Level 0
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Lessons for sounds /u/ to /z/
1. Warm Up Activity
Every day, continue to go through the flashcards of the initial sounds taught and say the ALPHABET RHYME, stopping at the letter that was last taught, ready to learn a new one.
Put more emphasis now upon strengthening any sounds that are weak. Do not worry about letter names, only SOUNDS.
Put more emphasis now upon strengthening any sounds that are weak. Do not worry about letter names, only SOUNDS.
Teaching notes:
- It is still quite alright if you say the letter name and your child supplies the sound - even to the end of the alphabet and beyond. The sound is the main thing the child MUST learn. At this stage we are only making the children aware of letter names with no emphasis on them. The child may well learn more names in time as the rhyme is repeated daily.
- Similarly, with lower and upper case letters. We teach both, but put the main emphasis on the lower case letters as these will be the letters we use to spell in the the next section. So if you only manage to do lower case - that is fine as you can work on upper case letters as they are needed from Level 1 onwards.
2. Learn the new letter sound
Continue to introduce the remaining sounds in the same way as for letters /a/ to /t/.
A word about X.
X rarely starts a word so this is a good time to practise hearing sounds at the end of words... box, fox and six being the most obvious.
X rarely starts a word so this is a good time to practise hearing sounds at the end of words... box, fox and six being the most obvious.
Teaching notes:
- Most children should be beginning at least to hear the initial sounds of words.
- If your child is still not hearing them, then add in more work in this area. Do not do oral blending (below) until the child can accurately give the initial sound.
- If your child CAN hear the initial sound and knows the taught-so-far sounds quite well, then begin oral blending in preparation for CVC Words.
- Be patient as again we are introducing a new skill and this will take some children a while to understand. This is fine, and to be expected. We work hard to help the child understand what is needed, but we go at the pace of the child.
3. Write
Follow the same procedure as for lesson one.
You can continue to use our First Handwriting Book for this purpose.
The formal lesson is over.
You can continue to use our First Handwriting Book for this purpose.
The formal lesson is over.