Reading with your child at home is one of the most impactful ways to support their literacy development. While we provide a strong foundation for phonics and reading in the classroom, your involvement at home is equally crucial in helping your children build confidence and fluency with reading.
Reading together gives your child the opportunity to practice the phonics skills they are learning at school. This consistent practice helps them recognise letter sounds, blend words and improve their reading accuracy. Listening to stories and discussing their meaning also helps to develop children's vocabulary, language skills and their ability to express their ideas clearly.
Sharing books with your children can spark their imagination and foster a lifelong love for reading. It makes reading a fun and enjoyable activity, rather than a chore, helping them to develop a positive attitude towards learning.
Your involvement makes a world of difference in your child's phonics journey and overall literacy development. Together, we can help them grow into confident, enthusiastic readers. Thank you for your continued support!
At Sutton, we understand that every child learns at their own pace and in their own way. Phonics is a vital part of early reading development and we are committed to ensuring that each child has a personalised and effective learning experience. We recognise that no two learners are the same and so our supporting resources are tailored to meet the individual needs of each child. While some children may progress quickly with letter sounds and blending, others may take a little more time to build confidence and mastery. Our phonics program is designed to help children build strong foundations in reading, while allowing them the flexibility to grow at a pace that suits them.
These useful guides will help you to support the pronunciation of each sound that your child will be learning at school.
Tricky words are words that cannot be easily decoded (sounded out and read). This is because some sounds in the words are sounded out in an unusual way. It is important for children to know these words because they are very common in English.
It is a national requirement that children have a Phonics Screening Check towards the end of Year 1, to check their phonics decoding skills. Your child will be asked to read 40 words, made up of 20 real words and 20 'alien words' (made up words). Below is a link to a document which will provide you with useful information regarding the Phonics Screening Check.