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Reception to Year 2 -
Year 3 to Year 4 - Catch Up
Year 5 to Year 6 - Fresh Start
Set 1 Sounds
Stretch: f l m n r s v z
Bounce: b c k d g h j p Qu t w x y x a e i o u
Special Friends: sh ch th ng nk
Phonics
“ s t a m p” - overlap word
“ m a t” “mat” - point and sweep
Spellings
Use your friend fingers
“Dog” → 3 Fred fingers
Point and sweep.
Set 2 sounds
Ay, ee, igh, ow
Set 3 sounds
Ire, ear, ure
2 Paraphrases;
1) Good reading
2) Good comprehension
Accuracy
- Prepare children to read the book
- Practice keywords
- Can you read accurately?
Speed
- Repeat words
- Can you read with speed?
Comprehension
- Understanding the story
Speed Write
1) Say and write ‘m-a-t-s’ Choose sound to review.
2) Say the sound while they write
Learning to Blend
1) Blending orally without speed sound cards
- Say the sound first
- ‘m-a-t ‘ pause. So children can say whole word
- If they can say the sound and followed by whole word (mt-yt)
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2) Blending with speed sound cards
- Say ‘mat’ clearly (mt-yt) Orally.
- Children say sound when placed on board.
- Point up to sounds with finger and say ‘m-a-t, mat’ (repeat) oral blending, practice on
board.
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3) Blending with magnetic sound cards
- Put speed sounds at the bottom of board (5 sounds only)
- Make word ‘mat’
- Point to sounds with finger and repeat
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Assessment
- Put speed sounds in chart
- Point and sweep your finger under the word
- Children then say sound and then read the worf
- Once they are confident, move on to blending words independently. If not
then repeat until confident.
Blending independently
1. Read the Phonics Green Words: ‘Special Friends’, ‘Fred Talk’, read word
- Show the word first
- Find special friends
- Fred talk word
- Read word
- Give definition then say word again
Reading Assessment
1) Find Special Friends
2) Then read whole word
Partner Practise
Speed Sounds-
- Adult models how to do partner practise
- Partner 1 teaches sounds
- Partner 2 repeats
- MT-YT
- Note sounds if need more practise
- Repeat/switch partners
Red Words-
- Use finger (partner 1) points at word
- Partner 2 reads word (repeat)
- Read and point words out of order
- Switch partners.
- NO MT-YT
- Speedy read. If an error go back to the first one on the line.
Story Introduction
- Introduce story
- Get them to engage in the story
- Explain a few words
- Use expressions
- Ask questions about story
- TTYP (talk to your partner) to discuss question
- Select 2 pairs to give feedback
Teacher- Preparation
- Prepare green and red words that are in the back
- Use pictures
- Stack green words but spread red words
- Read story before reading to the children
- Read the story the same every time with the same expressions etc.
- Prepare sticky notes e.g. think about the story, build a sentence
Partner Practise
Speedy Green Words
- Repeat as before, but increase the speed
- Reduce Fred talk
Red Words
- Children say words as you increase speed
Jump-in
- Read the story but hesitate on a word so they can jump-in
- Read aloud the hesitated word
Have a Think
- Get children to think e.g. why does he say “Biff Biff?”
- TTYP- Discussion about the question and why they think it
Writing Activities
Hold a Sentence
1) Say the sentence to children
2) “He is on his ship”
3) Children repeat the sentence until confident (MT-YT)
4) Use Fred fingers/punctuations
5) Re-read sentence
6) Hide sentence
7) After they have finished, display sentence then mark
Proof-read
Correcting errors
- Display sentence on board with the errors
- Read aloud
- Get them to spot errors
- Feedback
- Hide sentence and get them to correct
- Then write sentence correctly then mark as whole class
Write About…
- Explain a ‘wanted poster’
- Ask questions
- TTYP- What has he done?
- Description of character- TTYP
- Feedback
- Demonstrate MT-YT
- Write idea down (whole class)
- They will build a sentence then they write it
- Keep saying sentence until memorised in head
- Say sentence aloud to partner before writing
Ditties
1) Know set 1 sounds focus on special friends
2) Word time words
3) Alien words
4) Read ditty green words
5) Practise red words
6) Partner Practise
7) Read ditty story
8) Partner Practise
9) Adult reads book aloud
10) Jump-in
11) Hold a sentence
Special friends, Fred talk and read word (teach 10 red words)
Reading Activities
Story Green Words
Multi-syllabic words
- Fold card
- Get them to read first word then ending
- Then read whole word
- MT-YT (unfold)
- Repeat
- Fred talk if needed
Writing Activities
Fred Fingers- Spelling Green Words
‘Night’
- Say word, children repeat
- Show fingers, repeat word
- Pinch fingers as they say sounds
- Write words
Spell Check
Yellow, Grey and Blue books only
1) Choose and say 1 of red/green words then cover up word
2) Help their partners to write the word
3) Look back at the listed word (tick and correct word)
Spell Test
1) Choose and say one red/green word
2) Say word aloud and ask to write
Grammar
1) Remind them that a noun phrase is a group of words that has a noun as it’s main
word, with other words telling us more about the word
2) Write on board- “he is a bad dog” MT-YT
Vocabulary
- Children need to widen their knowledge
- Which word means the same as ‘grabbed’?
- If unsure explain meaning of word (s)
Partner Practise
- Remind children of proof reading
- Share responses
- Capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
Words to Keep
1) Re-read writing
2) Select words they are most pleased with
3) Choose 4 favourite words