Term 2
Going on a Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen performs ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’
Starfall – great website to practise reading
Revise your Letter Sounds here!
The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
Term 1 Games
POP! – match the sound to the letter
Term 1 Resources
Handwriting
Is your child writing their letters back to front, or having difficulty forming them correctly? Here is a link to an online course that shows how to form letters correctly. It is $9 for the full course, however if you are just after how to write tricky letters such as ‘d’, then scroll down and you can see previews for some letters that show how to actually form the letter correctly.
Reading Strategies:
Is your child focussing using a range of strategies when working out tricky words in their reading? Click on the link below for a set of posters that I use in the classroom:
- Skippy Frog (reading on – skip the word and continue reading, then come back to figure it out using the context, sentence structure, initial sound)
- Eagle Eye (look at the pictures to give clues)
- Tryin’ Lion (reread the sentence to use the context to figure out the word)
- Lips the Fish (use the initial sound to help you predict what the word should be)
- Flippy Dolphin (after sounding out, change the sound that the vowel makes to make a real word e.g. come)
- Stretchy Snake (sounding out)
- Chunky Monkey (find a smaller part you know, chunk into syllables or sound chunks e.g. today)
Games that Support the English Curriculum:
Some may be tricky
1. Phonic Fighter – Great for learning the sounds letters make
2. CVC Pop – reading and spelling simple 3 letter words
3. Phoneme Pop
5. Poop-Deck Pirates (identifying real words and made up words)
The Magic Key Adventures are games that aim to help students learn the basics of reading and writing including full stops, capital letters, questions and sentence formation.