Phonics at Home
Help Your Child with Letters and Sounds
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 2020
128 pages
978-1-4729-5514-2 (ISBN)
Description
Chosen as one of the best homeschooling books to educate kids during lockdown by The Independent.
The perfect guide for helping your child with phonics, containing over 40 fun, multi-sensory games and activities to bring phonics to life in the home environment. Phonics at Home helps parents get to grips with letters and sounds and complements any phonics scheme already used in primary schools. Whether you are home schooling or simply looking for fun activities to keep your child engaged in learning, this is the number one resource for teaching reading, writing and spelling at home.
Kate Robinson uses her wealth of experience as a teacher and trainer to demystify phonics with clear explanations of related terminology and step-by-step instructions to help parents and children make the most of every activity. What's more, the easy-to-play games work with any phonics scheme - it doesn't matter which scheme the school is using - and use items found around the house.
Aimed at Key Stage 1 and early Key Stage 2 children, this practical book is ideal for all parents keen to support their child's reading and spelling development at home.
The perfect guide for helping your child with phonics, containing over 40 fun, multi-sensory games and activities to bring phonics to life in the home environment. Phonics at Home helps parents get to grips with letters and sounds and complements any phonics scheme already used in primary schools. Whether you are home schooling or simply looking for fun activities to keep your child engaged in learning, this is the number one resource for teaching reading, writing and spelling at home.
Kate Robinson uses her wealth of experience as a teacher and trainer to demystify phonics with clear explanations of related terminology and step-by-step instructions to help parents and children make the most of every activity. What's more, the easy-to-play games work with any phonics scheme - it doesn't matter which scheme the school is using - and use items found around the house.
Aimed at Key Stage 1 and early Key Stage 2 children, this practical book is ideal for all parents keen to support their child's reading and spelling development at home.
Reviews / Votes
Phonics is what our children are learning at primary school - and this book helps parents to carry on the good work at home. There are a number of different phonics schemes, but this book works with any of them, so parents needn't worry about inadvertently going off the curriculum. * The Independent *More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Target group
Children/juvenile
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-5514-2 (9781472955142)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
02/2020
Bloomsbury Education
€13.00
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Persons
Kate Robinson has been working in education for over 25 years. In that time, she has gained extensive experience as a writer, consultant, manager and teacher. She has specialised in the areas of English, maths and family learning. Her key aim is to make learning fun through practical, multi-sensory games and activities that capture the imagination and inspire learning. Kate has also worked as a consultant supporting educational providers to improve their practice and as a teacher trainer for prospective teachers and learning support assistants.
Sarah Hoyle is an illustrator living and working in between the dreamy spires of Oxford, UK. She has always loved drawing, especially creating characters and scenes because she thinks people are endlessly fascinating and entertaining.
Sarah Hoyle is an illustrator living and working in between the dreamy spires of Oxford, UK. She has always loved drawing, especially creating characters and scenes because she thinks people are endlessly fascinating and entertaining.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- How to use this book
- What is phonics and how does it work?
- Phonics for reading
- Phonics for spelling
- What are phonemes and graphemes?
- How children are taught phonics
- 1. Hearing individual sounds
- 2. Hearing sounds in spoken words
- 3. Splitting spoken words into sounds and blending sounds into spoken words
- 4. Matching sounds and letters
- 5. Reading or spelling words
- How words are built - vowels and consonants
- Order in which words are introduced
- Tricky words and non-phonics-based methods
- Games
- How to choose and use the games
- Games for hearing sounds
- What's in the box?
- Our kitchen band
- Mirror my sound song
- Story sound effects
- The whisper chain
- Games for hearing sounds in words
- Find me a match
- Where's the pair?
- Sneaky sound sets
- My sounds scrapbook
- Fun phonics shopping
- Same sound Sonja and Simon
- Games for splitting words into sounds and blending sounds into words
- Sounds into words
- words into sounds
- Word chain
- Sing the sounds
- Island hopping
- The big, bold action blend
- Games for matching sounds and letters
- Match the letter
- Perfect pairs
- Lovely large letters
- Making graphemes
- Terribly tickly letters
- Letters of the week
- Write the letter
- Hidden letters
- The grapheme twist
- The grapheme monster chase
- The grapheme stepping stones
- Games for reading and spelling words
- Plate of words
- The skittle alley word build
- Word match
- Lots of lovely ladder words
- Lollipop stick word build
- Build words on pictures
- Grapheme stick man
- Twisting towers
- Sentence spies
- Cut and swap
- Sentence builder
- Further games for tricky or difficult words
- Feel and read
- Lovely large words
- Feel and write
- Wordplay
- Get the meaning, fill the gap
- Look, say, trace, cover, write
- Sound List
- Word List
- List of Suffixes
- Glossary
- References
