One of the most important things you can do to help your child to learn and do well at school is to read with them at home. As a parent, you have a very important role to play in helping your child to develop a love and enthusiasm for reading and supporting them to practise and consolidate the phonics skills taught in school.
Why is reading with your child so important?
- Parents who engage their children in books prepare them to become committed and enthusiastic readers: they can transform their attitudes to reading.
- Children learn to focus and share the enjoyment of the story; they learn how stories start and finish, and how a plot unravels and is resolved.
- Reading a range of stories and non-fiction texts
- Helps children learn new vocabulary.
- Gives children opportunities to develop their speaking and listening skills.
- Enables children to talk about stories and share their ideas about what has been read.
- Gives children the skills they need to understand other areas of the school curriculum such as maths and science.
- Develops children’s understanding of the world around them and other people.
How can you help at home?
There are many ways you can assist your child’s learning outside of school. Below you can find a selection of resources to help you support your child to practise their phonics skills at home.
Summer Holiday Virtual Classroom Links
The children will have access to the RWI virtual classroom via the links saved in the documents below. They can continue to practise and consolidate their phonics knowledge and skills at home over the holidays. Open the appropriate document for your child and click on the links to access the virtual classroom video.
1. Speed Sound films for your child to review sounds they know and learn previously taught sounds they are unsure of. Set 1, Set 2, Set 3
2. Red Word films (Words the children are not able to decode using Fred Talk)
3. Word time (Reading words)
4. Reading longer words films.
Happy Reading, have a wonderful Summer!
Red Words
Set 1 Word Time
Set 2 Sounds
Set 3 Sounds
Set 3 Sounds- Reading Longer Words
Please see the links for some useful websites below:
Links to pages
Parent guide to Read Write Inc. Phonics – Oxford Owl
(152) Films for Parents and Carers – YouTube
Individual Video Links – Ordered
(152) Parent video: Why read to your child? – YouTube
(152) Parent video: 10 things to think about when you read to your child – YouTube
(152) Parent video: Understanding Phonics – YouTube
(152) Parent video: What is Read Write Inc Phonics – YouTube
(152) Parent video: How to say the sounds – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Reading the stretchy sounds with your child – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Reading the bouncy sounds with your child – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Sound blending – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Spelling – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Handwriting – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Reading the digraphs with your child – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Reading the Set 3 sounds and words with your child – YouTube
(154) Parent video: Spelling Set 3 words with your child – YouTube