So what’s the correct and more effective way of teaching reading in the early years?
Helping children understand the letter sounds system and how it comes together to make words and build sentences is a sure way to go.
1+ to 2+
Loads of letter sounds rhymes
Listening to environmental sounds
Doing different movements with sounds
2+ to 3+
- Sing the sound song, say the story in their own way and demonstrate the action
**Say the sound - Identify the sound
** Know words that begins with the sound
** Write the sounds
3+ to 4+
- Group 1( s a t i p n)
say the sound, demonstrate the action, write the sounds, know words that begin with the sound, match pictures with words having the sound, blend CVC words, count the sounds in a CVC words and take dictation of just individual letter sounds
** Group 2 ( ck e h r m n d)
say the sound, demonstrate the action, write the sounds, know words that begin with the sound, match pictures with words having the sound, blend CVC words, count the sounds in a CVC words and take dictation of just individual letter sounds. Simple sentence building
- Red Level Tricky word list
Look, Copy, Cover, Write and Check
** Group 3 ( g o u l f b)
say the sound, demonstrate the action, write the sounds, know words that begin with the sound, match pictures with words having the sound, blend CVC words, count the sounds in a CVC words and take dictation of just individual letter sounds. Simple sentence building and reading
*** Yellow level Tricky word list
*** Group 4 (ai j oa ie ee or)
say the sound, demonstrate the action, write the sounds, know words that begin with the sound, match pictures with words having the sound, blend CVC words, count the sounds in a CVC words and take dictation of just individual letter sounds. Simple sentence building and reading.
** Group 5 (z w ng v little oo long oo)
say the sound, demonstrate the action, write the sounds, know words that begin with the sound, match pictures with words having the sound, blend CVC words, count the sounds in a CVC words and take dictation of just individual letter sounds. Simple sentence building and reading.
**** Green level tricky words list
4+ to 5+
*Group 6 ( y x ch sh voiced th unvoiced th)
say the sound, demonstrate the action, write the sounds, know words that begin with the sound, match pictures with words having the sound, blend CVCC words, count the sounds in a CVC words and take dictation of CVC words. Simple sentence building.
** Blue level tricky word list
** Group 7 ( qu ou oi ue er ar)
say the sound, demonstrate the action, write the sounds, know words that begin with the sound, match pictures with words having the sound, blend CVC words, count the sounds in a CVC words and take dictation of just individual letter sounds. Simple sentence building and reading. Sentence writing.
*** Purple level Tricky word list
** Word Families
at, ad, ake, ag etc. At least 20 word families.
Sentence building and reading. Sentence writing.
*** Beginning blends
Bl, fl, Sl, Br etc
**** Ending blends
ing, sion, tion etc
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Oluwaseun Oduola
EYTA
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