Flashcards for Reception child

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DS is coming on so well with his words and letters we are so proud of him

I want to make him some flash cards so I can help him at home with his letters.

Does anyone know which sort I should make? Any teachers any ideas?

TIA

Which words to use onthem do you mean? If so, I'd go for the reception key words.

And do some letter flashcards, more than one of each. And some of the blends too. You can then make words to sound out with your child, and get them to think of a simple CC word to try and work out themselves.

Our school provided some, copied from the Jolly Phonics handbook I think. You can also them order online from Amazon, Jolly Learning or elc

These are the reception key words:

I
go
come
went
up
you
day
was
look
are
the
of
we
this
dog
me
like
going
big
she
and
they
my
see
on
away
mum
it
at
play
no
yes
for
a
dad
can
he
am
all
is
cat
get
said
to
in

Ds1 has just brought home his second set of words - things like said and she, which I'm guessing are the reception key words that hulababy refers to. Try asking the teacher if they have anything you can copy/borrow?

DD gets sent home oe or two new word each day, linked to the reading book she has at the time.

I'm thinking of the first set of these which contain the phonemes. Also you can get the Key words as magnets from places like Wilkinsons or bookshops or pots of magnetic letters from elc to spell/sound out on a board.

Hula - I think I'm going to try hothousing ds1 with that list of words! He 'knows' 18 of them so far, though I'm worried that he's just memorising which one starts with which letter - ie confusing said and she tonight! His teacher sends home a set of 10 words at a time, but they are unrelated to his books - he's just progressed from Biff and Chip (hurrah!) onto Rosie and Sam, so no words yet (well, just names)

I've had some from whsmiths with apple etc(and a pic of one on the reverse etc). think usborne do some too, and letterland?
This time, We've been sent home 2 identical printed sheets of 15 key words, in boxes, for us to cut up. The idea is to play snap, stick them on doors, play pairs etc, anything. When they know these 15, they get the next lot..

Thanks Hula for those words, I have cut and paste them to use.

Yes I was going to buy them but I really want to make sure I get them the same as the way he is learning at school. I think I will ask his teacher that would be the best bet.

Thanks again everyone

Must be pretty tough just having word lists with no book to back them up. DD has the old Peter and Jane scheme but, all though old fashioned, it is working! I am stunned to be honest just how quickly they pick it all up.

One thing you could do with the word lists he has so far - together write a little book (you can build it up the more words he learns). Have a sentence per page and get him to draw a relevant picture on each page.

Did that on holiday with DD and she enjoyed it. Things like "This is DD. DD can jump. DD likes to have fun." DD jumps into the water." - but tying in his word lists including the characters from the books he is reading as well.

DS has learned the word "g" by the sound gggggg of water going down a plughole.

He knows "a" by the sound aaaaaaaaaa and he points at his arm as if its hurt.

I know I am not explaining myself very well but does anyone else's child learn this way at school?

That sounds a bit like jolly phonics. I think, on the JP books, the action for "a" is to run your fingers up and down your arm like ants, "t" is to move head to side and side as if watching tennis, "r" is to pretned to be a dog with a rag in its mouth, etc.

Blimey Hula - is that Peter and Jane that I might have read in the 70's??? I think I still have one of those books somewhere! Great idea about the book, I think ds will really go for that.

Yes Hula I too am so pleased with DS' progress. He is one of the younger ones and I really didn't think he would like school because of the learning and not so much playing but he really loves school and loves learning and am so proud of him. DD is 6 and she has always had a natural ability to learn and could write her name in Nursery but DS is a boy and likes to play rather than sitting down.

I am so pleased with how far he has come on since starting school. Am looking forward to seeing his teacher this week at parents evening.

yes my son doing all these sounds. its because when you say 'b for balloon, you are actually making a 'bu' sound not the pure b!

Yes thats it Hula!!!!! He was saying "tttttt" and then saying "tennis".

The progress they have made is fab isn't it? We have parent's evening next week. Going to be very strange as it will be my first parent's evening ont he other side of the table!

jamiesamfreddie - yes, they most certainly would be! I had them when I was little. I didn't even know you could still buy them, but sure enough you can. DD is actually really enjoying them too.

my other son is in y2, and he never made all the sounds like they do now.

I am not a teacher, but I have used jolly phonics with my son. Its great that your son is doing so well. If you want to do extra work with your son it might help to get the "jolly phonics hand book". I believe that Tescos Online has a good price.

I would be wary of using flash cards as that might go against the method that your child's teacher is using to teach your child to read. My son's school only has flash cards for "tricky" words ie. those which cant be sounded out. For other words children are encouraged to blend. The beauty of learning to blend, compared with learning words as wholes is that the child learns to spell at the same time.

Andrew is being given lists of words by his teacher to practice blending not to learn. Not all the children in his class are given word boxes as the teacher want each child to be ready so they do not experience failure and get put off reading. I am sure that all the children will be reading be the end of the year. Some of the children in Andrew's class are very bright but they find blending hard for various reasons. For example one little boy has had very little exposure to English and his mother is struggling to help him at home because she can not read the homework instructions.

If your child is doing well at his letter sounds he will probably be given word boxes soon. It is just a matter of patience.

There are games like I-spy, or playing a game called "FredSpeak" where you say to the child "touch your l-e-g", "Where is a ch-ai-r". When modelling blending to your son it helps to say the first letter louder than the others and say the letters fairly quickly.

Hula I love the idea of the book about DD!

We have an almost complete set of Peter and Jane books (acquired from jumble sales) and DD in particular loves them. Even at the higher levels the words are quite simple so she can read a logn book without having lots of words she doesn't know.

(She's in YR 1 btw before you all get in a panic about my genius Reception child!

Thanks for that Frances, thats very good info.

Will speak to his tomorrow at parents evening and ask her what we can do to help him progress further.

I was really worried he wouldn't want to learn to read and write as his speech development was slow and at one point he had to various ear tests to make sure he wasn't deaf. He can talk the hind leg off a donkey now, it just all suddenly came together for him and this was around the time he started school too so I believe that full time school has been a really positive step for him.

I got some sponge letters for the bath and we have been sticking the week's high frequency (he gets 6 to learn each week) words up on the tiles, DS1 seems to enjoy this.

Where do you get them from ELC? He would love doing that in the bath actually.

ELC do have them, but mine came from the local pound shop. If you have babies don't let them have them though, as they will chew bits off (choking hazard)

Nope my youngest is 4. Will get some of those then.

Thanks.