Star Readers and Red Words!

Congratulations to all our star readers in Reception!

These children have been very busy reading at home. Indianna received her bronze star reader award. Riley L, Courtney, Amelie, Harvy, Lilly, Aaliyah and Tiren have received their bookmark for reading 25 books. 

Well done to Elise-Rose, Mia and Iniya who has received their silver star reader award. There are also a few children waiting to receive their chosen books for reading 75 books.

Your child should have brought home a sheet of red words recently (please let your class teacher know if they did not). In the RWI phonics scheme red words are used to help children recognise the fact some words are more difficult to read, because they cannot ‘Fred talk’ them in the normal way. Your child needs to be able to recognise these red words on sight so that they become a confident and fluent reader. Some words are only ‘red’ words until your child has learnt that sound. Please practice reading these words by sight with your child when you read at home.  Here is a little saying to help you remember: 'You can't Fred a red!'. Once your child has mastered these red words, we will send home another set. 

Here are a few ideas to help you!

• You could take turns to read the red words - my turn, your turn. 
• You could practice reading these words in and out of order.
• You could talk about the sounds in the word that make it tricky. Eg. in the word 'was', the 'a' sound is the tricky bit because it makes the sound 'o'. 
• You could cover them up and remove the item to reveal the word. 
• You could turn the red words into a game: chop up the words and place them all face down on the table, take turns to pick a word. Can you read the word to collect the card, if not it goes back down on to the table. The person with the most red words at the end is the winner. 

Good luck and keep reading!