School aged children are often sent home with ‘Sight Words.’ This usually happens when children are in kindergarten or Reception, aged between 4-5. When sight words are mentioned, the term can be understood to mean different things, which can be problematic. Let’s have a look at how ‘sight words’ are interpreted. Words that are not […]
When teaching your child to read using a phonics based approach, it is important to provide them with words to read that they have already learned the sound-symbol correspondence for. This means you teach the speech sound and match it to the letter/s that represent the sound. E.g. after teaching the sounds /m/ /a/
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The awareness of sounds and the development of language are the foundations for reading skills for most children. Understanding that sounds of speech (or phonemes) relate to a specific letter or letters of the alphabet create a pathway for children to learn to read and write. At Rooted in Sounds, learning each speech sound begins
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