The phonic sounds we are going to practice in the next few weeks,  are spelled in many different ways in English. For example, the ‘ar’ sound is spelled differently in these words; calm, father, bath, ask, dance, glass.  Children will encounter these different spellings when reading books.

In Phonics however, we are focussing on reading and writing using these phonemes; ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure and er.

This is because this helps early writers to sound out, read and write words and simple sentences in ways which match their spoken sounds, without support from an adult, which is the goal for the end of Reception Class. We aim for all children to become ‘phonetically fearless’ and to enjoy their reading and writing. The ‘correct’ spellings come later, when the child is a more confident writer. Therefore, please don’t correct spellings if the way that they are written matches the phonic sound that they have learned and can be read by your child and others.      Many thanks for your support in this.

Good Morning, Reception.

Well done for your hard work in Phonics yesterday.

Today, we are going to practice the digraph ‘ar’. A diagraph means two letters together which make one sound.

Practice saying the sound ‘ar’ and making the ‘ar’ action.

Can you sound out and read these words?

Can you sound out and write these words by yourself?

Can you write a sentence by yourself about one of the pictures?

Challenge: Can you think of any more words with the ‘ar’ sound and write them by yourself?

I know that Geraldine the Giraffe is very popular, so here she is learning the ‘ar’ sound too! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXBQDsgRuMo

I am looking forward to hearing all about your phonics today.
Love from Miss Siswick

PRINTABLE VERSION:R Phonics Tuesday

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14 comments on “Reception Daily Phonics: Tuesday

  1. Rocco becci says:

    Rocco enjoyed today’s phonics as it featured his favourite word ‘car’ !
    We concentrated on writing neater which seemed to work

  2. James wrote very neatly.
    The only extra words we found not above or that Geraldine didn’t were:
    1. star
    2. start
    3. cart
    4. fart (!!!!)

  3. Philippa says:

    Good morning!
    We read the words on our own. We wrote down the words for the pictures, had a hard time guessing the tart one… needed a little bit of help. We did a sentence: the car is on the the road.
    We also came up with the words: art, jar, star, carpet and arm.
    As always we loved Geraldine.
    We sent you a picture!

  4. Florence says:

    The wood is hard.

    Perfect spelling today! Hooray!

  5. Good morning

    Ryan read all the words with ease and enjoyed writing today. He wrote three sentences:

    I don’t lic (like) sitting in the car
    The car was on the hous (house)
    The tart was in the shop

  6. Good morning!
    Theo did his work!
    will send photo soon

  7. Maya was comfortable with the ‘ar’ sound. She came up with ‘party’, ‘art’, ‘Martin’. We will send a photo.

    She read ‘Jack’ and didn’t need any help.

  8. Amber Jackson says:

    Amber read everything and copied all correctly. Her words and sentence as follows:
    dark, arm and jar
    The tart has red, oring and yelowe culers.
    We have sent a photo

  9. Hi, Marcus managed to think up 6 words on his own and wrote a couple of sentences, good spelling today! We sent a photo..

  10. Ruby-Mae says:

    Hello, Ruby-Mae find easy to write and read those words. She find difficult the word farmyard.

  11. Miss Siswick says:

    Well done, everyone. I am sorry for the late reply but I am at school today. Love from Miss Siswick.

  12. Chiara Boldrini says:

    Good afternoon, chiara could sound and write the words.
    she found Marc, mark and carpet

  13. Hello,
    Nico thought of these words: far, star, marker

  14. Miss Siswick says:

    You all came up with lots more ‘ar’ words today. Well done, everyone.

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