Super Sounds - Phonics and Spelling

 Each week we regularly start our reading sessions with Super Sounds. This is where students learn about different phonemes (sounds), digraphs (two letters to make one sound, e.g. ll in in still or 'kn' in knit), and trigraphs (three letters to make one sounds, e.g. tch in witch). We usually focus on one phoneme each week. This is one part of our literacy programme. After our super sound sessions, we move into other literacy learning such as guided reading sessions with the teacher and shared reading activities.

In Super Sounds, we practise blending and segmenting words, 'roboting' the words. This is where students sound out the word on the card and then put it back together. This practice really helps students to identify the individual sounds in words which also helps when they are reading books. When we come across words we're not sure of at home, you could by 'roboting' the word to try work it out!

After we have practised blending and segmenting the words. We do a quick fire round by reading the words without sounding them out.

Next, we practise writing some words that have the phoneme of the week in it and then write a silly sentence using some of those words. This is a great time for us to also focus on our letter formation! Win, win!

After we have learnt about lots of different phonemes, digraphs and trigraphs, we move onto spelling patterns and spelling rules. We might learn about the spelling rules including 'ed' and 'ing' such as when to double the consonant when adding 'ed' or 'ing' or when we should drop the 'e' when adding 'ed' or 'ing'. There are many spelling rules in the English language!