Devonshire Infant School

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Devonshire Infant School

Our Vision: To be an outstanding school, where all our children develop a lifelong love of learning.

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Remote Learning

 

English

        

Reading

To support your child with reading try the following websites!

 

Oxford Owl

 

Oxford Owl is an online resource that has a variety of ebooks which your children can access at home as well as at school. This can be through listening to the books whilst following the text, or reading them independently.
Each class can access the ebooks on www.oxfordowl.co.uk by logging onto ‘My class login’ at the top of the page using the following information:

Year R/Owls.............. Username: dev r                     Password: 1234

Squirrels.................... Username: dev squirrels        Password: 1234

Hedgehogs................ Username: dev hedgehogs    Password: 1234

Badgers..................... Username: dev badgers         Password: 1234

Foxes......................... Username: dev foxes             Password: 1234

 

Learning to Read, Literacy, Key Stage 1

A wonderful guided reading story with accompanying printable worksheets and guided reading discussion sheets. There are 80 interactive literacy games.

Click here for site

 

Literacy - ICT Games

Objective: To read words with known spelling patterns. .... This is not so much a reading activity, rather more a starting point for discussion.

 Click here for site

 

BBC - KS1 Bitesize

Fun activities to help children at KS1 learn more about Literacy.

 Click here for site

 

Spelling

Spelling Games

Year R

Word List

Year 1

Word List

Year 2

Word List

Phonics

 

There has been a huge shift in the past few years in how we teach reading in school. This is having a big impact in helping many children learn to read and spell. At Devonshire, we use the Jolly Phonics scheme as the core of our teaching strategy.

 

What is phonics and why is it so important?

Phonics is recommended as the first strategy that children should be taught in helping them learn to read. It runs alongside other teaching methods such as Guided Reading and Shared Reading to help children develop all the other vital reading skills and hopefully give them a real love of reading.

 

What is Jolly Phonics?

Jolly Phonics is a fun and child-centred approach to teaching letter sounds through synthetic phonics. With actions for each of the 42 letter sounds, the multi-sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers, who can see their students achieve.

 

Letter Sound Order

The sounds are taught in a specific order (not alphabetically). This enables children to begin building words as early as possible.

The letter sounds are split into seven groups as shown below.

 

How does Jolly Phonics work?

Using a synthetic phonics approach, Jolly Phonics teaches children the five key skills for reading and writing. Complemented by Jolly Readers and Jolly Grammar, it provides a thorough foundation for teaching literacy over three years in school.

The order of sounds and blends we teach:

1. Learning the letter sounds - Children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai         and ue.

2. Learning letter formation - Using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters.

3. Blending - Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.

4. Identifying the sounds in words (Segmenting) - Listening for the sounds in words gives children the best start for improving spelling.

5. Tricky words - Tricky words have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.

 

Visit the Jolly Learning website for more information about phonics and for details about resources which you might like to purchase to help you child at home.

 
  The video below explains how to make the pure sounds of each letter. Knowing how to make these sounds will help you to help your child at home:  

Please click the link below for Phonics Play

To log in to Phonics Play use the following:

Username.............jan21

Password..............home

Springboard have provided us with some vocabulary video clips and worksheets which might help Y2's in preparation this term for their transitions for juniors.

Click here

Letters and sounds