Struggling a little with DD's reading. She's just 4 (aug birthday) and loving learning new things and loving school.AT parents evening her teacher was full of how well she's doing and how well her reading is coming on. I bloody hate the stupid Biff, Chip, Kipper books but am plugging along (much preferred "Tom's mad mop" from bookstart....
Her book for half term is called "Look at me" and she read it all with no prompting the first try so we've been playing around with me reading her stories and picking simple words/sentences for her to try.
How do you explain that was is "woz" not "wass"?
Also I've seen stuff on here about "magic e" or calling it "split digraph" - no idea how I ever learned to read as know I could do it well before school no thought we ever had that stuff in my education.... Am I right in thinking you say (as per alphablocks) that the e at the end of the word makes the vowel say its name not its sound?
With respect to the whole accent thing how do we explain how to read "bath" and "grass"? In the midlands, I suspect her friends with say bath/grass where I'm originally RP southern and my family all say "grarse" and "barth" (I say either interchangably according to what others around me are saying)
Last one, do they just sound out and then modify the "oo" sounds
eg look, book, took
good, hood,have a different "oo" sound to blood