Reading
Each week your child will come home with a library book. During their time at Nursery our aim is for children to develop a love for rhymes and stories. Much of the work that we complete in reading supports this aim. We will introduce a non word reading book to the children that they will bring home. We would love for you to read this with your children, encouraging them to tell the story.
Phonics – Little Wandle
All children participate in two daily phonics lessons, learning how to read and write letters and words. The children are grouped according to their ability. Children start with Phase 1 in Nursery. Please ensure that at home, you are referring to letters by their sounds initially, and not their names.
The children will learn rhyming words, starting sounds of words, letter sounds, how to segment words (using “robot arms”) in order to spell e.g. “cat can be broken up in to c…a…t” and how to blend sounds together in order to read, e.g. “p…i…g says ‘pig’”
There are lots of fun games that you can play at home.
Writing
Initially we encourage children to mark make and give meaning to their marks. We also encourage the children to hold a pencil correctly. By the end of Nursery we expect children to be able to write their own name.
Follow the link for Phonics Jargon Buster