d’Auvergne 2014/15

IntroductionRead Write Inc. is a structured phonics program to teach

reading and spelling. It has three main elements:

1) Speed Sounds Sets 1, 2 and 3

2) Ditties and storybooks

3) ‘Get writing’ books

During the Speed Sounds set 1, 2 and 3 children will learn:

44 soundsTo read words using sound blending To write the letters/letter groups which

represent the 44 sounds.Learn to write words by saying the sounds

and graphemes.

More on Speed sounds

Meet Fred!

Fred can only speak in sounds!Fred Talk - readingFred Fingers -spellingPure Sounds ... c-a-t not ‘cuh’ ‘a’ ‘tuh’

Avoid saying the ‘uh’!!

Bouncy consonants

Avoid saying ‘cuh’ ‘tuh’

fff lll mmm

nnn rrr sss vvv zzz sshh tthh nng(thin

g)

Stretchy consonants

c-c-c h-h-h p-p-p t-t-t ch-ch-ch

Speed sounds set 1

Fred’s vowel soundsThe English language can be very confusing

because there are only five vowel letters (a,e,i,o,u) but twenty vowel sounds.

aapple

eegg

iinsect

oorange

uumbrell

a

ay

may I play?

ee

what do you see?

igh

fly high

ow

blow the

snow

oo

poo at the zoo

oo

look at a book

ar

Start the car

or

shut the

door

air

that’s not fair

ir

whirl and twirl

ou

shout it out

oy

toy for a boy

ire

fire fire!

ear

hear with your ear

ure

Sure it’s

pure

Speed sounds set 2

Speed sounds set 3So far the children will have learned one

grapheme for each sound. They will be able to read using these sounds and can spell words using these sounds.

They will now be able to learn more ways of writing the same sounds. Children will be taught the names of the letters at this stage.

Letter names will now be used for spelling because children will be learning alternative graphemes for the same sound.

Green and Red wordsGreen words are words made up of graphemes from

the charts. They are called green because once children have learned these graphemes, they can read and go!

Red words are common words that contain graphemes that are not found in the charts e.g. Said, want, the, would. They are called Red because children may have to stop and think about these words, because they cannot easily read the words by sound-blending.

Home ReadersHome readers. Each week your child will bring

home a Read Write Inc. folder. This will contain:

The book they have been reading this week during RWInc.

A letter about how to use and care for the book.A teaching stick

The folder should be kept in their book bags and returned to school every day as groups may work on a story for different durations.

Hot-listers wanted!If you are able to help for the last ten minutes

of the school day please put your name down with Mrs Le Moignan.