Visit the Read, Write, Inc parents information page which includes a series of information and tutorial videos explaining the basis of the Read, Write, Inc. method, including how to say the sounds and the phonics screening check.
Other Resources:
There are many great websites and apps to help support phonics learning at home. Here are some of our favourites:
www.phonicsplay.co.uk – Buried Treasure, Dragons Den, Obb and Bob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2Ddf_0Om8 – help with pronunciation
http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html
Guidance notes and resources to support your child with Phonics and the Phonics Screening Check
Phonics Vocabulary
Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound. There are approximately 44 phonemes in English (it depends on different accents). Phonemes can be put together to make words.
Grapheme – A way of writing down a phoneme. Graphemes can be made up from 1 letter e.g. p, 2 letters e.g. sh, 3 letters e.g. tch or 4 letters e.g ough.
GPC – This is short for Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa.
Digraph – A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound (phoneme).
Trigraph – A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound (phoneme).
Blending – This involves looking at a written word, looking at each grapheme and using knowledge of GPCs to work out which phoneme each grapheme represents and then merging these phonemes together to make a word.
Segmenting – This involves hearing a word, splitting it up into the phonemes (sound talk/sounding out) that make it, using knowledge of GPCs to work out which graphemes represent those phonemes and then writing those graphemes down in the right order.
Alien words – These are ‘made up’ words which test children’s knowledge of known phonemes.