Series created by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta Phonics Consultant: Debbie Hepplewhite How to use this book Once children have learnt all of the sounds in Stage 3 they can go on to read the Stage 3 Floppy's Phonics Fiction and Non-fiction. Say the sound. USING THIS BOOK TOGETHER: THIS BOOK INTRODUCES: @ Say the sound. OW csinowl © Ask your child to finger-trace the letter Oi osincitcan, Trace the letter shapes. group and say the sound. © Ask your child to point to the key picture BOP ts mae. and say the word, e.g. “ow as in owl”. Point to the picture and say the word. @ Ask your child to sound out and blend the list of words. @ Find all the words that include the focus sound in the picture. Some are labelled, Cee eee puke erent some are not. LABELS IN THE ILLUSTRATIONS Blend to read the list @ Talk about what is happening in the The labels show the focus letter group in picture, e.g. Who can you see? What are black. Encourage your child to listen for of words. they doing? How do you think they might the focus sound within the word as you be feeling? read the whole word to them. @ Ask your child to say the sounds at the bottom of the page as quickly as possible. emember to do the fun activ iad - letter-tracing, ties at the e Matching and reading! psss23rese&them? G&S -ng ai ee -igh oa -oo OO AF OF UF OW’ bres hai tomes A sige=) What other words can you find in the picture with the /oi/ sound in them? ar or ur ow oi 5=) What other words can you find in the picture with the /eer/ sound in them? Or UF OW OU CGP iter sscor)Gs ar -igh -ng ear -00 00 | ee oi or ai ur oa ch qu ur ow Cai OL | ST Trace the graphemes and say the sounds. ={_) Match the pictures to the graphemes.“2 : : . ‘Ge ar -igh -ng ear -00 00 ee oi or ai ur oa ch qu a foil crown a cow in town Shear that beard! Can you hear that row, dear? The brown owl sits near the tree. Look at that smear of oil on her gown. 1S Read the captions. Which captions are sentences? =Q Match the captions to the pictures. Which two captions do not have a picture? 0 " |ote : “(@ oo ar or ur ow oi Such a row! The owl and the cow, All join in now! Can you hear? It hurts my ears. Such a noise, such a row! They groan and they row. Can you hear it now? c={_) Read the poem, Sound out and blend any words that you do not know. Debbie Hepplewhite’s Top Tips What is blending? For reading (decoding) say the sounds from left to right of the word and blend the sounds to hear the whole word. How to blend: Point under each grapheme (letter or letter group) as you say the sound, then run your finger under the whole word as you say the whole (or blended) word. es foil foil v Sounds and spellings Letters written like this /k/ refer to a sound, not a spelling. eg. /k/as in eat, key, duck Text @ Oxf University Press Phonics Internationa (td 2091 Iigstations © Alex Brchie 2011 ‘The erator fn sie wowkeare the ryinl ceition of Roderic Han Alex ria who resin copyright the charac. Fist published 2011 This edition puss 201 ‘Alzghts cererved, No prt of hs publlestion may te reproduced sed in $Tretneval stem ansmited many form or ty any means ho the $rlor permission in wating of Cul Univety Poss, aNorsoisessres 1098765452 Printed In China by Hing Yip ‘Alsights reserve. Photcopying of this book is prodibite, Tips for spelling (encoding) Soy the word slowly to identify each sound in the word. Use your left hand to tally the individual sounds to your thumb and fingers. Write down the graphemes which are code for each sound you have tallied. -— oo” a TEACHERS: For inspirational bport plu ee resources and eBooks www.oxfordprimary,co.uk yRENTS: | Talp your chila’s reading with essential tips) fun activitles and free 280 qwww.oxfordowl.co.ule » x