d’Auvergne 2014/15
Introduction
Read Write Inc. is a structured phonics program to teach reading
and spelling. It has three main elements:
1) Speed Sounds Sets 1, 2 and 3
2) Ditties and storybooks
3) ‘Get writing’ books
More on Speed sounds
During the Speed Sounds set 1, 2 and 3 children will
learn:
 44 sounds
 To read words using sound blending
 To write the letters/letter groups which
represent the 44 sounds.
 Learn to write words by saying the sounds and
graphemes.
Meet Fred!
 Fred can only speak in sounds!
 Fred Talk - reading
 Fred Fingers -spelling
 Pure Sounds ... c-a-t not ‘cuh’ ‘a’ ‘tuh’
Speed sounds set 1
Stretchy consonants
fff
lll
mmm
nnn
rrr
sss
vvv
zzz
sshh
tthh
nng
(thing)
Avoid saying the ‘uh’!!
Bouncy consonants
c-c-c
Avoid saying ‘cuh’ ‘tuh’
h-h-h
p-p-p
t-t-t
ch-ch-ch
Speed sounds set 2
Fred’s vowel sounds
The English language can be very confusing because
there are only five vowel letters (a,e,i,o,u) but
twenty vowel sounds.
a
apple
ay
may I
play?
air
that’s
not fair
ee
e
egg
o
orange
u
umbrella
ow
oo
oo
ar
or
blow
the
snow
poo at
the zoo
look at
a book
Start
the car
shut
the
door
ure
igh
what do fly high
you
see?
ir
ou
whirl and
twirl
i
insect
shout it
out
oy
ire
toy for a fire fire!
boy
ear
hear
with
your ear
Sure it’s
pure
Speed sounds set 3
 So far the children will have learned one
grapheme for each sound. They will be able to
read using these sounds and can spell words using
these sounds.
 They will now be able to learn more ways of
writing the same sounds. Children will be taught
the names of the letters at this stage.
 Letter names will now be used for spelling because
children will be learning alternative graphemes for
the same sound.
Green and Red words
 Green words are words made up of graphemes from
the charts. They are called green because once
children have learned these graphemes, they can read
and go!
 Red words are common words that contain graphemes
that are not found in the charts e.g. Said, want, the,
would. They are called Red because children may have
to stop and think about these words, because they
cannot easily read the words by sound-blending.
Home Readers
Home readers. Each week your child will bring home
a Read Write Inc. folder. This will contain:
 The book they have been reading this week during
RWInc.
 A letter about how to use and care for the book.
 A teaching stick
The folder should be kept in their book bags and
returned to school every day as groups may work
on a story for different durations.
Hot-listers wanted!
 If you are able to help for the last ten minutes of
the school day please put your name down with
Mrs Le Moignan.