Helpful phonics vocab:

digraph- 2 letters that make 1 sound e.g. 'ay'

trigraph- 3 letters that make 1 sound e.g. 'ear'

Helpful reading vocab:

Segment- break a word down into its sounds e.g. 'b-r-ea-d' has 4 sounds.

Blend- blend all the sounds together and just say the word e.g. 'bread'.

Whisper blend- same as above (segment then blend) but whispered to encourage fluency.

Blend in your head- children know these sounds and need to fluently read them now without segmenting.

These are the sounds children learn at school. Under each section, it tells you the main grapheme (written sound) for each phoneme (sound). Underneath, it also tells you the alternative sounds (the other graphemes that also make that sound).  

Please remind your children to think about alternative sounds when reading or writing.

These are words that children need to be able to read and write by the end of Year 2.