Read, Write, Inc
15.1.13
Speed sound chart
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English language has 44 speech sounds
5 vowel letters but 20 vowel sounds
F is spelt f, ff and ph
English has the most complicated code in the
World
• To make reading and writing easier for
children, Read, Write, Inc phonics starts with a
simple code so children learn one way to read
and write each of the 44 speech sounds.
http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/r
wi/transformingprogrammes/
• It is important to ensure we are all using the
pure sounds. This will help the children to
acquire these skills quicker and without
confusion.
• Play –MTYT
• Learning a new sound
• Picture morphs into a sound. Picture helps
them remember sound and how to write it
Fred Talk
• Children need to be able to hear and blend
before they can read
• Need to be able to segment before they can
spell.
• Copy blending -> independently blending
• Magnetic letters – push together words
• Green words
• Red words
Ditties
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Read the speed sounds on front cover
Partners -1 copy of the Ditty and 1 pointing stick
Point, help, praise
Read red and green words
Work with partner to read the ditty 1 pointing
other decoding
• Read over and over 1st time decoding, 2nd for
meaning and comprehension, 3rd story voice
Ditties
• Re read the ditty and discuss the questions to talk
about
• Set the context
• Build a sentence orally
• Popcorn ideas
• Hold a sentence
• Fred fingers to spell the words
• Demonstrate how to write the sentence, leaving
finger spaces help with red words
Speech sounds
ch sh n p o h t i r m f s a c
hot chips from the shop
a can of pop from the shops
hot chips and pop
mmmmm
Storybooks
• Need to know speed sounds before move onto
the books
• Review the sounds practise reading the words.
• Introduce the story, emphasising new vocabulary
so aware of all the words before asked to read
them.
• Read story 3 times
• Writing – encoding activities, language
comprehension activities to develop composition
Get Writing activities
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Fred Rhythms
Fred fingers
Spelling check
Spelling test
Hold a sentence
Build a sentence
Edit for spelling and punctuation
Write a composition based on picture prompts
Write a guided composition
To build the bridge between reading
and writing
• Bubbles – feeling, saying, thinking, happening
• Develop language, understanding, thinking
around the story
• Punctuation mimes (when reading to your
child exaggerate the way you are reading to
emphasise the punctuation point it out to
them.)