Read, Write, Inc

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Speed sound chart

• English language has 44 speech sounds• 5 vowel letters but 20 vowel sounds• F is spelt f, ff and ph• English has the most complicated code in the

World• To make reading and writing easier for children,

Read, Write, Inc phonics starts with a simple code so children learn one way to read and write each of the 44 speech sounds.

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• It is important to ensure we are all using the

pure sounds. This will help the children to acquire these skills quicker and without confusion.

• Play –MTYT• Learning a new sound• Picture morphs into a sound. Picture helps

them remember sound and how to write it

Fred Talk

• Children need to be able to hear and blend before they can read

• Need to be able to segment before they can spell.

• Copy blending -> independently blending• Magnetic letters – push together words• Green words• Red words

Ditties

• Read the speed sounds on front cover• Partners -1 copy of the Ditty and 1 pointing stick• Point, help, praise• Read red and green words• Work with partner to read the ditty 1 pointing

other decoding• Read over and over 1st time decoding, 2nd for

meaning and comprehension, 3rd story voice

Ditties

• Re read the ditty and discuss the questions to talk about

• Set the context• Build a sentence orally• Popcorn ideas• Hold a sentence• Fred fingers to spell the words• Demonstrate how to write the sentence, leaving

finger spaces help with red words

Speech sounds ch sh n p o h t i r m f s a c

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Storybooks

• Need to know speed sounds before move onto the books

• Review the sounds practise reading the words.• Introduce the story, emphasising new vocabulary

so aware of all the words before asked to read them.

• Read story 3 times• Writing – encoding activities, language

comprehension activities to develop composition

Get Writing activities

• Fred Rhythms• Fred fingers• Spelling check• Spelling test• Hold a sentence• Build a sentence• Edit for spelling and punctuation• Write a composition based on picture prompts• Write a guided composition

To build the bridge between reading and writing

• Bubbles – feeling, saying, thinking, happening• Develop language, understanding, thinking

around the story• Punctuation mimes (when reading to your

child exaggerate the way you are reading to emphasise the punctuation point it out to them.)