How is Early Reading and Phonics taught at St Mary's?

Please see the link below to the Essential Letters and Sounds website for information on how you can support your child at home.

Please see the link below to the video resource centre where you will find the videos of the pure sounds we teach.

Graphemes and Rhymes which will support spelling and writing:

How can I help at home?

Practising the sounds

You can help your child practise the sounds they have been learning at school - these can be found above. Then, you can show these to your child along with the picture to help them remember.

Reading decodable books

Your child will bring home reading books with words that use the sounds they have been learning in school. You may hear these reading books called ‘decodable books’. Use the prompts inside the front and back covers to enjoy the book together and help your child practise reading.

By reading and re-reading texts both in school and at home we offer children the opportunity to develop a cohesive orthographic map of the words within our language. This in turn helps to build their reading fluency. The more you can read at home with your child, the better. We ask that children read the decodable reader they bring home at least three times during the week.