Foundation vs key stage 1 vs reception

[WiganKebab]

Can any of the pros help? What is the definition of 'foundation stage'? Is is reception plus year 1? And same question re key stage 1?

Foundation is nursery & reception.
KS1 is years 1&2.
KS2 is years 3-6.

Reception is sometimes called Foundation2 ( as Nursery is Foundation1!!)

Ok, so I have a list from school of 100 high frequency words that the child is supposed to know by end of 'foundation'. However, on looking up flashcards on amazon etc, they seem to describe the child needing to know the first 45 words by the end of 'reception' (which sounds like same timeframe, but different number of words: 100 vs 45). Does anyone know the guidelines for this?

The 45 HFW were from the old National literacy strategy that was scrapped in 2007.
The 100 HFW are from Letters & Sounds and should be taught with phonics not flash cards

If this is a mum doing the teaching even if she knows phonics (does this mum?) she's still going to have trouble with the tricky bits.

So now I'm extra confused as not all the 100 words can be sounded out with phonics, eg the, Mr etc?

Yes. That's the problem, I'm afraid. Some "words" you just have to know. Mr, Miss and Mrs aren't really words they're abbreviations.

Tbh, I wouldn't worry too much about those 100 words, I certainly wouldn't teach them with flashcards etc. The vast majority can be sounded out phonetically. (Some of them requiring more 'advanced' phonic knowledge, obviously e.g. 'like' is easy once you have learned 'i_e'). The few that are tricky even with a very good grasp of phonics can be learned as and when the children meet them in their reading.

Mr and Mrs are abbreviations so need to be learnt as such

Procedure
Explain that there are some words which have one or sometimes two tricky
letters in them.
Sound-talk the word, and repeat, putting sound lines and buttons under each sound and blending them to read the word.
Discuss the tricky bit of the word where the letters do not correspond to the
sounds the children know (e.g. in he, the last letter does not represent the same sound as the children know in hen).

My daughter just recognises the words he and she

But they do follow the same pattern as be, we and me. She hasn't learned them as a group though. She just recognises them individually.

Some words they just need to know by sight like Mr, Mrs, Dr etc (yes they are all abbreviations ).

Miss can be sounded out easily m i ss

Tbh if you read regularly to your child and if they can read listen to them then they should pick it up (hopefully).

DD's school send home lists of tricky words for them to read/spell

(DD is in reception btw).

In telling time AM and PM are abbreviations, but who uses the proper forms nowadays? We don't even use the term afore any more. Are some abbreviations as good as words?

I don't think many people regularly use ante meridiem and post meridiem

Well in DD's school reading book (that we only bothered with this eve ) it had "a whale shark can grow up to 12 m long"

I had to tell her that the m was short for metres obviously...

AM is short for ante meridian - so not sure where afore comes in?

The difference between am / pm and 'Mr' is that for am we read the abbreviation 'ay em', whereas for Mr we always read the underlying word 'Mister'.

Isn't there a bigger difference than that? Even if we said ante meridian each time we still wouldn't necessarily know what it means whereas we'd know that Mr is a title for a man and Mrs is a title for a woman. (Miss, maybe we'd have to have explained and Master.)

ante meridiem is Latin for before noon

Mrs is the abbreviation for Mistress (which is why there is a in there) but we say "missus"

And anti meridian is an adjective meaning relating to that which happens before noon.

a.m. is the abbreviation for ante meridiem

Thanks all, slightly clearer now!

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