of a cat and the child has to write "cat" the others were hen, bin, six.

This is a state primary, it is outstanding on Ofsted and it strives to be amazing not just on paper but wants every child to excel and provides lots of extra support staff and experiences (I volunteer in the school so see it first hand) We have a lot of TA's and parent volunteers (who attend a course and take a test at the end!)

I know that not every child will be able to complete the sheets, it just gives the school a more rounded idea of where the child is up to.

We started on just picture books, then ones with 3 or 4 word sentences. They do guided reading in the school in small groups so each child reads a little bit of the book and then they talk about the story, what do they think will happen/why did that happen etc.

camp, stamp, away, love, like, I miss, duck, and similar.

She is moving schools in January so will be interesting to see how they teach reading.

Weird that lots of you have kids who can blend/ read but have not had books yet.

DD1 is bringing home reading books but they are no more challenging than some of the word lists people have mentioned - but she is very motivated by being given an actual reading book.

Sorry forgot to sya that she got 2 books a night to read,

DS gets 2 books and they are changed on a Mon, Wed and Fri, so 6 books a week.
We recently got some words which the teacher said was to prepare him for the next set of books:
In in Look look it in yes no Here here not

words we've had I, no, go, the and me.
We've also had really odd books, most of the words can't be sounded out phonetically so he just guesses them from the pictures. We've done some blending at home and I've bought some books like fat cat on the mat.

DS has had sets of six words which he's been tested on and then given the next set when he knows those. He's now on the last set which covers all the 45 high frequency words they should know by the end of reception. He has one book at a time and changes it 2 or 3 times a week.

Needs to work on his blending though, he has a visual memory so has learnt the words more that way than being able to read them from scratch. Fizzy's homework sounds good...

Once the first 5 or 6 phonemes are taught children should be learning to blend (the type of words Feenie mentioned) with just s,a,t, i, p, n you can read
an, in, at, as, it, is, sit, sat, tip, tap, tin, tan, pin, pan , past, pants, ant, Santa and I would expect schools to be teaching these and the "tricky words" not the old 45 reception sight words.

Curlybrunette so you have Ginn 360

I think some schools delay sending books if they don't have suitable schemes for early readers. Teaching children the skills to decode words then giving them Look & Say books can be counterproductive.

I know his school have Rigby Star, so a bit to be still getting non-word books.

I'm not a fan of wordless books unless the child has language delay and really don't know why some schools delay giving books when children are clearly ready just as I don't understand why some rush into giving books that children can't begin to read.