Can anyone recommend a full phonics package I can buy to use at home with my 6yo

[lucymaudmonty]

Ds2 is y1, he could go back next week but for various reasons I won't be sending him, however, he is behind with his reading, don't think he would have passed the screening test had it taken place and no where near where ds1 was at the same age.

School do set phonics work everyday but it seems a bit piecemeal to me, different videos here and there, he also does Lexia on the laptop and teach your monster to read app etc. I'm wondering f if there is some kid of whole shebang package I can buy to teach him myself preferably physical resources including books and flash cards etc rather than online. We have a house full of books and he loves stories but don't have too many that are fully decodable to him. The other reason I would prefer not online is because we only have 2 laptops and ds1 uses one for schoolwork and I use the other one to wfh. Any advice?

I dobt know exactly what bits you would need, but read write inc could be worth looking at.

We have the read write inc flash cards and they’ve been working well for us during lockdown

Letters and sounds website has the different phases of phonics work, p
Flashcarda on etc. Free so worth a look.

We use Reading Eggs -website, activity books, flash cards etc. Highly recommend.

You could buy a package but can just as easily get all of the phases free on twinkl to download

I bought and used the full Read Write Inc system and used if for both my dds as we lived abroad.

I used the speed sound chart, the flash cards, the reading books and the exercise books they relate to each book.

It was very successful for me but you absolutely must be able to,say the sounds correctly yourself or it will do more harm than good.

Reading Eggs. My dc was really struggling with blending 3 letter words. 3 weeks with reading eggs, totally sorted.

Songbirds have some good resources. I used their books to teach my dc

I tried to buy some books and cds and they are good but I ended up printing off all the sounds and sounds families (With instruction on how it sounds) and anything you can’t phonetically say has to be learned the old fashioned way. Usual rules regarding magic e. Twinkl is free at the moment and I think I printed about 40 sheets. If he’s only year 1 I would just do the main sounds first get some oxford reading red coloured books and take it from there.

Look at reading chest. They post out books to you, you set the correct reading level which you can change at any time. You can also request a higher level book, maybe because of a particular interest or because you want to test out the higher level.We used these for DS from Spring term in reception. We read one book per day and posted them back in batches of three. We had the highest tier subscription.
The non fiction books help with general knowledge too as they cover such a wide range of topics. We will subscribe again for our twins when they start school in September.

Also look at fiction express - great as it tests for comprehension after each chapter. Ds is now 6 and enjoys the stories on fiction express. He read 5 chapters this morning before breakfast, completed the five x 10 question tests and wrote a brief review - so it must have been a good book!

Have you tried the phonics play website? My reception son loves the games on there.

RWI are also doing a YouTube lesson every day for each of the sets during lockdown (they only stay up for 24 hours) so that might be a help?)

It's worth finding out which system the school uses. They each teach it slightly differently and so it may hinder him if, for example, you spent the next few months learning Jolly Phonics but the school uses Read, Write inc.

Read write Inc is probably the simplest if you don't want something online. They've moved a lot of stuff available for free over lockdown, see home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/?utm_campaign=learninganywhere&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=read-write-inc&utm_team=pri .

You can buy the flashcards on Amazon. They do daily lessons on YouTube which DS gets on very well with, it means I have to supervise rather than teach.

There are a lot of the books available for free on Oxford Owl or you can buy them on Amazon / eBay if you want print copies. I've also bought one of the get writing books for DS at his current level which do seem to work for him as a reluctant writer.

The only downside is that the sounds are taught in a different order to Letters and Sounds so if it's harder to find extra worksheets on twinkl. It may also be a pain if your school has used Letters and Sounds so far and uses traditional book bands.

Great thank you i will have a look at all of these recommendations

Nessy is good but is not strictly synthetic phonics

Read Write Inc flash cards are lovely but they are colour coded and I realized my ds memorized the colour of the boarder as a clue. So m and n look similar, but he remembered that only m has a yellow boarder. Not helpful, as he couldn't recognize m in a book where it came up without the colour on the flash card. I therefore took to making my own simply white/black flash cards on the PC, based on the tables of letters and letter combinations from phonics phases 1-6 ( Google phonics phases and you'll get posters with all sounds coming up in images). You can combine it with phonic books from any reading scheme (e.g. Songbirds) to buy from Amazon or the book people. Print a list of the top 50, 100 and 200 high frequency sight-reading words to learn alongside of the phonics. It might help practicing writing the letters while saying the sound, so you can print and then laminate a letter forming worksheet (free to print off internet) and to use it with a whiteboard pen that can be wiped off.

That doesn't sound good with the flashcards @NellyBarney, I wonder if it was an older set? We have these ones www.amazon.co.uk/Read-Write-Inc-Speed-PHONICS/dp/019846035X/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=read+write+inc+phonics+flash+cards&sprefix=read+wri&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1591085295&sr=8-5 which don't have a coloured edge, just the letter on a white background.

If you decide to go with Letters and Sounds instead of RWI they have daily videos on YouTube too, look for 'Letters and Sounds'.

https://www.udemy.com/course/help-your-child-to-read-and-write/

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