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How to support Y1 DS with phonics / reading?

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wanttomakeadifference · 06/09/2012 22:48

I would love some advice on how to support DS in reading and phonics.

He is in Y1, reading green level books. I seem to remember the 'basics' of phonics fairly well, so last year (YR) when he was learning sounds and blending I was able to help him in a way that was consistent (I hope), with what he was being taught at school.

Also in YR parents were kept abreast of what phase of phonics DC were covering, so I tended to google each stage which helped.

I'm getting stuck now though, as I don't really know what comes 'next', so it is becoming harder to support DS. He was asking me about 'magic e' this evening, and I was lost!

He reads to me each evening (usually whichever book he has been sent home with), and I read to him a lot too. I just feel I'm a bit lost as to the nuts and bolts of the next stage.

His objectives for this half term in literacy are to write using punctuation- so that's not particularly helpful at pointing me in the right direction when it comes to reading....

Any help, links etc would be gratefully received.

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MoaningMingeWhingesAgain · 06/09/2012 23:23

Just marking my place, as DD started yr1 this week too.

I am just relieved to see she hasn't forgotten how to read over the holidays Blush

survivingsummer · 07/09/2012 13:51

Have you see this site? jollylearning.co.uk/overview-about-jolly-phonics/

We also got some good phonics resources from school so they might have something about how they will be teaching literacy if you ask?

Your schools are much quicker off the mark than ours by the seems of it - we have no book level or reading book so far!

wanttomakeadifference · 07/09/2012 14:39

Thanks surviving, I will take a look at the links.

Our schools went back earlier than most, last Wednesday so that is perhaps why book levels etc have been sorted already...

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Ferguson · 07/09/2012 19:59

Hi

Don't let 'mrz' catch you talking about ' magic e ' !!! That was in the 'old' days; now I think it is a ' split digraph ' (which I'm sure helps you a lot. [sarcastic.] )

It is when an 'e' on the end of word is not, in itself, pronounced, but it changes the sound of a vowel in a word from it's 'normal' sound to the NAME of the letter ;

thus :

CAN CANE - MAN MANE - HOP HOPE - TRIP TRIPE etc.

Punctuation at this stage I would think will only be FULL STOP, maybe COMMA. 'Finger spaces' between words are highly desirable! Otherwise it all runs into a lotofgobbledygook! CAPITAL LETTER after a full stop is usually forgotten by kids in the early stages.

When reading to your child, may be point out punctuation, and it can often affect the emphasis on words in a sentence, but don't make too big a 'thing' out of it unless he seems interested.

( The 'classic' example is a super book by Lynne Truss, about a panda's diet :

" Eats, Shoots and Leaves. " - everything you could ever want to know about punctuation is in that little book! )

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